martes, 17 de mayo de 2011

Book Review


Book News and Reviews
Jon Ronson
Barney Poole
Jon Ronson
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

The Psycopath Test

In “The Psychopath Test,” Jon Ronson takes his mistrust of psychiatry along on his expeditions, visiting people everywhere from prisons to the corridors of power.

Celebrity Memoirs

In their new memoirs, Shirley MacLaine and Rob Lowe treat the reader like a friend while making it clear that noncelebrities can never really understand the strangeness of celebrity life.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘Area 51’

Annie Jacobsen’s exhaustively researched book asserts that its title subject was a cold war site, not a home to little green men.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘Electric Eden’

Rob Young’s new book explores folk music during the 1960s and early ’70s in Britain.

At Google, the Book Tour Becomes Big Business

Many authors may be concerned over Google’s plan to make their books available free online, but a number of them are happy to promote their work at the company’s speakers series.
Peter Bart's new memoir, “Infamous Players,” documents his years as a vice president at Paramount Pictures.

‘Infamous Players’

Peter Bart’s new memoir recalls his years as a vice president at Paramount under Robert Evans in the late 1960s and 1970s.

At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character

Bel Kaufman, the granddaughter of the great Yiddish storyteller Sholem Aleichem, taught a course on Jewish humor this year at Hunter College, where she graduated in 1934.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Picture Books About Family Photography

“Grandma’s Wedding Album” depicts an album within a book; “A Photo for Greta” is about a bunny whose father is a photographer.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Jose Saramago

‘Small Memories: A Memoir’

This memoir by the Nobel laureate José Saramago, who died last spring, ends with a series of old family photographs that he has mischievously annotated.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Zhou Enlai, left, and Henry Kissinger in Beijing in 1971.

‘On China’

Henry A. Kissinger’s fascinating, shrewd and sometimes perverse new book, “On China,” tries to show how the history of China has shaped its foreign policy and attitudes toward the West.
Sunday Book Review

‘To End All Wars’

Corbis (1915)
Adam Hochschild’s stirring account of World War I concentrates on appalling losses in the ranks and the courage of dissenters.
The easy part: Kissinger, Nixon, Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Prime Minister Zhou Enlai in 1972.

‘On China’

China and America are mutually dependent economic giants, Henry Kissinger argues, but they need a design of partnership.
Stanley Ann Dunham with her son.

‘A Singular Woman’

This biography of Barack Obama’s mother presents a more complex picture than the president offered in his own books.
A protestor in Washington on Sept. 11, 2007.

‘Among the Truthers’

A journalist travels the world of conspiracy theories, about everything from President Obama’s birthplace to 9/11 to vaccines.
A Mary Delany collage of a Magnolia grandiflora.

‘The Paper Garden’

A biography of an 18th-century widow who, in her 70s, invented a new way to depict flowers.

‘Caleb’s Crossing’

In Geraldine Brooks’s historical novel, a missionary’s daughter forms a bond with a scholarly Indian.

‘The Sly Company of People Who Care’

The narrator of this novel journeys into Guyana’s interior to seek answers about the country’s past.

‘What’s Gotten Into Us?: Staying Healthy in a Toxic World’

An effort to come to terms with the unknown consequences that synthetic chemicals may hold for consumers.
Edna O'Brien

‘Saints and Sinners: Stories’

Some of the restless, searching people in Edna O’Brien’s stories confront political violence, others reflect on disappointing loves.
Lincoln Steffens, circa 1920.

‘I Have Seen the Future’

This biography of Lincoln Steffens traces the convictions and delusions of one of the original “muckrakers.”
Bernard Madoff entering court, 2009.

‘The Wizard of Lies’

A Times journalist explains how Bernard Madoff pulled off history’s greatest Ponzi scheme, and how he got away with it for so long.
Gilbert Gottfried

‘Rubber Balls and Liquor’

The sometimes controversial comedian Gilbert Gottfried looks back on the performances that brought him attention.
Children’s Books Special Section
Illustration by Elwood H. Smith
Jane Goodall living among the chimpanzees in “The Watcher.”

Picture Books About Jane Goodall

A pair of biographies connect a pre-eminent primatologist’s lifelong work to her childhood fascinations.

‘Divergent’

In Veronica Roth’s first novel, an urban dystopia is divided into five factions, each guided by a particular virtue.

‘Okay for Now’

Gary D. Schmidt tells a tale of an eighth grader’s healing and discovery through art.

‘Noah Barleywater Runs Away’

When an 8-year-old boy gets fed up and leaves home, he meets some strange characters.

‘Beauty Queens’

Beauty pageant contestants crash on an island, and defy expectations.
Dylan playing for Guthrie in “When Bob Met Woody.”

Picture Books About Folk Music

In these two picture books, an appreciation of folk music is passed from generation to generation.

‘Abandon’

In this supernatural romance inspired by the myth of Persephone, a girl flirts with a death deity.

Novels About Abusive Relationships

Two young adult novels explore abusive dating relationships.

‘Babymouse: Mad Scientist’ and ‘Squish’

A science project in the “Babymouse” graphic novel series takes on a life of its own in “Squish: Super Amoeba.”

‘Fallen Grace’

A Victorian orphan goes in search of her missing sister in Mary Hooper’s historical novel.

‘Ruby Red’

In this novel, a London schoolgirl inherits a time-travel gene.

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