domingo, 24 de abril de 2011

Book Review


Sunday Book Review
Paolo Ventura

‘1861: The Civil War Awakening’

In this exhilarating account of the Civil War’s first stage, Adam Goodheart turns his lens upon some fascinating figures who loomed large at the time but have now been mostly forgotten.

‘Reading My Father: A Memoir’

William Styron’s daughter tells what it was like to live with her famous father’s depression and paranoia.
Hip-hop's Horatio Alger: Ice-T in New York,  1993.

‘Ice’

Ice-T — rapper, actor, author — holds forth on urban culture and the price of fame.
ON POETRY
Matthew Zapruder

How Poets Achieve Their Styles

A look at new books by Matthew Zapruder, 43, and Rachel Wetzsteon, who killed herself at 42 in 2009.
Lisa Scottoline

‘Save Me’

A mother’s action during a school emergency causes an uproar in her idyllic suburban community.

‘The Weird Sisters’

This first novel is narrated by a trinity of sisters who return home to care for their ailing mother.

‘In the Rooms’

In Tom Shone’s first novel, a literary agent joins Alcoholics Anonymous to pursue an esteemed author.
The Gulf of Mexico off New Orleans, April 28, 2010.

‘A Sea in Flames: The Deepwater Horizon Oil Blowout’

A report from a marine ecologist who scrutinized the Deepwater Horizons oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

‘We Had It So Good’

Linda Grant’s novel follows a generation through a British couple who met in college in the late 1960s.

‘The Age of Airpower’

Martin van Creveld questions Americans’ faith in air power as a way to win a war without a heavy price.

‘Scribble, Scribble, Scribble’

In these essays, the historian Simon Schama roams among various pursuits, both broad and intimate.
Paula Fox

‘News From the World’

This literary assortment from Paula Fox includes stories, essays and memoir fragments, written over the course of half a century.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
In

Old-School Interactive Books

Two new picture books, “Ice” and “Press Here,” invite reader engagement without bells or whistles.
Book News and Reviews
A school in Sarhad-e Broghil built by Greg Mortenson’s charity
Gilles Sabrie for The New York Times
A school in Sarhad-e Broghil built by Greg Mortenson’s charity
The “Three Cups of Tea” author Greg Mortenson’s charitable work, seen up close, suggests the complexity of development work in Afghanistan.

Judge Approves Bonus Plan for Executives of the Borders Group

The bankruptcy judge said a revised plan was “in the best interests of the debtors, their estates and creditors.”
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Francine Prose

‘My New American Life’

In Francine Prose’s new novel, an Albanian immigrant seeks the good life by inventing stories of her old one.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Rob Lowe

‘Stories I Only Tell My Friends’

Often in his memoir, “Stories I Only Tell My Friends,” Rob Lowe, who shows himself to be smart and self-deprecating, marvels at the sheer absurdity of his circumstances.

Newly Released Books

This month turns out to be a cruel one for women, with new releases — from Jo Ann Beard, Siri Hustvedt, Mary Gordon, Linda Grant, David Hewson and Michael Wallner — exploring themes of adolescence, adultery, aging and murder.
SKIN DEEP
Inès de la Fressange at her Roger Vivier office.

This Is What ‘Parisienne’ Looks Like

Inès de la Fressange, businesswoman and former model, wrote a best-selling book of tips on how to look Parisian.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
 Alexandra Styron

‘Reading My Father: A Memoir’

Alexandra Styron writes of growing up with a novelist who had a charmed social circle and difficult personality.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Paul Allen

‘Idea Man’

The headline-making aspect of Mr. Allen’s memoir is his depiction of the stormy relationship with Bill Gates as two business partners’ equivalent of a first bad marriage.
BOOKS ON SCIENCE

Eighty Years Along, a Longevity Study Still Has Ground to Cover

Researchers find conscientiousness might be the key to a long life.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Sarah Vowell

‘Unfamiliar Fishes’

Sarah Vowell’s “Unfamiliar Fishes” is a relentlessly casual, personal take on the Americanization of Hawaii.
Greg Mortenson, right, at a school in Pushghar, Afghanistan, in July 2009, posed for a photo with Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

‘Three Cups of Tea’ Author Defends Book

A CBS News report questioned several facts in Greg Mortenson’s memoir, which has fed a charity he runs.

Sweet Valley Twins Are Back, and, Like Readers, Fully Adult

St. Martin’s Press is navigating the trickiness of reviving a beloved series and directing it at the people who were devoted to it the first time around.
ESSAY

An Evangelical Pastor Opens the Gates of Heaven

In his controversial new best seller, “Love Wins,” the evangelical minister Rob Bell challenges traditional views of heaven and hell.
CRIME

Covert Operations

Mystery novels by Anne Perry, Philip Kerr, David Downing and Julia Spencer-Fleming.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Adam Goodheart on his book “1861: The Civil War Awakening”; and excerpts from a panel discussion about the role of poetry in the modern world.
  •  This Week's Book Review Podcast (mp3)

2011 Pulitzer Prize Winners Announced

The New York Times won two Pulitzer Prizes for commentary and foreign reporting in 2010, while The Los Angeles Times received the coveted public service Pulitzer.
Week in Review

Why the King James Bible Endures

The King James Bible turns 400 next month. But it still speaks to current debates over how best to translate sacred texts.
Sunday Magazine

Shaun Tan’s Wild Imagination

Already celebrated in his native Australia, the artist has emerged on the global stage at 37 as a major visual storyteller.
Metro
DEBATE Paul Brodeur, a former reporter for The New Yorker, is demanding the return of the entire collection of papers he donated to the New York Public Library. He has built a shed in his backyard in Cape Cod to store the boxes.

In Elite Library Archives, a Dispute Over a Trove

Paul Brodeur, a former investigative reporter for The New Yorker, claims the New York Public Library has mishandled the collection of documents he donated to its archives.
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Business
Bernard Madoff in 1999. Ten years later, he would get a 150-year prison term for the largest Ponzi scheme in history.

Scenes From the Madoff Masquerade

Bernard L. Madoff remained calm and seemingly in control as the financial crisis closed in around him, a new book says.
Book Review Features
Baz Dreisinger

Up Front: Baz Dreisinger

Baz Dreisinger started writing about hip-hop in the late 1990s, as both an academic and a journalist.
TBR
Greg Mortenson

Inside the List

Greg Mortenson, whose “Three Cups of Tea” clocks its 220th week on the paperback nonfiction list, tests the adage that there’s no such thing as bad publicity.

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Paperback Row

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