Books Update. NYT

January 4, 2013
Books Update
Fuente: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2013/01/04/books/booksupdate/index.html

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'The Twelve Tribes of Hattie'
By AYANA MATHIS
Reviewed by ISABEL WILKERSON


Set against the backdrop of the Great Migration, Ayana Mathis's novel is a brutal and poetic allegory about a family beset by tribulations.
Up Front: Isabel Wilkerso


Also in the Book Review

Francine Prose: By the Book


The author, whose recent books include "The Turning" and "Reading Like a Writer," enjoys skimming writers' memoirs for gossip about people she knows.
By the Book: Archive

'Love Song: The Lives of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya'
By ETHAN MORDDEN
Reviewed by ALLAN KOZINN


Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya inhabited several countries and genres.

'The Tale of the Heike'
Translated by ROYALL TYLER
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER BENFEY


Combining various narrative styles, Royall Tyler translates a medieval Japanese saga of pride, romance and warfare.

'A Man of Misconceptions'
By JOHN GLASSIE
Reviewed by JAD ABUMRAD


John Glassie's subject, an intensely curious 17th-century thinker, tried to explain a rapidly changing world.

'Me Before You'
By JOJO MOYES
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER


In Jojo Moyes's novel, the young assistant to a quadriplegic devises adventures they can undertake together.

'The Barbarous Years'
By BERNARD BAILYN
Reviewed by CHARLES C. MANN


Bernard Bailyn argues that the early settlers were a "mixed multitude" who created disparate American cultures.

'Love Is a Canoe'
By BEN SCHRANK
Reviewed by DEAN BAKOPOULOS


Her marriage in trouble, a young New York professional turns to the self-help book she loved as a child.

'The End of Your Life Book Club'
By WILL SCHWALBE
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA


How a man and his mother connected during her final illness.

'Life Goes On'
By HANS KEILSON. Translated by DAMION SEARLS.
Reviewed by JUDITH SHULEVITZ


Originally published in 1933, Hans Keilson's autobiographical first novel paints a bleak picture of life in Weimar Germany.

'The Physics of Wall Street'
By JAMES OWEN WEATHERALL
Reviewed by FLOYD NORRIS


Physicists have applied their science (successfully) to some of the thorniest problems in economics, James Owen Weatherall argues.

CRIME
Stolen Life
By MARILYN STASIO


In "Daddy Love," Joyce Carol Oates writes about a young boy snatched from the parking lot of a mall.

'What's a Dog For?'
By JOHN HOMANS
Reviewed by WALTER VATTER


A look at the relationship between dogs and people.

'The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets'
By DIANA WAGMAN
Reviewed by LYDIA MILLET


Diana Wagman's heroine encounters a deranged iguana owner.