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July 5, 2013
Books Update
'Lost Girls'
By ROBERT KOLKER
Reviewed by MIMI SWARTZ
The stories of troubled young women who engaged in Internet prostitution and turned up dead on Long Island.
Also in the Book Review
Christopher Buckley: By the Book
The author, most recently, of "They Eat Puppies, Don't They?" says his favorite writer is Evelyn Waugh, "even though he so despised Americans that, if he were alive to hear this compliment, he would swat it back across the net."
By the Book: Archive
'Idiopathy'
By SAM BYERS
Reviewed by JOSHUA COHEN
A novel of love, narcissism and ailing cattle.
'I Wear the Black Hat'
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Reviewed by JAMES PARKER
In these essays, Chuck Klosterman considers public perceptions of villainy and his affection for con men.
ESSAY
Deadlines
By MEGHAN O'ROURKE
Slowly progressive diseases have led writers to document their long, medicalized ends.
'Blood and Beauty: The Borgias'
By SARAH DUNANT
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER
The Renaissance Borgias and their Machiavellian magnetism.
'The Skies Belong to Us'
By BRENDAN I. KOERNER
Reviewed by BENJAMIN WALLACE-WELLS
A chronicle of the 1972 hijacking of Western Airlines Flight 701.
ArtsBeat Q. & A.: Brendan I. Koerner
'The Joker: A Memoir'
By ANDREW HUDGINS
Reviewed by BEN GREENMAN
Early on, Andrew Hudgins found a comic way to explore taboos.
'Kerrigan in Copenhagen'
By THOMAS E. KENNEDY
Reviewed by SUSANN COKAL
A dipsomaniac writes a bar guide in Thomas Kennedy's novel.
'Amy Falls Down'
By JINCY WILLETT
Reviewed by KIT REED
Jincy Willett's heroine, a reclusive novelist, gets her 15 minutes.
CRIME
Missing in Motown
By MARILYN STASIO
In Lori Roy's novel "Until She Comes Home," a murder shakes up life in a working-class Detroit neighborhood in 1958.
'My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain'
By PATRICIO PRON. Translated by MARA FAYE LETHEM.
Reviewed by MARCELA VALDES
In this novel, an Argentine born in the 1970s attempts to "solve the puzzle" of his father's life.
'The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths'
By JOHN GRAY
Reviewed by THOMAS NAGEL
John Gray reimagines our place in the world.
Fiction Chronicle
By KATIE ARNOLD-RATLIFF
New books by Anna Stothard, James Kelman, Sarah Pemberton Strong and Tara Ison.
BEST SELLERS
Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Nonfiction
Paperback Trade Fiction
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Paperback Nonfiction
All the Lists
OPEN BOOK
Interview With a Hijacker
By JOHN WILLIAMS
Brendan I. Koerner sat down with one of the two hijackers from a 1972 incident at the heart of his new book, "The Skies Belong to Us."
'Kafka: The Years of Insight'
By REINER STACH. Translated by SHELLEY FRISCH.
Reviewed by JOY WILLIAMS
Franz Kafka's life was complex and surreal, this second volume of a scholarly biography shows.
Back Page
Clunkers
By JAMES MCWILLIAMS
In the wrong hands, a sturdy, aerodynamic book can do as much harm as good.
Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES
It's wedding season, and Elin Hilderbrand's "Beautiful Day," No. 7 on the hardcover fiction list, features a bunch of cynics at a Nantucket Island ceremony.
Paperback Row
By IHSAN TAYLOR
Paperback books of particular interest.
Editors' Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast
This week, Robert Kolker talks about "Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery"; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Chuck Klosterman discusses "I Wear the Black Hat"; Meghan O'Rourke on her essay about authors "recording their own deaths as they happen"; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
Book Review Podcast: 'Lost Girls'
Founding Fathers Go Electric
A Year's Worth of Verse at Poets House
Love's Labors, Published
By JOEL LOVELL
The writer David Rakoff raced to complete his last work, a novel written in rhyme, before succumbing to cancer. With the help of friends, he beat the clock.
REVIEWS BY THE TIMES'S CRITICS
'Ready for a Brand New Beat'
'Bodies of Subversion' by Margot Mifflin
'For a Song and a Hundred Songs'
'Revolutionary Summer' by Joseph J. Ellis
'Crazy Rich Asians' by Kevin Kwan
ARCHIVE
Crime Columns
Children's Books
The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues
Editor's Note
Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail. Feel free to send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my best to respond.
John Williams
Senior Staff Editor
The New York Times on the Web
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July 5, 2013
Books Update
'Lost Girls'
By ROBERT KOLKER
Reviewed by MIMI SWARTZ
The stories of troubled young women who engaged in Internet prostitution and turned up dead on Long Island.
