Today's Book News
| Bestsellers |
One Day tops the bestseller book list again
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
Anne Hathaway movie reignites interest in novel by David Nicholls as it sells 60,000 copies in a week.
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| NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Fiction, Week Of Aug. 25, 2011
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Jennifer Egan takes a ride through time in A Visit from the Goon Squad, on the list for a 22nd week.
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| NPR Bestsellers: Paperback Nonfiction, Week Of Aug. 25, 2011
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Let's Take The Long Way Home, Gail Caldwell's story of friendship, is on the list for a second week.
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| Winehouse album becomes century's bestseller (AP)
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
AP - Amy Winehouse is still hitting music milestones after her untimely death last month.
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| NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Nonfiction, Week Of Aug. 25, 2011
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Plenty , Yotam Ottolenghi's veggie cookbook, returns to the list for a third week.
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| NPR Bestsellers: Hardcover Fiction, Week Of Aug. 25, 2011
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Ernest Cline's 1980s arcade-inspired novel, Ready Player One , debuts at No. 13.
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| Biographies |
The Genius in My Basement: the Biography of a Happy Man by Alexander Masters – review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
The author of Stuart: A Life Backwards returns with another portrait of an amiable misfit – this time a former maths prodigy-turned-chaotic recluse The moment that made a success of Alexander Masters's first book, Stuart: A Life Backwards , is described in its opening pages. Masters's homeless street. raconteur, Stuart Shorter, tells...
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| Nick Clegg: The Biography by Chris Bowers – review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
There is something highly unusual about Nick Clegg, as Chris Bowers points out in a swiftly assembled biography. But quite what that is remains elusive They are a strange and hectic breed, the political books rushed out within months of any election or leadership contest. They're not classically. political biographies, since they...
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| The Genius in My Basement by Alexander Masters
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
An unusual biography of a mathematician and public transport addict In 2008, at a Downing Street reception, Gordon Brown presented a young man, a member of Plane Stupid , with a Transport Campaigner of the Year award. During the ceremony, the young man superglued himself to the premier's sleeve . The prize is sponsored – £10,000 a year...
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| 'I still feel as if I'm faking it'
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
He's one of America's most celebrated authors, yet Tobias Wolff still worries he'll disappoint. He talks to Xan Brooks about the challenges of the memoir game and measuring up to the 'great father', Hemingway As a child, Tobias Wolff rode shotgun across 1950s America with his single mum at the wheel. They were in search of adventure...
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| Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
The conclusion to Benjamin Markovits's trilogy of novels about Byron is an intriguing tale within a tale Readers who have followed the project through will expect Childish Loves to be the completion of a trilogy of biographical novels about the poet Byron by the London-based American-German writer. Benjamin Markovits: following...
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| 'In My Time': Dick Cheney's Unapologetic Memoir
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Call it spin, score settling or setting the record straight: Former Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir of his extraordinary political career is out next week. Robert Siegel talks with Charlie Savage of the New York Times . Savage got an early copy of the book, entitled In My Time .
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| Books of The Times: Dick Cheney Tells His Side in Memoir ‘In My Time’ - Review
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
The famously tight-lipped Dick Cheney reveals his “undisclosed locations” and disagreements he had with the president and administration officials in his memoir of the Bush years.
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| TBR: Inside the List
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Penn Jillette, the taller and louder half of Penn & Teller, appears on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 14 with his profanity-laced memoir-cum-atheist-manifesto “God, No!”
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| Letter: O’Keeffe Unbrushed
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
A reader responds to a recent review of “My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.”
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| Report: Cheney says he advised Bush to bomb Syria (AP)
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
AP - Former Vice President Dick Cheney writes in his new memoir that President George W. Bush rejected his advice in 2007 to bomb a suspected nuclear reactor site in Syria.
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| Is Washington ready for Dick Cheney's explosive memoir?
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Cheney dishes on his health, the Sept. 11 attacks, a secret resignation letter, and the mistakes of George Tenet, Colin Powell, and Condoleezza Rice.
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| Wendy and the Lost Boys - By Julie Salamon - Book Review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
A biography of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein reveals a full and complicated life.
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| 'Matterhorn' author's memoir of war on sale next week
Tue, 23 Aug 2011
Last year, Karl Marlante's powerhouse Vietnam war novel 'Matterhorn' was praised for its authenticity and gut-wrenching battle scenes. This .
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| Cheney's memoir: few apologies, some evasion, and critical words for Condi Rice
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
An early review of Cheney's "In My Time" suggests that readers of the memoir will react more with frustration than with anger.
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| The Enigma of Joseph Heller
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
A biography and a memoir examine the life and career of the author of “Catch-22.”
