Sunday Book Review, May 18, 2008


'Nixonland' by Rick Perlstein
BOOK REVIEW
By Jim Newton
How one man's strategy to appeal to the disaffected has helped to polarize the nation.
May 18, 2008

'The Age of Reagan' by Sean Wilentz
BOOK REVIEW
By David Greenberg
Wilentz puts the Reagan era -- which he sees as a time of political polarization and power struggle -- into historical context.
May 18, 2008

'The Battle of the Labyrinth' by Rick Riordan
BOOK REVIEW
By Denise Hamilton
Demigod Percy Jackson and friends are back to plumb labyrinthine depths.
May 18, 2008

'Hospital' by Julie Salamon
BOOK REVIEW
By Jesse Cohen
A year in the life of a major New York City hospital
May 18, 2008

'Comfort' by Ann Hood
BOOK REVIEW
By Susan Salter Reynolds
A mother's meditation on the death of her 5-year-old daughter is so raw and compelling, you feel you can't look -- yet you can't turn away.
May 18, 2008

'The Importance of Music to Girls' by Lavinia Greenlaw
BOOK REVIEW
By Peter Terzian
How rock, punk and so many other genres led a young girl out of childhood and into maturity.
May 18, 2008

'So Brave, Young, and Handsome' by Leif Enger
BOOK REVIEW
By Veronique de Turenne
In 1915, a Minnesota writer leaves his family to join a relative stranger on a westward odyssey.
May 18, 2008

'When Science Goes Wrong' by Simon LeVay
BOOK REVIEW
By Sara Lippincott
The dark side of discovery
May 18, 2008

Discoveries
BOOK REVIEW
By Susan Salter Reynolds
A novel of the Bosnian war and a trek up the West Coast from Mexico to Canada.
May 18, 2008

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May 18, 2008

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May 18, 2008