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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
HOW FICTION WORKS. By James Wood. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 265 pages. $24. James Wood, the freshly minted book critic of The New Yorker, has written an oddly dissonant little primer for readers and would-be writers of fiction. Straightforwardly arranged in 10 chapters an...
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
FURIOUS IMPROVISATION: How the WPA and a Cast Of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times. By Susan Quinn. Walker & Co. 326 pages. $25.99. When Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in 1932, the nation had lost its confidence, as well as its financial stabili...
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
KINGMAKERS: The Invention of the Modern Middle East. By Karl E. Meyer and Shareen Blair Brysac. Norton. 507 pages. $27.95. If you have ever wondered how the seemingly never-ending mess in the Middle East got cranked up, the answers are revealed authoritatively in this exce...
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
BUYING IN: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are. By Rob Walker. Random House. 291 pages. $25. If you still are bewildered why people will pay $2 for a tiny can of Red Bull, or about the resurgent popularity of the worst beer on the planet, Pabst Blue Rib...
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
SO LONG AT THE FAIR. By Christina Schwarz. Doubleday. 353 pages. $24.95. Christina Schwarz proved herself to be one of our most intuitive and nuanced portrayers of relationships with her first two novels, "Drowning Ruth" and "All is Vanity." She's a master at revealing th...
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Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008
OUTLAW JOURNALIST: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson. By William McKeen. Norton. 448 pages. $27.95. Drugs, whiskey and pure egotism all make an appearance in William McKeen's seemingly unadulterated biography of Gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson. McKeen's ...
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Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
THE CREATOR'S MAP. By Emilio Calderon. Penguin. 260 pages. $24.95. This atmospheric, well-paced espionage novel throws an everyday human being into an intriguing world of superstition and fascist politics. It's the tale of Jose Maria, a Spanish architect in 1930s Ro...
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Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
ATMOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES. By Rivka Galchen. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 240 pages. $24. Rivka Galchen's first novel, "Atmospheric Disturbances," is a brainy, convoluted tale, just the thing for sharpening up summer-slack minds. With a repertoire that includes quantum theory...
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Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
THE BOOK OF LOVE: The Story of the Kama Sutra. By James McConnachie. Henry Holt. 272 pages. $27.50. The ancient Indian "Kama Sutra" is synonymous with exotic lovemaking. Over the course of its 1,700-year history, it has represented everything from forbidden pornography to...
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Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
| STILL WATERS. By Nigel McCrery. Pantheon. 275 pages. $23.95. Every writer needs a hook, and Nigel McCrery provides just that in the prologue of "Still Waters." He throws out the line and snags the reader right away. This shocking opening is one tantalizing lead-in. Read More
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Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
SWAN PEAK. By James Lee Burke. Simon & Schuster. 402 pages. $25.95. "You have trouble with rich people, Streak," the sheriff says to deputy/detective Dave Robicheaux about halfway through "Swan Peak," the new mystery from James Lee Burke. Truer words wer...
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Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
A MENDED AND BROKEN HEART: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi. By Wendy Murray. Basic Books. 189 pages. $25.95. St. Francis of Assisi is one of the most popular of saints, and legions of writers have attempted his biography; a large number of their books also f...
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Sunday, Aug. 31, 2008
OFF SEASON. By Anne Rivers Siddons. Grand Central. 358 pages. $24.99. In her latest literary foray, "Off Season," Anne Rivers Siddons leads her readers to a rocky and remote Maine coast, stuns them with the beauty of her descriptive passages and, ultimately, with h...
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