On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review 'Ten Thousand Saints'By ELEANOR HENDERSON |
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'The Secret Knowledge'
By DAVID MAMET
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
David Mamet comes out swinging against liberalism, offering his views on religion and American culture.
'State of Wonder'
By ANN PATCHETT
Reviewed by FERNANDA EBERSTADT
Ann Patchett's heroine, on the trail of a reclusive scientist in the Amazon, faces demons real and imagined.
'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention'
By MANNING MARABLE
Reviewed by TOURE
Manning Marable's biography of Malcolm X draws upon letters, diaries, F.B.I. reports and interviews with contemporaries to trace his career and illuminates his intellectual and spiritual development.
'House of Exile'
By EVELYN JUERS
Reviewed by JOHN SIMON
The cultural diaspora of the Nazi years, through the eyes of Thomas Mann's brother and unlikely sister-in-law.
'Witness to an Extreme Century'
By ROBERT JAY LIFTON
Reviewed by MAURICE ISSERMAN
A memoir by Robert Jay Lifton, a leading "psychohistorian" who studied how individuals have coped with extreme circumstances: war, torture, genocide.
'A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion'
By RON HANSEN
Reviewed by STEVEN HEIGHTON
A sensational Jazz Age crime that also inspired James M. Cain and William Styron is the basis for Ron Hansen's propulsive novel.
'Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth-Century Paris'
By ASTI HUSTVEDT
Reviewed by KATHRYN HARRISON
Asti Hustvedt examines the dubious research of a 19th-century French doctor who used hypnosis to induce hysteria in female subjects.
'How the Hippies Saved Physics'
By DAVID KAISER
Reviewed by GEORGE JOHNSON
In the 1970s, eccentric young scientists challenged convention and re-energized modern physics.
'Separated by Their Sex'
By MARY BETH NORTON
Reviewed by JOYCE E. CHAPLIN
Between 1640 and 1760, Mary Beth Norton contends, men were increasingly viewed as public beings and women as private ones.
'Vaclav & Lena'
By HALEY TANNER
Reviewed by LUCY FERRISS
A first novel about young love in a Russian émigré community.
'The Storm of War'
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Reviewed by TIMOTHY SNYDER
In a clear, accessible account of World War II in all its theaters, a historian asks how the Wehrmacht, the best fighting force, wound up losing.
'The Central Park Five'
By SARAH BURNS
Reviewed by MAGGIE NELSON
This is the first sustained treatment of the Central Park jogger case since the defendants' convictions were vacated.
Children's Books
Paradoxical Stories for Children
By DAVID LUCAS and CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Reviewed by MARJORIE INGALL
"The Lying Carpet" and "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making" celebrate paradox and the transformative power of storytelling.
'Junonia'
By KEVIN HENKES
Reviewed by ANN M. MARTIN
A blossoming 10-year-old seeks a rare seashell in this middle grade novel.
Picture Books About Frogs
Reviewed by LEONARD S. MARCUS
"Leap Back Home to Me" and "999 Tadpoles" involve little frogs and the security that family brings.
Bookshelf: Farm
By PAMELA PAUL
More picture books reviewed.
Picture Books About the Backyard
By JOHN BERENDT and LISA CAMPBELL ERNST
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
"My Baby Blue Jays" chronicles a family of birds living on the author's balcony; and "How Things Work in the Ward" explains the everyday mysteries of acorns, dandelions, rocks and dirt.
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Featuring Eleanor Henderson on her novel, "Ten Thousand Saints"; and Asti Hustvedt, the author of "Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris."
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By PATRICIA COHEN
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By PATRICIA COHEN
Rationality evolved to win arguments, some scholars suggest, and flawed reasoning is itself an adaptation.
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