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By HOWARD MARKEL
Reviewed by SHERWIN NULAND
An absorbing account of how cocaine affected the careers of Sigmund Freud and the pathbreaking American surgeon William Halsted.
Also in the Book Review
Reviewed by GARRY WILLS
Two books examine the power that bountiful cash has bestowed on Scientology and the Roman Catholic Church.
READING LIFE
By GEOFF DYER
Michael Fried's genius is to manage to tell you what he is not doing, what he has not done and what he is not going to do.
By DANIEL OROZCO
Reviewed by JOHN WILLIAMS
A sense of workplace alienation permeates this first story collection, which explores the limits of social interaction.
By PATRICK DeWITT
Reviewed by JOHN VERNON
The henchmen in this gold rush-era western are chasing a prospector.
By BONNIE JO CAMPBELL
Reviewed by JANE SMILEY
Bonnie Jo Campbell's solitary, sharpshooting heroine fends for herself in rural Michigan.
By GORDON S. WOOD
Reviewed by DAVID HACKETT FISCHER
Eleven essays encompass the entire career of the historian Gordon S. Wood, whose work re-envisioned the American Revolution and, unusually, has appealed to readers all across the political spectrum.
By BOBBIE ANN MASON
Reviewed by DANIEL SWIFT
This novel's hero, a World War II crash survivor, sets out to find the people who risked their lives to help him.
By JOHN GIMLETTE
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER
Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, a tangled green knot of jungle, rock and savannah, are vividly described in this travelogue.
By CAITLIN HORROCKS
Reviewed by ROBIN ROMM
Caitlin Horrocks's sharp, rugged-hearted fictions share one consuming fixation: We live in a world studded with cruelty.
By ADAM ROSS
Reviewed by DEAN BAKOPOULOS
For the characters in Adam Ross's clever story collection, good intentions often go awry.
By ALISON McCULLOCH
Novels by Louis B. Jones, A. G. Mojtabai, David Abbott, Ann Joslin Williams and Sheila Kohler.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
"The Summer Visitors" and "The Next Door Bear" offer very different takes on the intersecting domestic lives of people and bears.
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ESSAY
By TONY PERROTTET
From a strictly literary point of view, prison was the best thing that ever happened to the Marquis de Sade. Other writers should be so lucky.
CRIME
By MARILYN STASIO
Mystery novels by P. L. Gaus, Linda Castillo, Harry Dolan, Colin Cotterill and Lars Kepler.
Featuring the journalist Janet Reitman on her investigation "Inside Scientology"; and Adam Ross on his story collection, "Ladies and Gentlemen."
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