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Joseph Mitchell gave a voice to the struggles of the city's hidden corners -- and loved it. Also: Books by Slavoj Zizek, Richard Hughes, Saher Alam, Christina Rossetti and more.
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BOOKS
Interested in changing people's lives? Forget writing a book or teaching a class! Consider being the author of a tract instead. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The prominent literary critic offers an analysis of the art of fiction writing. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The author, raised in a dysfunctional bohemian household, reconciles with her dying mother. >>
HARDBACKS
July 20, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
A policeman finds that the living are the least of his problems in this city of the dead. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A former World War II spy searches for a missing starlet and butts up against old expectations for women, Hollywood and a murder. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A family's fractures, seen through the generations. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The author weaves two hilarious, fascinating story lines -- of the young Bard during the persecution of Catholics in England and of a burned-out grad student and Shakespeare scholar of sorts. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Of sushi and overfishing: How the human appetite is sending a majestic fish toward extinction. >>
DISCOVERIES
'The End of Sleep' by Rowan Somerville; 'Undiscovered Country', Lin Enger, 'For the Love of Animals' by Kathryn Shevelow, An Irish journalist rackets around Cairo. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The author explores the sources of her hypochondria. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The allure of the ashram life not enough to carry this tale >>
BOOK REVIEW
Two early plays show the playwright obsessed with breakdowns in communication and the body. >>
PAPERBACKS
July 20, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
A sportswriter tackles the NFL >>
BOOK REVIEW
Stephen Hawking and Susskind, two titans of theoretical physics, slug it out over whether or not information is lost forever once it enters a black hole. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The Western public face and more ominous flip side of a sheikdom on the Persian Gulf. >>
Astral Weeks
In 'Zoe's Tale,' John Scalzi returns to his 'Old Man's War' series from the viewpoint of a wise-cracking teen >>
HARDBACKS
July 13, 2007 >>
BOOK REVIEW
The social critic lets fly at inequality >>
BOOK REVIEW
Novelist James Sallis remembers his friendship with the late science fiction author. >>
BOOK REVIEW
With flair, a first-time novelist sets an audacious retelling of 'Hamlet' in a Midwestern family of dog breeders. >>
BOOK REVIEW
An investigation of the latest medical advances and quandaries in the fight against dementia and Alzheimer's disease >>
BOOK REVIEW
Forever plaid? Scottish pride and tradition are more mystery than history. >>
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A novel by an award-winning Japanese author takes us deep inside the heads of some teenagers -- and those can be scary places. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A postmodern troublemaker's early western novel was aimed at entertaining and making money -- and became art nonetheless. >>
PAPERBACKS
July 13, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
Henry, William, Alice and their celebrated and dysfunctional family. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The foundations of Wilsonian foreign policy and its permutations under George W. Bush >>
BOOK REVIEW
An exhaustive, authoritative biography of Jean-Luc-Godard, one of the leaders of the New Wave style that changed modern cinema. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The novelist reflects on his career as a buyer, seller and lover of the written word. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The tale of the Federal Theatre Project, a Depression-era jobs program for artists and playwrights. >>
DARK PASSAGES
Installment by installment, 'The Lemur' by Benjamin Black follows an old trend that has become--at least among writers--popular again. >>
HARDBACKS
July 6, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
What do you do when you're middle aged, middle class and suddenly lose your job? According to this hilarious novel, you take over a dry-cleaning business that's a front for an escort service. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The collection of stories traverses the world: Colombia, Japan, Iowa, Australia, Manhattan, Iran and the South China Sea. >>
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Stories about men behaving badly >>
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The tale of four desperate brothers >>
DISCOVERIES
'Names on the Land' by George R. Stewart and 'The Nightingales of Troy' by Alice Fulton >>
BOOK REVIEW
A road trip to explore the art of American West >>
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The lives of expatriates intertwine >>
BOOK REVIEW
The tragic, engrossing story of scientist Joe Slowinski's fascination with snakes -- a fascination that finally led to his death in 2001. >>
PAPERBACKS
July 6, 2008 >>
THE SIREN'S CALL
In 'Steampunk,' an anthology edited by Ann and Jeff VanderMeer, there are unavoidable echoes of Classical myth. >>
BOOK REVIEW
American families struggle to make ends meet in a world of globalization, mortgage meltdowns and ever-soaring fuel prices. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Can the U.S. justice system survive the war on terrorism? The Brookings Institution fellow proposes a way around the current legal morass. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A history of the horse in North America >>
Hardbacks
June 29, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
A man retreats from the toils of civilization, into the Ozarks >>
BOOK REVIEW
Writer and environmental activist Rick Bass, who has lived in the remote Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana for more than two decades, describes its hold on him. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A collision of race, bigotry and family secrets. >>
BOOK REVIEW
International man of mystery? Maybe, maybe not. >>
DISCOVERIES
Mapping the wilds of Great Britain. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Angling along one long stream of consciousness >>
Paperbacks
June 29, 2008 >>
Paperback writers
The writer wandered the roads he wrote about in these heartfelt tales of desperation and desire. Also: New paperback releases by Jose Eduardo Agualusa, Marina Warner, Richard Hofstadter, Naomi Klein a >>
BOOK REVIEW
How the widows of three men killed in an Air Force plane crash were denied information, a decent settlement and emotional closure when the U.S. government exercised its 'state secrets' privilege. >>
Essay
The tiny Welsh town attracts top authors to Britain's biggest literary celebration >>
