viernes, 26 de agosto de 2011

Book Review


On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'The Leftovers'

By TOM PERROTTA
Reviewed by STEPHEN KING
Tom Perrotta's new novel examines how ordinary people react to extraordinary situations in the wake of a rapturelike event that has whisked millions of people off the face of the earth.

Also in the Book Review

Joseph Heller

The Enigma of Joseph Heller

Reviewed by BLAKE BAILEY
A biography and a memoir examine the life and career of the author of "Catch-22."
Enrique Krauze

'Redeemers: Ideas and Power in Latin America'

By ENRIQUE KRAUZE
Reviewed by PAUL BERMAN
A look at literary and political figures in Latin America.
Congressional committee members examine passports of Japanese picture brides at the immigration station of Angel Island, Calif., July 25, 1920.

'The Buddha in the Attic'

By JULIE OTSUKA
Reviewed by ALIDA BECKER
In Julie Otsuka's novel, Japanese women sail to America in the early 1900s to become the wives of men they have not met.
From left, Cynthia Nixon, Anne Lange, Joanne Camp and Joan Allen, in a scene from

'Wendy And the Lost Boys'

By JULIE SALAMON
Reviewed by FRANCINE PROSE
A biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright reveals a full and complicated life.

'The Magician King'

By LEV GROSSMAN
Reviewed by DAN KOIS
A sequel to "The Magicians" revolves around an unexpected quest.
Tracy K. Smith

'Life On Mars'

By TRACY K. SMITH
Reviewed by JOEL BROUWER
Tracy Smith imagines a soundtrack for the universe and mourns her father, who worked on the Hubble Telescope.

'The Secret Life of Pronouns'

By JAMES W. PENNEBAKER
Reviewed by BEN ZIMMER
A psychologist argues that pronouns, articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and conjunctions reflect our interior lives.
Jesse Ball

'The Curfew'

By JESSE BALL
Reviewed by WILLIAM GIRALDI
This dystopian novel reveals a world where music is banned and punishment is swift.

'Starting From Happy'

By WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY PATRICIA MARX
Reviewed by ALEXANDRA JACOBS
A woman content to be alone meets her mate.

Back Page

ESSAY

A Veteran Baseball Novel Comes Off the Bench

By MATT WEILAND
Robert Coover's classic revels in the sun-bright vitality of the game while plumbing its dark truths.
READING LIFE

What We Do to Books

By GEOFF DYER
The creases, the annotations and the blood stains all imprint a book with the fact of my having read it.
CRIME

Deaths in the Family

By MARILYN STASIO
Mystery novels by Mark Billingham, James Sallis, Maureen Jennings and Kjell Eriksson.

Nonfiction Chronicle

By MEGAN BUSKEY
Books about the history of smallpox, Shakespeare's impact, Anna Politkovskaya's journalistic work in Russia and growing up in the Southern Baptist church.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Tom Perrotta on the fictional Rapture in his new book, "The Leftovers"; Erica Heller reminisces about her father, Catch-22 author, Joseph Heller.
ArtsBeat

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