martes, 26 de julio de 2011

Books review


Book News and Reviews
The geographer Anne Kelly Knowles has used mapmaking software to re-examine the Gettysburg battlefield.
Jason P. Smith for The New York Times
The geographer Anne Kelly Knowles has used mapmaking software to re-examine the Gettysburg battlefield.
HUMANITIES 2.0

With Digital Mapmaking, Scholars See History

In the emerging field of “spatial humanities,” scholars are using mapmaking software to recreate vanished landscapes and envision history as it really happened.

A Mystical Tale, From Tee to Green

After years of development, Michael Murphy’s “Golf in the Kingdom” has been turned into a film by the director Susan Streitfeld and the producer Mindy Affrime.
Events celebrating Marshall McLuhan, in 1967, are being held in honor of the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Early Media Prophet Is Now Getting His Due

Events in Europe, Washington and three Canadian cities last week honored the centennial of Marshall McLuhan, who introduced ideas like “the medium is the message” and “the global village” into everyday use.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Katharine Weber

‘The Memory of All That’

The novelist Katharine Weber brings many famous and glamorous names to her memoir, including that of her grandmother’s lover, George Gershwin.
BOOKS

Their Zeal Changed Lives, if Not the System

Dr. David A. Ansell writes about his years working at Cook County Hospital in Chicago, where treating patients was often a medical and political struggle.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Helen Schulman

‘This Beautiful Life’

In “This Beautiful Life” Helen Schulman traces an e-mail caper at a New York private school that goes out of control.
The author Esmeralda Santiago at home in Katonah, N.Y. Her new novel, “Conquistadora,” is an epic of Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico in History, Imagined and Real

Esmeralda Santiago’s latest work is a sweeping historical novel set on a plantation in her native Puerto Rico.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Paul Trynka

‘David Bowie: Starman’

“David Bowie: Starman,” by Paul Trynka, views its rock-star subject as a shape-shifting and calculating cabaret singer.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘Killed at the Whim of a Hat’

Colin Cotterill’s “Killed at the Whim of a Hat” starts off a new series set in Thailand and featuring the female crime reporter Jimm Juree.

Newly Released Books

New books from Megan Abbott, Bonnie Jo Campbell, Deborah Kay Davies, Sheila Kohler, Alafair Burke and Nina Darnton.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Howard Markel

‘An Anatomy of Addiction’

In “An Anatomy of Addiction,” Howard Merkel views cocaine through the eyes of two fans, Freud and the surgeon William Halsted.
Sunday Book Review

‘An Anatomy of Addiction’

An absorbing account of how cocaine affected the careers of Sigmund Freud and the pathbreaking American surgeon William Halsted.
The Church of Scientology building in Los Angeles.

'Inside Scientology' and 'Render Unto Rome'

Two books examine the power that bountiful cash has bestowed on Scientology and the Roman Catholic Church.
READING LIFE

An Academic Author’s Unintentional Masterpiece

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.

‘Orientation: And Other Stories’

A sense of workplace alienation permeates this first story collection, which explores the limits of social interaction.

‘The Sisters Brothers’

Alchemy, gunplay and prospecting mix in this picaresque of the gold rush.

‘Once Upon a River’

Bonnie Jo Campbell’s solitary, sharpshooting heroine fends for herself in rural Michigan.

‘The Idea of America’

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.

‘The Girl in the Blue Beret’

This novel’s hero, a World War II crash survivor, sets out to find the people who risked their lives to help him.
“Mad, gaudy, toxic and exotic”: An 18th-century Dutch view of Suriname.

‘Wild Coast: Travels on South America’s Untamed Edge’

Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana, a tangled green knot of jungle, rock and savannah, are vividly described in this travelogue.
Caitlin Horrocks

‘This Is Not Your City: Stories’

Caitlin Horrocks’s sharp, rugged-hearted fictions share one consuming fixation: We live in a world studded with cruelty.

‘Ladies and Gentlemen: Stories’

For the characters in Adam Ross’s clever story collection, good intentions often go awry.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS

‘Picture Books About Bears’

“The Summer Visitors” and “The Next Door Bear” offer very different takes on the intersecting domestic lives of people and bears.
Book Review Back Page
ESSAY

Why Writers Belong Behind Bars

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

Prying Eyes

Mystery novels by P. L. Gaus, Linda Castillo, Harry Dolan, Colin Cotterill and Lars Kepler.

Fiction Chronicle

Novels by Louis B. Jones, A. G. Mojtabai, David Abbott, Ann Joslin Williams and Sheila Kohler.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring the journalist Janet Reitman on her investigation “Inside Scientology”; and Adam Ross on his story collection, “Ladies and Gentlemen.”
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BOOKSHELF
German immigrants, 1925.

Giving Voice to Immigrants, Past and Present

A collection of oral histories that recounts the hopes and dreams of immigrants, the best urban sanctuaries in the city and the legacy of Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood.
Book Review Features
TBR
S. J. Watson

Inside the List

This week’s fiction list feature one out-of-nowhere literary sensation: S. J. Watson well-reviewed neuro-thriller, “Before I Go to Sleep.”

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.

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