On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By JOHN JULIUS NORWICH
Reviewed by BILL KELLER
John Julius Norwich's popular history of the papacy finds that the truly great popes were outnumbered by the corrupt, the inept, the venal, the lecherous and the mediocre.
Also in the Book Review
By EVA GABRIELSSON
Reviewed by DAVID CARR
Eva Gabrielsson recalls her 32-year partnership with the best-selling author of the Millennium trilogy.
By ANDREW E. KERSTEN and JOHN A. FARRELL
Reviewed by KEVIN BOYLE
A pair of biographies about the trial lawyer Clarence Darrow draw on newly unearthed documents.
By GAIL LEVIN and PATRICIA ALBERS
Reviewed by JED PERL
Two biographies examine the spiritedness and formidable success of the Abstract Expressionist painters Lee Krasner and Joan Mitchell.
By GERALD L. EARLY
Reviewed by ROBERT LIPSYTE
A professor of American culture traces the color line onto the playing field.
By DANA SPIOTTA
Reviewed by KATE CHRISTENSEN
In Dana Spiotta's novel, a woman struggles with the loss of her brother, an unrecognized rock star.
By HORACIO CASTELLANOS MOYA
Reviewed by SHEILA GLASER
Through one family's ordeal, the Salvadoran novelist Horacio Castellanos Moya depicts a country in the grip of a despot.
By MICHAEL ROBOTHAM
Reviewed by JOE NOCERA
Michael Robotham's thriller borrows from real events, like the financial crisis and the disappearance of billions of dollars in Iraq.
By JUDITH CHAZIN-BENNAHUM
Reviewed by JENNIFER HOMANS
A look at René Blum, who made a place in history running the Ballets Russes.
By MARC FUMAROLI
Reviewed by CAROLINE WEBER
A magisterial study of the role of the French language in its 18th-century heyday, when it was it was still the international idiom of choice.
By ORLANDO FIGES
Reviewed by GARY J. BASS
Orlando Figes explains how the Crimean War resonates today.
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ESSAY
By ROGER ROSENBLATT
All writers are mystery writers, mucking around in a world studded with clues, in pursuit of bad guys.
Featuring Bill Keller on a new history of the papacy; and Eva Gabrielsson on her life with Stieg Larsson.
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