On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
Illustration of Toni Morrison by Tina Berning
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‘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.
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By JOHN SCHWARTZ
A great audiobook experience depends on the reader as much as the text.
By JOHANNA SKIBSRUD Reviewed by JESSICA LOUDIS
Whether in Paris or the Great Plains, failures to communicate fray the relationships in these tales.
By PAUL THEROUX Reviewed by PATRICK McGRATH
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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.
By JONAH GOLDBERG Reviewed by JOE KLEIN
Jonah Goldberg accuses liberals of lazy thinking and worse.
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.
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.
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.
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.
By ANDREA WULF Reviewed by JoANN C. GUTIN
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By HECTOR ABAD. Translated by ANNE McLEAN and ROSALIND HARVEY Reviewed by MICHAEL GREENBERG
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By ADAM PLUNKETT
Lucia Perillo's two collections, poems and stories, draw upon her experiences in a world that often hurts her.
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Hugh Dancy, currently on Broadway in "Venus in Fur" and in the film "Hysteria," wishes David Mitchell would match Philip Roth's output.
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By JEFF HOWE
At 64,000 members and counting, the Twitter-based reading group 1book140 is a global concern.
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.
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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.
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