BOOK REVIEW
The visit to a Florida strip club by a jihadi in the days before Sept. 11 results in the kidnapping of a 3-year-old girl. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A senator's mistake costs him the Democratic presidential nomination and leaves his supporters morally compromised in this ambitious novel. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Enter here into the hermit world of Steve Ditko >>
HARDBACKS
June 22, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
The travails of a 'paper son' in the 1950s Chinese immigrant community of San Francisco. >>
BOOK REVIEW
An author disappears, leaving her mathematician lover 351 books as clues in this intellectual thriller. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The life and times of legendary surfer Miki Dora >>
BOOK REVIEW
African children, French artists' models and Russian comestibles >>
BOOK REVIEW
The British author's experimental novel is made up of sections that can be changed at random so that no two readings are the same. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Verse by the poet-mother of rock 'n' roll. >>
Paperbacks
June 22, 2008 >>
ASTRAL WEEKS
A new biography of Charles Fort and a collection of his writings show why Theodore Dreiser raved about him. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The Socialist leader was imprisoned under the Espionage Act, but his popularity prevailed. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Revisiting an Oregon triple murder of about a quarter-century ago. >>
BOOK REVIEW
An L.A. disc jockey leaves white America for what he believes is a more tolerant Berlin but instead finds a city with its own historical baggage. >>
Essay
Today's authors must sell their work -- and themselves. The publisher's promotional budget wouldn't cover bus fare to the book party for "Shining City." What to do? Try a hot tub, high-priced escorts and a pimp. >>
HARDBACKS
June 15, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
War and bigotry from a child's eye view -- a brilliant debut novel from a young Bosnian writer. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The story of the author's father, a Vietnamese landowner, and his struggle to survive 35 years of strife in Vietnam, from the Japanese occupation to the fall of Saigon. >>
BOOK REVIEW
This debut novel, set in New York City and an increasingly surreal Italy, ponders questions of love, loyalty and the failure to communicate. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Peregrinations, recipes, surreality and Japanese horror >>
BOOK REVIEW
A man returns to the scene of historical atrocities -- was he a victim or a participant? -- in a novella published as part of Melville House's series, "The Contemporary Art of the Novella." >>
PAPERBACKS
June 15, 2008 >>
Book excerpt
DJ Darky has a soundtrack in his head. >>
BOOKS
What are you going to read this summer? Let Book Review help you decide. >>
BOOKS & AUTHORS
A Talk With David Sedaris >>
ESSAY
A songwriter reflects on a lifetime's worth of reading--and its influence on his music >>
BOOK REVIEW
Where is the border between movies and dreams? According to the filmmaker's exuberant, outlandish sketchbook, it doesn't exist. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A savvy narrative captures the forceful personalities who shaped a genre. >>
DARK PASSAGES
Can nothing bridge the gap separating readers of true crime and crime fiction? Consider "The Monster of Florence," "The Girl with the Crooked Nose" and "The Forger's Spell." >>
HARDBACKS
June 8, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
A mall in the English Midlands is the locus of a mystery. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Skilled country music songwriters expand their reach. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A chronicle of depression and of an apprenticeship to some of Europe's skilled chefs >>
BOOK REVIEW
Comic book series integrates dreams and reality in America's heartland. >>
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Criminal investigator Lucas Davenport is enlisted to find a missing young woman. >>
PAPERBACKS
June 8, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
A collection of the delightful bubble gum card images from the early 1970s. >>
The Siren's Call
There's a Minotaur at the center of "The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher," an intriguing account of a murder in mid-19th century England. >>
WORD PLAY
Usually when I go out to interview authors, I don't feel as if I've stumbled into a slumber party. As soon as I turned up in Duke's Coffee Shop on the Sunset Strip to meet Emily Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski and Lauren Myracle to talk about their joint novel, "How to Be Bad" (HarperTeen: $16.99, ages 14 and up), I was immediately immersed in a discussion about the relative sexiness of men of different nationalities, just because of my Dutch last name. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Historical figures mingle with the fantastic in a novel that leaps time, space and reality. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Three chronicles of RFK's bid for the presidency in 1968 and its fateful consequences. >>
HARDBACKS
June 1, 2008 >>
BOOK REVIEW
The work of many years: A delicate meditation on the fragile worlds of the poet's life and art. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A novel about a surfer's coming-of-age >>
BOOK REVIEW
The history of this country's craze for bottled water. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A critic romps through continental literature. >>
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Undocumented aliens tell their stories, and a native Alaskan goes home. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Writers are stripped of their illusions in two novellas. >>
BOOK REVIEW
What exactly is going on in that frozen yogurt shop? >>
PAPERBACKS
June 1, 2008 >>
Paperback Writers
The anthology " ' Guys and Dolls' and Other Writings" gives us a fresh look at the classic writing of Damon Runyon. Also: New paperback releases by Saul Friedlander, Fred Vargas, Peter Schrag and more. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The ghosts of the Tiananmen Square uprising still haunt today. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Carly Simon set the tone for a generation of women. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The soldiers, their superiors and the culture of denial that led to the appalling treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Dorothea Lange chronicled the nation. >>
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Bishop Paul Moore's daughter reflects on her late father's closeted homosexuality. >>
ESSAY
Susan Straight on winning the Edgar award for her short story, 'The Golden Gopher' >>
BOOK REVIEW
Office workers struggle to survive in this painfully accurate satire >>
BOOK REVIEW
The renowned political philosopher writes on the revival of Confucianism transforming Chinese politics and society. >>
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