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Books Update

June 8, 2012

Books Update

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'Canada'

By RICHARD FORD
Reviewed by ANDRE DUBUS III

In Richard Ford's novel, a teenage boy's life is changed when his parents make the unlikely decision to rob a bank.

Up Front: Andre Dubus III

Also in the Book Review

'People Who Eat Darkness'

By RICHARD LLOYD PARRY
Reviewed by SUSAN CHIRA

An account of the murder of a young British woman in Japan.

'A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman'

By ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS
Reviewed by DONNA RIFKIND

A historian's study of the dramatist with a genius for the concise phrase and the provocative gesture.

'College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be'

By ANDREW DELBANCO
Reviewed by MICHAEL S. ROTH

A professor deplores the current state of colleges.

'The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat'

By THOMAS MCNAMEE
Reviewed by CORBY KUMMER

Thomas McNamee traces the career of Craig Claiborne, the food critic who expanded the culinary horizons of American home cooks.

'Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power'

By STEVE COLL
Reviewed by ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Steve Coll examines the worldwide operations and political influence of Exxon Mobil.

'The Hunger Angel'

By HERTA MULLER
Reviewed by RICHARD STERN

Herta Müller's novel of a Soviet labor camp.

'The Chaperone'

By LAURA MORIARTY
Reviewed by JENNY HENDRIX

In Laura Moriarty's novel, a Midwestern matron accompanies young Louise Brooks to New York in the summer of 1922.

'The Lair'

By NORMAN MANEA
Reviewed by STEVEN HEIGHTON

Norman Manea explores the implications of exile in this novel about Romanian intellectuals living in the United States.

'The Undertow'

By JO BAKER
Reviewed by LOUISA THOMAS

This novel follows four generations of a British family, from World War I to the present.

The Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife, Elena, circa 1985.

'The Last Hundred Days'

By PATRICK McGUINNESS
Reviewed by FRANCINE PROSE

The British narrator of Patrick McGuinness's first novel is an uneasy witness to the collapse of the Ceausescu regime.

'As Texas Goes: How the Lone Star State Hijacked the American Agenda'

By GAIL COLLINS
Reviewed by LLOYD GROVE

For Gail Collins, Texas is the home of guns, deregulation and right-wing dogma.

A detainee at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in 2010.

'Power and Constraint: The Accountable Presidency After 9/11'

By JACK GOLDSMITH
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL

How presidential actions are scrutinized.

'Simon: The Genius in My Basement'

By ALEXANDER MASTERS
Reviewed by JORDAN ELLENBERG

Alexander Masters writes about meeting Simon Norton, an eccentric British mathematician.

'The Most Expensive Game in Town'

By MARK HYMAN
Reviewed by GORDON MARINO

How much are parents shelling out to give their children a leg up in sports? A heck of a lot, Mark Hyman discov

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