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Books Update

January 14, 2011

Books Update

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

Colm Toibin

'The Empty Family'

By COLM TOIBIN
Reviewed by FRANCINE PROSE
Like Joyce's Dubliners, many of the characters in these stories can't escape their homeland.
Charlie Baxter

'Gryphon'

By CHARLES BAXTER
Reviewed by JOYCE CAROL OATES
Starkness and human isolation lurk beneath the Norman Rockwell contours of Charles Baxter's Midwest stories.
Edith Pearlman

'Binocular Vision'

By EDITH PEARLMAN
Reviewed by ROXANA ROBINSON
Edith Pearlman's view of the world is large and compassionate, delivered in these stories through small, beautifully precise moments.

'Public Enemies'

By BERNARD-HENRI LEVY and MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ
Reviewed by IAN BURUMA
A pair of French writers debate the universe and their places in it.

'The View From Lazy Point'

By CARL SAFINA
Reviewed by DOMINIQUE BROWNING
From his cottage near Montauk Point, a naturalist explains Earth's perilous times and delivers an ambitious meditation on nature's connectedness.

'Being Polite to Hitler'

By ROBB FORMAN DEW
Reviewed by MEG WOLITZER
Robb Forman Dew's novel, set mostly in the 1950s, continues the story of her character Agnes Scofield, a widowed schoolteacher, and her circle.
Coco Chanel in 1929.

'The Secret of Chanel No. 5'

By TILAR J. MAZZEO
Reviewed by JESSICA KERWIN JENKINS
The life of Coco Chanel as seen through her famous perfume.

'Cocaine's Son: A Memoir'

By DAVE ITZKOFF
Reviewed by JULIE MYERSON
A New York Times culture reporter ­attempts to understand his father's addiction.
Afghan militiamen near Tora Bora with a reward notice for the capture of Ayman al-Zawahiri and Osama bin Laden, Dec. 17, 2001.

'The Longest War'

By PETER L. BERGEN
Reviewed by THOMAS E. RICKS
Peter L. Bergen examines Al Qaeda's history and motives and America's ineffective response.

Children's Books

'Olivia Goes to Venice'

By IAN FALCONER
Reviewed by JESSICA BRUDER
Ian Falconer's rambunctious piglet heroine is back, leading her family on a spree through the City of Bridges.

'Plain Kate'

By ERIN BOW
Reviewed by SHERIE POSESORSKI
This historical fantasy for teenagers follows the adventures of an orphaned girl in a world modeled on 16th-century Poland and Lithuania.

'Ballet for Martha'

By JAN GREENBERG and SANDRA JORDAN
Reviewed by JENNIFER B. McDONALD
This book introduces Martha Graham to children with reverence and finesse, recounting how she created the modern-dance classic "Appalachian Spring."

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