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| 10 best political biographies - in pictures
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Ex-labour MP Chris Mullin's choice of political page-turners
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| Children's |
Peter Pan – review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
York Theatre Royal From its first appearance on 27 December 1904, the appeal of JM Barrie's story about "the boy who wouldn't grow up" was intergenerational. Children relished its adventures; adults either enjoyed the story as a parable of lost youth or dismissed it as drama while dissecting its psychological. implications. So great was...
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| Up Front: Dan Kois
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
An avid chronicler of Harry Potter’s exploits, Dan Kois is also the creator of Ron Weasley’s Facebook page and wrote an obituary for Hedwig the owl.
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| Children's Books : Children's Books - Picture Books About Sick Days
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
“Llama Llama Home with Mama” and “Bear’s Loose Tooth” are two new picture books that deal with childhood fevers, aches and pains.
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| Lee Child's short story e-book breaks into Best-Selling Books top 10
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Need proof that ex-military cop Jack Reacher has an ardent fan base? Second Son: A Reacher Story, an original short story available only as an .
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| Author Vanessa Diffenbaugh sends 'Flowers'
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
The debut novelist writes about a foster child who wants only to be surrounded by flowers. Ballantine Books snapped up the story.
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| Books to get kids back into the reading routine
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
School's in session for Skippyjon Jones, Marshall Armstrong, Mr. Creacher and Stuey Lewis.
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| Comics |
My life as an action hero
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
When Jonathan Ross found himself "between jobs" after leaving the BBC, he finally had the time to do what he'd always wanted – write his own comic. Here, he explains his lifelong love affair with masked men and caped crusaders I have loved comics all my life. Always read them, always will. I've tried. to work out exactly what it is about...
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| Confronted with evil, Wodehouse made a ghastly error | Robert McCrum
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
The latest revelations about PG Wodehouse only serve to point up his naivety, not any dark intent on his part PG Wodehouse is a writer of genius whose plots teem with brilliant comic vicissitudes. Privately, he was also a lifelong connoisseur of the snakes and ladders of everyday life. "Isn't it the. damnedest thing," he wrote to a...
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| Comic Book Review: Marksmen #1 by David Baxter, Javier Aranda and Gerry Leach
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter The hero surveying said emptiness (which we're told is Apache Junction, Arizona, even though an interstate sign is clearly marked "California") is Sgt. Drake McCoy, a lone wolf type scouting the desolate landscape for retrievable technology to take back to one of. the few surviving cities, New San...
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| Welcome Superman and Batman onto your Android phone with DC Comics (Appolicious)
Tue, 23 Aug 2011
Appolicious - Instead of a stack of current comics on your nightstand, you can have a neatly organized database on your Android phone. Not only is this more convenient, but it's more portable.
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| Fiction |
Childish Loves by Benjamin Markovits – review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Benjamin Markovits leads us through a series of dazzling narrative hoops in the triumphant end to his Byron trilogy People tend to want their novels to be real – about real life and believable characters, or written in such a way as to make us think that even the most fantastic worlds are possible. But Benjamin Markovits challenges all...
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| Kehua! A Ghost Story by Fay Weldon – review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Fay Weldon's novel about guiding spirits and the mortals they influence sees her becoming half spook herself to brilliant effect This is a haunting book, in more ways than the obvious. Kehua are spirits, bat-like flutters, those flashes and whispers one catches on the periphery of sound and vision. They happen to be Maori but could be...
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| Michael Ondaatje: The divided man
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Novelist and poet Michael Ondaatje, who won the Booker prize for The English Patient, draws on his own extraordinary life to conjure up evocative tales of duality and displacement. Robert McCrum asks how much reality there is in his fiction… The eyes of Michael Ondaatje, prize-winning author of The. English Patient , are a baffling...
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| Fancy a BA in Science Fiction?
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
From Attention Economics to Reality Engineering, curriculums adapted for 21st-century life are crucial for our survival - and surely SF should be the next subject to be added It's hard to know what the future will bring: the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't be the past. This is a truth. that seems to have eluded the current...
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| American Gods by Neil Gaiman
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Week two: the road narrative Neil Gaiman's fantasy novel American Gods is a version of that most American genre, the road narrative. The author sends his protagonist, Shadow, by car and sometimes by Greyhound bus on long journeys criss-crossing the midwest of the United States. Though all the book.'s characters are American – even the...
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| Girl meets boy in fiction from New Yorker humorist (AP)
Mon, 22 Aug 2011
AP - "Starting From Happy" (Scribner), by Patricia Marx: Patricia Marx, an alumna of the Harvard Lampoon and "Saturday Night Live," is a very funny writer. At The New Yorker, she writes the On and Off the Avenue column, where she delivers high-end shopping tips — gifts for the. new college graduate, for instance...
