Sunday Books: coverage for July 31, 2011
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The ‘Mambo Kings’ Pulitzer winner draws us in to his world as he revisits his New York childhood filled with eclectic characters and his later literary blossoming.
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The author looks at the resurgence in wearing the veil in the Muslim world and the U.S.
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The late writer’s facility with small epiphanies is evident in these selected stories.
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In the essay collection ‘Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music,’ the New Yorker’s first rock ‘n’ roll critic reveals a keen understanding not only of the music but the music business.
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Vicky Alvear Shecter makes ancient Egypt and Rome come alive in her novel about Cleopatra’s only daughter, Cleopatra Selene.
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Three mysteries are intertwined in Sheila Kohler’s slight family drama. Summer reading? Not really, unless you like your characters stock and your prose repetitive.
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Reviewed: ‘East of the West’ by Miroslav Penkov, ‘Weeds’ by Richard Mabey, ‘A Book of Secrets’ by Michael Holroyd
