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May 18, 2012 Books Update


The New York Times

May 18, 2012

Books Update

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
Illustration of Toni Morrison by Tina Berning
‘Home’
By TONI MORRISON
Reviewed by LEAH HAGER COHEN
In Toni Morrison's novel, a traumatized soldier returns from the Korean War to his segregated hometown in Georgia.

Also in the Book Review

Let's Go Reading in the Car

By JUDITH SHULEVITZ
Audiobooks and road trips offer a chance to reacquaint children, and their parents, with the joy of listening to stories.

The Voice

By JOHN SCHWARTZ
A great audiobook experience depends on the reader as much as the text.

'This Will Be Difficult to Explain'

By JOHANNA SKIBSRUD
Reviewed by JESSICA LOUDIS
Whether in Paris or the Great Plains, failures to communicate fray the relationships in these tales.

'The Lower River'

By PAUL THEROUX
Reviewed by PATRICK McGRATH
In Paul Theroux's novel, an American seeks a fresh start in Africa after a 40-year absence.

'The Cause'

By ERIC ALTERMAN and KEVIN MATTSON
Reviewed by JEFF SHESOL
Eric Alterman's history of liberalism from the New Deal to the present concentrates on the men and women who have defined it.

'The Tyranny of Clichés'

By JONAH GOLDBERG
Reviewed by JOE KLEIN
Jonah Goldberg accuses liberals of lazy thinking and worse.
Survivor: Fossil remains of the horseshoe crab, which isn't a crab at all, date from 450 million years ago.

'Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms'

By RICHARD FORTEY
Reviewed by CONSTANCE CASEY
The paleontologist Richard Fortey searches out species that have endured hundreds of millions of years of planetary turmoil.

'Wichita'

By THAD ZIOLKOWSKI
Reviewed by NATALIE BAKOPOULOS
Fleeing the pressures of academia, Thad Ziolkowski's Midwestern hero is sucked into his family's schemes and strife.
Jonathan Franzen

'Farther Away'

By JONATHAN FRANZEN
Reviewed by PHILLIP LOPATE
Jonathan Franzen's essays express his love of birds and of writers, especially his friend David Foster Wallace.

'Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk'

By BEN FOUNTAIN
Reviewed by GEOFF DYER
A firefight with Iraqi insurgents is caught on tape and turns a band of soldiers into media heroes in Ben Fountain's satire.

'Chasing Venus'

By ANDREA WULF
Reviewed by JoANN C. GUTIN
With a Venusian transit imminent, 18th-century astronomers risked their lives for a chance to measure the solar system.
The author and his father, whose intelligence

'Oblivion: A Memoir'

By HECTOR ABAD. Translated by ANNE McLEAN and ROSALIND HARVEY
Reviewed by MICHAEL GREENBERG
Héctor Abad creates a sociopolitical portrait of Colombia through the telling of his family's story.
Lucia Perillo

Silver Linings

By ADAM PLUNKETT
Lucia Perillo's two collections, poems and stories, draw upon her experiences in a world that often hurts her.
Hugh Dancy

Hugh Dancy: By the Book

Hugh Dancy, currently on Broadway in "Venus in Fur" and in the film "Hysteria," wishes David Mitchell would match Philip Roth's output.

Back Page

Books With 140 Characters

By JEFF HOWE
At 64,000 members and counting, the Twitter-based reading group 1book140 is a global concern.
Toni Morrison

Inside the List

By GREGORY COWLES
Toni Morrison, whose novel "Home" enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 9 this week, remembers being confronted by a stark image of race relations as a freshman at Howard University.

Editors' Choice

Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

Paperback Row

By IHSAN TAYLOR
Paperback books of particular interest.

Book Review Podcast

This week, Joe Klein talks about Jonah Goldberg's "The Tyranny of Clichés"; Jeff Shesol discusses Eric Alterman's history of liberalism from the New Deal to the present; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
ArtsBeat

Editor's Note

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