Also in the Book Review
Christopher Buckley: By the Book
The author, most recently, of "They Eat Puppies, Don't They?" says his favorite writer is Evelyn Waugh, "even though he so despised Americans that, if he were alive to hear this compliment, he would swat it back across the net."
By the Book: Archive'Idiopathy'
By SAM BYERS
Reviewed by JOSHUA COHEN
A novel of love, narcissism and ailing cattle.
'I Wear the Black Hat'
By CHUCK KLOSTERMAN
Reviewed by JAMES PARKER
In these essays, Chuck Klosterman considers public perceptions of villainy and his affection for con men.
ESSAY
Deadlines
By MEGHAN O'ROURKE
Slowly progressive diseases have led writers to document their long, medicalized ends.
'Blood and Beauty: The Borgias'
By SARAH DUNANT
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER
The Renaissance Borgias and their Machiavellian magnetism.
'The Skies Belong to Us'
By BRENDAN I. KOERNER
Reviewed by BENJAMIN WALLACE-WELLS
A chronicle of the 1972 hijacking of Western Airlines Flight 701.
ArtsBeat Q. & A.: Brendan I. Koerner'The Joker: A Memoir'
By ANDREW HUDGINS
Reviewed by BEN GREENMAN
Early on, Andrew Hudgins found a comic way to explore taboos.
'Kerrigan in Copenhagen'
By THOMAS E. KENNEDY
Reviewed by SUSANN COKAL
A dipsomaniac writes a bar guide in Thomas Kennedy's novel.
'Amy Falls Down'
By JINCY WILLETT
Reviewed by KIT REED
Jincy Willett's heroine, a reclusive novelist, gets her 15 minutes.
CRIME
Missing in Motown
By MARILYN STASIO
In Lori Roy's novel "Until She Comes Home," a murder shakes up life in a working-class Detroit neighborhood in 1958.
'My Fathers' Ghost Is Climbing in the Rain'
By PATRICIO PRON. Translated by MARA FAYE LETHEM.
Reviewed by MARCELA VALDES
In this novel, an Argentine born in the 1970s attempts to "solve the puzzle" of his father's life.
'The Silence of Animals: On Progress and Other Modern Myths'
By JOHN GRAY
Reviewed by THOMAS NAGEL
John Gray reimagines our place in the world.
Fiction Chronicle
By KATIE ARNOLD-RATLIFF
New books by Anna Stothard, James Kelman, Sarah Pemberton Strong and Tara Ison.
BEST SELLERS
Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
Hardcover Fiction
Hardcover Nonfiction
Paperback Trade Fiction
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Paperback Nonfiction
All the Lists
OPEN BOOK
Interview With a Hijacker
By JOHN WILLIAMS
Brendan I. Koerner sat down with one of the two hijackers from a 1972 incident at the heart of his new book, "The Skies Belong to Us."
'Kafka: The Years of Insight'
By REINER STACH. Translated by SHELLEY FRISCH.
Reviewed by JOY WILLIAMS
Franz Kafka's life was complex and surreal, this second volume of a scholarly biography shows.
Back Page
Clunkers
By JAMES MCWILLIAMS
In the wrong hands, a sturdy, aerodynamic book can do as much harm as good.
Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES
It's wedding season, and Elin Hilderbrand's "Beautiful Day," No. 7 on the hardcover fiction list, features a bunch of cynics at a Nantucket Island ceremony.
Paperback Row
By IHSAN TAYLOR
Paperback books of particular interest.
Editors' Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast
This week, Robert Kolker talks about "Lost Girls: An Unsolved American Mystery"; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Chuck Klosterman discusses "I Wear the Black Hat"; Meghan O'Rourke on her essay about authors "recording their own deaths as they happen"; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
Book Review Podcast: 'Lost Girls'
Founding Fathers Go Electric
A Year's Worth of Verse at Poets House
Love's Labors, Published
By JOEL LOVELL
The writer David Rakoff raced to complete his last work, a novel written in rhyme, before succumbing to cancer. With the help of friends, he beat the clock.
REVIEWS BY THE TIMES'S CRITICS
'Ready for a Brand New Beat'
'Bodies of Subversion' by Margot Mifflin
'For a Song and a Hundred Songs'
'Revolutionary Summer' by Joseph J. Ellis
'Crazy Rich Asians' by Kevin Kwan
ARCHIVE
Crime Columns
Children's Books
The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues
Editor's Note
Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail. Feel free to send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my best to respond.
John Williams
Senior Staff Editor
The New York Times on the Web
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