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BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘Life Itself ’

The critic Roger Ebert and his wife, Chaz, at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.
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The critic Roger Ebert and his wife, Chaz, at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.
In “Life Itself” the film critic Roger Ebert covers much career and personal ground, including the challenge of coping with cancer and disfiguring surgery.
MEDIA DECODER

Schwarzenegger to Publish Memoir

Arnold Schwarzenegger has made a deal to write a memoir, tentatively titled "Total Recall," and due for publication in Oct. 2012.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Charles Frazier

‘Nightwoods’

Charles Frazier’s new book, “Nightwoods,” set in the 1960s, recounts both a love story and a story of survival and endurance; mostly, though, it is a story about second chances.

Kindle Connects to Library E-Books

Amazon has significantly increased the potential visibility of library e-books by opening up its popular Kindle reading device to these books for the first time.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Picture Books About Girls Who Dress Up

“I Had a Favorite Dress” and “Birdie’s Big-Girl Dress” are two new picture books about girls and their cherished dresses.

Century After It Was Banned, Place of Honor for Twain Tale

“Eve’s Diary” was pulled from the shelves of a library in 1906 after trustees objected to illustrations of a naked Eve in Eden.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Daniel Yergin

‘The Quest’

In “The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World,” Daniel Yergin returns to the topic of how energy policy is driving global change.
Kay Ryan, a former poet laureate of the United States and Pulitzer Prize winner, said the MacArthur grant provided a certain “mental ease.”

MacArthur Foundation Selects 22 ‘Geniuses’

The 22 recipients of the $500,000 “genius awards” selected by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation represent a broad swath of achievement in the arts and sciences.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Lee Child

‘The Affair’

In “The Affair,” the 16th book in the Reacher series, Lee Child gives his hero a back story.
Sunday Book Review

‘The Grief of Others’

Jon Klassen
Leah Hager Cohen’s fourth novel weaves a complex pattern of light and dark, happiness and grief, in a 21st-century version of the family chronicle.

‘Driving Home’

Jonathan Raban’s essays describe how he left England for a new life in Seattle.
H. G. Wells

‘A Man of Parts’

David Lodge’s novel is based on the life of H.G. Wells, writer, prophet, political thinker and lover.
Lily Tuck

‘I Married You for Happiness’

Lily Tuck’s novel traces the joys and the mysteries of a long marriage.
A refugee camp in Korem, Ethiopia, 1984.

‘Three Famines: Starvation and Politics’

When it comes to famine, Thomas Keneally finds natural forces less culpable than social injustice.

‘Is Marriage for White People?’

Why are black women much less likely to marry than white?

‘There but for the’

Ali Smith’s satire about a guest who refuses to leave is also a parable of contemporary life.
Surat, India, in 2005.

‘The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India’

Siddhartha Deb looks at how individual Indians are dealing with the country’s rapid change.

‘What It Is Like to Go to War’

A Vietnam veteran offers a deeply personal look at the ordeal of combat.
Roya Hakakian

‘Assassins of the Turquoise Palace’

The 1992 killings of four Iranian opposition leaders in Berlin implicated the highest levels of Iran’s leadership.

‘The Golden Empire’

Hugh Thomas continues his monumental account of the glory days of Spain.
Denis Johnson

‘Train Dreams’

A powerful American story of backwoods tragedy and isolation unfolds in Denis Johnson’s novella.
American Communists lining up for the May Day parade in Manhattan in 1935.

‘American Dreamers’

Michael Kazin extols the influence of the left’s reformers, radicals and idealists in shaping America.

‘Noon’

A young protagonist is caught between the worlds of India and Pakistan.
Children's Books

‘Wonderstruck’

Brian Selznick’s new book, which follows “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” expands on his method.

‘Wildwood’

The Decemberists’ singer and songwriter, Colin Meloy, imagines a world that is part Portland, part fantasy.

‘The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman’

The hero of Meg Wolitzer’s first young adult novel possesses a special power that gives him an unfair advantage in Scrabble.

‘The Flint Heart’

Katherine and John Paterson bring back a century-old fantasy classic.

Bookshelf: Fairy and Folk Tales

Children’s and young adult books about kings, orphans, dragons and mythological beasts.

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