viernes, 11 de marzo de 2011

Book Revie


On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'The Tiger's Wife'

By TEA OBREHT
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER
In her first novel, Tea Obreht uses fable and allegory to illustrate the complexities of Balkan history, unearthing the region's pervasive patterns of suspicion, superstition and everyday violence.

Also in the Book Review

'The Social Animal'

By DAVID BROOKS
Reviewed by THOMAS NAGEL
The Times op-ed columnist David Brooks argues that people need to stop believing they have conscious control of their actions.
Gabrielle Hamilton at her restaurant, Prune.

'Blood, Bones and Butter'

By GABRIELLE HAMILTON
Reviewed by FRANK BRUNI
Gabrielle Hamilton, the chef at the New York restaurant Prune, tells of satisfying a variety of hungers in this memoir.
Maxine Hong Kingston

'I Love a Broad Margin to My Life'

By MAXINE HONG KINGSTON
Reviewed by DAVID ORR
The novelist Maxine Hong Kingston opts for poetry while taking a long look back in this 229-page free-verse memoir.

'Day of the Oprichnik'

By VLADIMIR SOROKIN
Reviewed by STEPHEN KOTKIN
In Vladimir Sorokin's dystopian tale, futuristic technology reinforces the draconian codes of Ivan the Terrible.

'Moonwalking With Einstein'

By JOSHUA FOER
Reviewed by ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ
A journalist who covered a memory championship gets a tutor, works at it and tries competing himself.

'The Executive Unbound'

By ERIC A. POSNER and ADRIAN VERMEULE
Reviewed by HARVEY MANSFIELD
The executive outranks the other coequal branches, a pair of law professors maintain. And we should learn to accept that.
HARLEM: A Century in Images256 pp. Skira Rizzoli/Studio Museum Harlem. $55. Richard Avedon, Dawoud Bey, Helen Levitt, Gordon Parks and Weegee are among more than 50 photographers represented in this chronicle of Harlem as a crossroads of art, culture and politics. Pictured,

'Harlem Is Nowhere'

By SHARIFA RHODES-PITTS
Reviewed by KAIAMA L. GLOVER
A Harlem transplant documents her own experiences there, and those of many others.

'Mr. Chartwell'

By REBECCA HUNT
Reviewed by TADZIO KOELB
Rebecca Hunt's humorous and amiable debut novel involves Winston Churchill, depression and a talking dog.
CRIME

A Trophy Wife's Tale

By MARILYN STASIO
Mystery novels by Walter Mosley, Cara Hoffman, Ian Rankin and Sara J. Henry.

Children's Books

Goodbye, sweet tooth:

Picture Books for Little Princesses

Reviewed by PEGGY ORENSTEIN
Three new books bring home the current market power of the color pink.

'Death Cloud'

By ANDREW LANE
Reviewed by GRAHAM MOORE
In this Y.A. novel, a 14-year-old Sherlock Holmes quells a possible outbreak of bubonic plague, duels a French baron and wins the affections of a rambunctious American girl.

'Strings Attached'

By JUDY BLUNDELL
Reviewed by DARCEY STEINKE
Judy Blundell offers another noirish thriller in which teenagers uncover the questionable actions of their elders and learn to form their own judgments.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS

'Cinnamon Baby'

By NICOLA WINSTANLEY
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
In this delicious modern-day fable, the scent of cinnamon has the power to cure a colicky baby.

Children's Bookshelf

By PAMELA PAUL
More children's books reviewed.

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