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jueves, 15 de septiembre de 2011

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Joe McGinniss
Nancy Doherty
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BOOKS OF THE TIMES

‘The Rogue’

Joe McGinniss searches for “the real Sarah Palin” by moving in next door to her.

Newly Released Books

Among this month’s releases: an outlandish plot (“Boxer, Beetle”), a Mennonite community in Mexico (“Irma Voth”) and a memoirist’s chronicle of building a cabin (“Cabin”).
CHILDREN'S BOOKS

Picture Books About Boys at Play

“Anton Can Do Magic,” “My Rhinoceros” and “Where’s My T-R-U-C-K?” are three new picture books that capture the singularity, stubbornness and sweetness in the ways young boys play.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Michael Moore

‘Here Comes Trouble’

“Here Comes Trouble,” by the documentarian Michael Moore, is almost but not quite a memoir.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Alexander Maksik

‘You Deserve Nothing’

“You Deserve Nothing” follows a high school teacher who has an affair with a student.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Candice Millard

‘Destiny of the Republic’

The historian Candice Millard zeroes in on the 1881 assassination attempt on President James A. Garfield and the dreadfully misguided medical efforts to save his life.
At left, Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg, with Gregory Newby, the organization's chief executive.

Michael Hart, a Pioneer of E-Books, Dies at 64

Mr. Hart began the digital library Project Gutenberg after a July 4 fireworks display, when he typed up the Declaration of Independence and made it available for download.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
Lucette Lagnado

‘The Arrogant Years’

In Lucette Lagnado’s book “The Arrogant Years,” two young women are cut down at the height of their self-confidence.
Sunday Book Review

‘That Used to Be Us’

The Continental Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan.
Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre
The Continental Motors plant in Detroit, Michigan.
Stepping forward as “frustrated optimists,” Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum address the grim situation of a slumping American economy.
Christopher Hitchens

‘Arguably: Essays’

Christopher Hitchens’s latest essays bear “the full consciousness that they might be my very last.”

‘The Art of Fielding’

This first novel revolves around a gifted but vulnerable ballplayer.
Arab Springs
Torture victims in pictures found at a police station in Zawiyah, Libya, in April.

‘Anatomy of a Disappearance’

In the Libyan writer Hisham Matar’s second novel, the protagonist’s father, an exiled dissident, is kidnapped.
Hissa Hilal was the first woman in the final round of the TV show

‘Rock the Casbah ’

Robin Wright contends that the Arab world’s young people are at the vanguard of a sweeping and seductive cultural revolution.
Traces of Al Qaeda's presence in an abandoned house in Afghanistan, November 2001.

‘The Missing Martyrs’

A decade after 9/11, a sociologist says the mystery isn’t why so many Muslims turn to terrorism, but why so few.
Hart Crane on the roof of 110 Columbia Heights, where he began

‘Literary Brooklyn’

Writers have been flocking to Brooklyn since the time of Walt Whitman.

‘Crossbones’

Nuruddin Farah’s novel offers a close look at Somalia, and its pirates.
Queen of the galaxy: Jane Fonda in the 1968 film

‘Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman’

Actor, sex kitten, political activist, exercise guru, philanthropist: Jane Fonda is constantly evolving.

‘Birds of Paradise’

Diana Abu-Jaber’s novel presents the lushness of Miami, and a teenager lost in it.
An etching of Vasco da Gama.

‘Holy War’

Vasco da Gama hoped to recruit Indian Christians against Islam.
Parallel lives: Lucette Lagnado with her mother, Edith, in 1968.

‘The Arrogant Years’

Lucette Lagnado’s tenacious mother is at the heart of this memoir, a follow-up to “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit.”
Down at the heels: Binghamton, N.Y., hopes to see better days.

‘The Neighborhood Project’

David Sloan Wilson wants to apply the principles of evolutionary biology to solve everyday community problems.
Beryl Bainbridge

‘The Girl in the Polka-Dot Dress’

Robert Kennedy’s assassination and a 20-something Englishwoman come together in Beryl Bainbridge’s posthumous novel.
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LETTER FROM CAIRO
Once-banned books on sale in Tunis in March.

What Do Egypt’s Writers Do Now?

The revolution has shaken up Egypt’s literary scene, making each witness to Mubarak’s fall “a potential new writer.”
From Opinion
OP-ED CONTRIBUTOR

When Quoting Verse, One Must Be Terse

American poetry criticism faces a major problem, one that has nothing to do with poetry, or readers, or anything remotely literary: copyright law.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Op-Ed columnist Thomas L. Friedman, co-author of “That Used to Be Us,” on America’s decline; and Bill Keller on the career of Christopher Hitchens.
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Louise Penny

Inside the List

Entering the hardcover fiction list at No. 4 with “A Trick of the Light,” Louise Penny gets most of her ideas as she drives around in a 2006 powder blue Volkswagen Beetle convertible.

Editors’ Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

Paperback books of particular interest.
Metropolitan
BOOKSHELF
CLASS OF 2009 At the International High School at Prospect Heights in Brooklyn, students hail from 45 countries and speak more than two dozen languages.

Teenage Immigrant Dreams in the City

New books explore the International High School in Brooklyn, list the reasons to leave New York and teach the alphabet through city vistas.
Dining
Morels cooked by Françoise Branget, whose book features recipes from her colleagues in the French National Assembly.

A French Feast From a Political Pot

A deputy in the National Assembly of France asked her colleagues to contribute a favorite recipe from their regions for a cookbook promoting French gastronomy.
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Q&A
Susan Orlean, author of “Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend,” in upstate New York with her cattle. Not pictured: dog, cats, chickens, guinea fowl, ducks and turkeys.

Susan Orlean on Rin Tin Tin and Her Own Menagerie

The New Yorker writer and author of a new biography of Rin Tin Tin, the famous German shepherd, on the way we live with animals.

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