viernes, 29 de marzo de 2013

Books Update. NYT

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On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'Middle C'

The protagonist of William Gass's "Middle C" is a fraudulent academic who obsessively catalogs the world's evils in the "Inhumanity Museum" in his attic.

Also in the Book Review

Elizabeth Strout

Elizabeth Strout: By the Book

The author of "The Burgess Boys" and "Olive Kitteridge" thinks the president should read Barbara Pym to give him "a few minutes to completely relax."
Pioneer: Sandra Day O'Connor with Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Elena Kagan.

'Out of Order'

Sandra Day O'Connor offers an overview of the Supreme Court's history.
Mohsin Hamid

'How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia'

Disguised as a self-help book, Mohsin Hamid's novel traces a nameless hero's journey from impoverished boy to corporate tycoon.
Margaret Wrinkle

'Wash'

A Revolutionary War veteran and his slave are locked in an intimate battle of wills in Margaret Wrinkle's first novel.

'Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire'

Andrea Stuart pursues the history of both sides of her Caribbean family.
Laleh Khadivi

'The Walking'

Two Kurdish brothers are forced to flee the ayatollah's revolution in Laleh Khadivi's novel.
A. B. Yehoshua

'The Retrospective'

In A. B. Yehoshua's novel, an Israeli film director travels to Santiago de Compostela for a tribute to his work.

'Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life'

A new biography of Karl Marx emphasizes his responses to events, not his body of ideas.
A selection of Richard Hell's ephemera and personal effects at the Fales Library at New York University.

'I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp'

The rocker and frontman for the Voidoids ruminates on his life, loves and his rift with a collaborator.
Look magazine's staged portrait of Rosa Parks in the front of a bus, December 1956.

'The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks'

This biography reveals a fiercely determined activist behind the mild-mannered lady in a hat.

'The Force of Things: A Marriage in War and Peace'

Alexander Stille looks at the discordant strains of his parents' marriage.
A girl testifies in a state investigation into corruption by two Pennsylvania judges.

Undue Process

An investigative journalist examines a juvenile justice scandal, and a maverick defense lawyer recounts his most fraught case.
Alejandro Zambra

'Ways of Going Home'

Alejandro Zambra's novel considers the legacy of Pinochet.

Nonfiction Chronicle

New books by Petra Reski, Sam Roberts, Walter Stahr and Jessica Grogan.

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