sábado, 6 de agosto de 2011

Books review


Sunday Book Review
Leanne Shapton

‘A Book of Secrets’

A noted biographer retells the love story of Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel in unprecedented depth.
HORROR

The State of Zombie Literature: An Autopsy

Does our 21st-century fascination with these hungry hordes stem from a general anxiety about overwhelming, uncontrollable threats?

‘Northwest Corner’

John Burnham Schwartz’s new novel returns to the broken families of “Reservation Road.”
Ned Zeman

‘The Rules of the Tunnel’

A depressed writer searches for answers to his problems in the lives of kindred sufferers.
A Somali pirate in January 2010, with a captured Greek cargo ship anchored offshore.

‘The Pirates of Somalia’

At great personal risk, a Canadian journalist explores the rise of modern piracy.

‘The Night Train’

In this novel, set in the civil-rights-era South, two aspiring musicians fight to preserve a forbidden friendship.

‘The Theory That Would Not Die’

The controversial history of the mathematical theorem that tells us when we should change our minds.

‘Paradise Lust’

A history of the eccentric searchers who have sought the real Garden of Eden, in the Arctic, Chinese Turkestan and rural Ohio.

‘Tiger Trap’

David Wise assesses the impact of Chinese spying in America.

‘Other People’s Money’

Contributors to the financial collapse of 2008 emerge in Justin Cartwright’s novel.
Summer in Brooklyn, 1993.

‘Devotions’

Bruce Smith’s tough-guy poems call attention to the male experience.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS

‘A Storm Called Katrina’

A fictional but realistic account of a 10-year-old boy who lives in New Orleans during the great hurricane of 2005 and its aftermath.
Book News and Reviews
Michael Holroyd
Caroline Forbes
Michael Holroyd
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘A Book of Secrets ’

The biographer Michael Holroyd’s new book reads like a series of short stories linking the lives of several women around whom more famous men revolve.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘The Family Fang ’

Kevin Wilson portrays a married couple, performance artists, who feature their son and daughter in their work, to the detriment of the children, who grow up to be damaged adults.
THE ART OF SUMMER
A collage of iPhone photos: “Communication Prosthesis,” showing people whose teeth are bared, at the Museum of Modern Art.

The Words We Live By

A day of wandering the semantic landscape of Manhattan with an eye out for everyday words: the language of street signs and menus, MetroCards and T-shirts.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Wayne Koestenbaum

‘Humiliation’

In his quite good and very bad new book, Wayne Koestenbaum explores the many varieties — and, for him, pleasures — of shame.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Protesters continued to demonstrate in Tahrir Square in Cairo in June, months after Hosni Mubarak stepped down.

‘Rock the Casbah’

“Rock the Casbah,” a new book by Robin Wright, examines the causes and repercussions of the recent Arab Spring and broader trends in the Islamic world.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
David Whitehouse

‘Bed’

David Whitehouse’s “Bed” concerns an obese man and the family members who care for him.
The New Yorker has attained higher iPad sales than other iPad editions sold by Condé Nast.

For New Yorker on iPad, Words Are the Thing

With a minimum of bells and whistles and a focus on a readable format, The New Yorker attained iPad sales higher than those of any other iPad edition sold by Condé Nast.
HUMANITIES 2.0
A digital map of the Gettysburg battlefield illustrates what Gen. Robert E. Lee would have seen on the second day of fighting.

Digital Maps Are Giving Scholars the Historical Lay of the Land

Many-layered mapmaking is helping scholars recreate vanished landscapes and envision history.
Back Page
ESSAY

The Great Fleet Street Novel

Evelyn Waugh’s 1938 novel “Scoop” features journalists and the police in cahoots, and a press lord with a cult of personality. Sound familiar?
CRIME

Grimm Lessons

Mystery novels by Reginald Hill, Will Lavender, Michael Harvey and Judy Clemens.

The Mad Scientist of Smut

The novelist Nicholson Baker lives a quiet life in Maine. But boy, does his mind wander.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Brook Wilensky-Lanford on the search for the Garden of Eden; and Toni Bentley on “A Book of Secrets” by Michael Holroyd.
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MOTHERLODE BLOG

"No Biking in the House Without a Helmet"

A new book club book -- and a collection of things you never thought you would EVER say as a parent.
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TBR
Amor Towles

Inside the List

Amor Towles’s “Rules of Civility,” hits the hardcover fiction list at No. 16. Not bad for a first novel by a money manager.

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