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| Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig- review
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Stories from the baffling side of life Peirene Press is devoted to publishing short European fiction (most often French or German; in this instance translated from "the Austrian German"), the kind of stuff that would never normally get published here because it's (a) short and (b) European. Do you. know the imbalance between how much...
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| Interview: Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Author of Black & Orange
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter Benjamin Kane Ethridge's fiction has appeared in Doorways Magazine, Dark Recesses, FearZone, and others.Beyond that he's written several collaborations with Michael Louis Calvillo, one of which is a novella called Ugly Spirit, available in 2011.The Rhetoric of Horror. Fiction and Film.On Halloween a...
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| Summer Blend Book Club Wraps Up
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
This series began in June with the help of Heidi Durrow, author and co-founder of the "Mixed Roots Film & Literary Festival." All summer long, Tell Me More has been covering books about the multicultural experience in America. Durrow checks back in with host Michel Martin to discuss the novels in the. program's Summer Blend Book Club...
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| The Submission by Amy Waldman
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
Amy Waldman's exceptional debut novel looks at a changing America Perhaps the representatives of fiction writing and non-fiction writing in America didn't gather in a smoke-filled room at the end of 2001 and divide territory. Perhaps the fiction writers didn't claim for themselves the individual tales. of trauma around the day itself...
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| Review: 'In Praise Of Reading And Fiction'
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
The remarks of Mario Vargas Llosa at the Nobel lecture celebrating his receipt of the prize for literature in 2010 have been published. The speech praises the value of fiction. Alan Cheuse, who teaches writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va., has a review — and contrasts Llosa's thoughts with. those of novelist Phillip Roth...
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| Lippman's new stand-alone novel drags a bit (AP)
Tue, 23 Aug 2011
AP - "The Most Dangerous Thing" (William Morrow), by Laura Lippman. In 1979, two girls and three boys on the brink of adolescence spent an idyllic summer exploring heavily wooded Leakin Park on the outskirts of Baltimore. But one day, something happened there that none of them wanted to talk. about.
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| 'Flash And Bones': A High-Speed Murder Mystery
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Kathy Reichs, a forensic anthropologist, is the author of the books that inspired the Fox TV series Bones. Her latest novel kicks off with a gruesome discovery: a body stashed in a drum full of asphalt and tossed in a landfill at a North Carolina speedway.
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| Speaking Of Foster Care In 'The Language Of Flowers'
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Victoria Jones is often sullen, silent and hostile, but she learns to communicate through flowers. Vanessa Diffenbaugh's debut novel tells the story of this woman, who struggles to overcome her troubled childhood spent in a series of foster homes.
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| New In Paperback: August 22-28
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
Veteran best-seller Ken Follett returns with the first in a trilogy spanning the 20th century, while Jan Karon delivers with her second Father Tim novel. In nonfiction, Jimmy Carter reveals his White House Diary , while Ariana Huffington finds America resembling the Third World.
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| After The Rapture, Who Are 'The Leftovers'?
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
What if the rapture actually occurred? That's the plot of Tom Perrotta's new novel The Leftovers , which examines the aftermath of an unexplained rapturelike event in which millions of people around the globe inexplicably disappear into thin air.
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| The Leftovers - By Tom Perrotta - Book Review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Tom Perrotta’s new novel examines how ordinary people react to extraordinary situations in the wake of a rapturelike event that has whisked millions of people off the face of the earth.
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| Chinese writers call for more translations (AP)
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
AP - More Chinese books need to be translated and more thought-provoking ideas used in novels to elevate China's literary standing in the world, some of the country's top writers said Friday.
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| Booktrack Introduces E-Books With Soundtracks
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Booktrack, a start-up company in New York, is planning to release e-books with soundtracks that play throughout the books, a technology that its founders hope will change the way many novels are read.
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| The Buddha in the Attic - By Julie Otsuka - Book Review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
In Julie Otsuka’s novel, Japanese women sail to America in the early 1900s to become the wives of men they have not met.
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| Interviews |
Interview: Elizabeth Parkinson Bellows, Author of Alexander Drake's Extraordinary Pursuit
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter Elizabeth Parkinson Bellows is the author of Alexander Drake's Extraordinary Pursuit, a tale of mystery and imagination.When did you first know you could be a writer?Watching them play pretend all day makes me want to write into the evening.Fantasy!! The only limits. are my own imagination.Little did...
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| Interview: Sherree Funk, Author of Peter: Rock Star of Galilee
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter Sherree Funk is an author and is extremely passionate about sharing her love and knowledge of God's word.Do you weigh the reaction of your audience when you are writing and change anything because of it?If I read over a section and realize my audience would be bored., I start over, keeping it simple...
