domingo, 3 de julio de 2011

Book Review


Sunday Book Review

‘A World on Fire’

Illustration by Jeffrey Smith
This new history of Britain’s role in the American Civil War examines the battle the Union and the Confederacy waged for English support.
Josh Ritter

‘Bright’s Passage’

In the singer-songwriter Josh Ritter’s first novel, a West Virginia farm boy heeds voices he began hearing in the trenches of World War I.
Norman Thomas, the six-time Socialist Party candidate for president, with his son Billy, circa 1914.

‘Conscience’

Writing about her great-grandfather, the socialist Norman Thomas, Louisa Thomas considers how conscience fares when society deems it subversive.

‘Marriage Confidential’

Pamela Haag examines the phenomenon of marriages that are not unhappy enough to break up, but not exactly happy, either.

‘Paying for It’

In this graphic memoir, Chester Brown gives up on romance and pursues sex with prostitutes.

‘Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics’

A new translation of Aristotle’s “Ethics” addresses the perennial question of well-being.

‘Miss New India’

Bharati Mukherjee’s eighth novel is a kind of parable of the new India.

‘Long Drive Home’

In this novel, a suburban dad accidentally contributes to a fatal accident, and tries to hide his actions.
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‘The End of Anger: A New Generation’s Take on Race and Rage’

A journalist draws on interviews to trace the evolution of race relations in the post-civil-rights era.
Field Marshal Erich von Manstein with German and Romanian troops, 1942.

‘Manstein: Hitler’s Greatest General’

A biography of Erich von Manstein, a general who made Hitler’s military dreams a reality.
Laura Kasischke

‘The Raising’ and ‘Space, in Chains’

In a novel and poems, Laura Kasischke considers college ghostlore, mortality and grief through generations.

Fiction Chronicle

Novels by Banana Yoshimoto, Marcelo Figueras, Helon Habila and Johanna Skibsrud.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS

‘Super Diaper Baby 2’

The second graphic novel in Dav Pilkey’s “Super Diaper Baby” spinoff of his wildly popular “Captain Underpants” series.
Book News and Reviews
Dave Sanders for The New York Times
The paperback game — a variation on games with poetry or Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations — lets players create their own openings to genre novels.

‘The Swinger’

In this novel about a very famous golfer whose extracurricular kinks become a public embarrassment, the authors Michael Bamberger and Alan Shipnuck know their man and know their game.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
António Lobo Antunes

‘The Land at the End of the World’

In this newly translated novel, the Portugese writer António Lobo Antunes recalls the waning days of his country’s colonial efforts in Angola.
The illustrator and author Tomi Ungerer is experienceing a career renaissance. Several of his children’s books have been reissued and a documentary about his life will be released this fall.

An Author Embodies His Books’ Childlike Spirit

Tomi Ungerer, the author and illustrator of children’s books, is his old mischievous self as he nears 80.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Rachel Shteir

‘The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting’

Rachel Shteir offers a cultural (and literary) history of shoplifting in her new book.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Gretchen Morgenson

‘Reckless Endangerment’

Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner dissect the financial meltdown, paying particular attention to the legal and regulatory changes that stoked the unsustainable housing boom.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Daisy Goodwin

‘The American Heiress’

Daisy Goodwin’s novel is about a Gilded Age Newport belle who heads for England to marry her way into a title.
Book Review Back Page
ESSAY

Tennis by the Book

On one side, we had John McPhee against Nabokov. On the other, Martin Amis against David Foster Wallace.
CRIME

Death Among Neighbors

Mystery novels by Ruth Rendell, Hakan Nesser, Helen Grant and Conor Fitzgerald.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Louisa Thomas on her book, “Conscience”; and Katie Roiphe on Pamela Haag’s “Marriage Confidential.”
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The Times's Critics
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Magazine

What Does Newt Gingrich Know?

Let’s consult the literature — all 21 books by the self-proclaimed ideas man of politics.
Business
OFF THE SHELF

The Moral Behind All the Numbers

In a new book, the Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek shows that economic thinking predates the cut-and-dried science, with tales from Gilgamesh and Genesis.
Metropolitan
BOOKSHELF
TYCOONS A cartoon portraying competing railroad magnates, with Jim Fisk illustrated at right.

An Era When the City Roared

Books about New York in the ’20s, a Wall Street man in a fatal love triangle and the evolution of a town house overlooking the East River.
Book Review Features
Annie Sprinkle

Up Front: Annie Sprinkle

“From the day I gave away my virginity at 17 I started documenting my sexual experiences,” Annie Sprinkle told us via e-mail. “I still am, 40 years later.”
TBR
Janet Evanovich

Inside the List

Janet Evanovich’s “Smokin’ Seventeen” jumps past Tom Clancy’s “Against All Enemies” to give Evanovich her 12th straight No. 1 hardcover best seller in her Stephanie Plum series.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

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