On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By ERROL MORRIS
Reviewed by KATHRYN SCHULZ
The filmmaker Errol Morris's book is about the limitations of vision, and the inevitable distortions involved in the act of looking at photographs.
Also in the Book Review
By RANDALL KENNEDY
Reviewed by BRENT STAPLES
Candidate Obama had to reassure voters of all colors, Randall Kennedy finds.
By STEVEN MILLHAUSER
Reviewed by JONATHAN LETHEM
Written over the span of three decades, Steven Millhauser's stories find the weird in the prosaic.
By MARY CLEARMAN BLEW
Reviewed by LOUISA THOMAS
A writer and English professor grapples with her past in this memoir.
By MARLENE ZUK
Reviewed by ELIZABETH ROYTE
Marlene Zuk shows how the insect world, like ours, can be stunningly complex.
By JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND
Reviewed by BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS
Justin Vivian Bond recalls the ups and downs of being a "trans child."
By ARTHUR KRYSTAL
Reviewed by MARY JO MURPHY
Arthur Krystal's essays issue from "reading, study, silence, thought."
By ELISSA SCHAPPELL
Reviewed by JENNIFER B. McDONALD
The heroines of these linked stories tend to be volatile, aggrieved, distrustful and confused.
By ALEXANDRA FULLER
Reviewed by DOMINIQUE BROWNING
Alexandra Fuller returns to the continent of her birth to write a sequel, or prequel, to "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight."
By ROY F. BAUMEISTER AND JOHN TIERNEY
Reviewed by STEVEN PINKER
Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney explore what we can do to increase self-control.
By ALEX SHAKAR
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA
Alex Shakar's protagonist broods over his comatose brother and joins a neurological experiment that promises "spiritual awakening."
By STEVE SEM-SANDBERG
Reviewed by DAPHNE MERKIN
In this novel about the Holocaust, the real-life Jewish leader Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski looms large.
By HAL VAUGHAN
Reviewed by JUDITH WARNER
A biography contends that Coco Chanel was a Nazi agent.
Written and illustrated by ANDERS BREKHUS NILSEN
Reviewed by DOUGLAS WOLK
Anders Brekhus Nilsen's unsettling comic vision embraces a flock of finches, the injustice of the food chain, and Plato's cave.
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Back Page
ESSAY
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
An unusual artifact resurfaced at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin - a narrow pine door from a Greenwich Village bookstore, covered with some 242 signatures.
THE MECHANIC MUSE
By LEV GROSSMAN
Centuries before e-books changed the way people read, the codex replaced the scroll.
CRIME
By MARILYN STASIO
Mystery novels by George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, Martin Walker and Sebastian Rotella.
Featuring Harvard scholar Randall Kennedy on racial politics in America in his new book, "The Persistence of the Color Line"; columnist Ginia Bellafante talks about the new Big City Book Club.
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