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| Reviews |
Rewind radio: D for Discretion; Old Grey Whistle Test 40; Village SOS – review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Naomi Grimley lifted the lid on the D-notice system, while Alice Cooper had a secret of a different sort to impart as The Old Grey Whistle Test marked its 40th anniversary D for Discretion: Can the Modern Media Keep a Secret? (R4) | iPlayer Old Grey Whistle Test 40 (R2) | iPlayer Village. SOS (R4) | iPlayer Half an hour...
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| Honey Money: The Power of Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim – review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Should women trade on their 'erotic capital' to get ahead? There is so much to object to in this book that it is hard to know where to start. Even the title makes me grimace: "No money, no honey" is an expression supposedly used by Jakarta prostitutes and alluded to here to underline Catherine Hakim. 's belief that all women should be...
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| The Beach Beneath the Street by McKenzie Wark – review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Christopher Bray has his consciousness expanded by a lively history of the situationists This is just a guess, but I'd say McKenzie Wark will be updating his history of the Situationist International for the paperback edition. The parallels it draws between the troubles of May 68 and last year's student. attack on Prince Charles's...
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| Book Review: The Rhythm of Family: Discovering a Sense of Wonder through the Seasons by Amanda Blake Soule
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter By choosing to orient their lives around the rhythms of the natural world, the Soules have opened themselves up to finding joy in simplicity and they send out a welcoming call for us to do the same.Through their intentional selection of that which could have slipped. into the mundane (a family picnic...
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| Book Review: Black And White: From Snapshots To Great Shots by John Batdorff
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter With the advent of the digital camera, the methods and techniques for creating black and white images have changed drastically since the days of film.From Snapshots To Great Shots is to provide step-by-step instruction from taking the shot, through the color conversion., and final processing, so that...
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| eBook Review: Field Notes: A Photographic Journey by Jason Odell, Ph D.
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter Field Notes: A Photographic Journey is a reflective voyage that will take you to a variety of spots that the author has traveled down as an outdoor photographer.In Field Notes: A Photographic Journey, you will find a wide variety of images in which are presented. the technical details of the both the...
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| Book Review: Mom Rules: Notes on Motherhood, the World's Best Job by Jill Milligan and Michael Milligan
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter [.] I like the compact size of the book, it is not too big and it is also easy to carry around plus the fonts are really easy on the eyes.The colorful pictures in this book are cute and humorous to look at and I love the statement on page 2 where it says "although. motherhood ranks at the top of the...
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| Book Review: Taking Punk to the Masses: From Nowhere to Nevermind by Jacob McMurray
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
share: digg facebook twitter For anyone with an interest in the Seattle music scene of the 1980s and '90s, the subgenre that became known as grunge, Taking Punk to the Masses:Taking Punk to the Masses, the acclaimed exhibit he curated for Seattle's Experience Music Project.Like the exhibit itself., the book goes far beyond...
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| The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising by Jean-Pierre Filiu: review
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
As Libyans rejoice, Simon Scott Plummer admires The Arab Revolution: Ten Lessons from the Democratic Uprising by Jean-Pierre Filiu, a bold and timely portrait of the complexities of the Arab world.
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| Archive: Book Review Podcast
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Featuring Tom Perrotta on the fictional rapture in his new book, “The Leftovers”; Erica Heller reminisces about her father, the “Catch-22” author, Joseph Heller.
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| Review: `Flash and Bones' is intriguing puzzle (AP)
Mon, 22 Aug 2011
AP - "Flash and Bones" (Scribner), by Kathy Reichs: Kathy Reichs delivers another stellar effort in her Dr. Temperance Brennan forensic series with "Flash and Bones."
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| Books of The Times: ‘Just My Type: A Book About Fonts’ by Simon Garfield - Review
Mon, 22 Aug 2011
“Just My Type: A Book About Fonts” is an accessible book that makes typography noticeable and fun for people who had no idea they were interested in the subject.
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| Letter: The Big Scrum
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
A reader responds to a recent review of John J. Miller’s “The Big Scrum: How Teddy Roosevelt Saved Football.”
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| The Secret Life of Pronouns - By James W. Pennebaker - Book Review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
A psychologist argues that pronouns, articles, prepositions, auxiliary verbs and conjunctions reflect our interior lives.
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| ArtsBeat Blog: Book Review Podcast: Tom Perrotta's 'Leftovers'
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
Featuring Tom Perrotta on the fictional Rapture in his new book, "The Leftovers"; and Erica Heller on her father, Catch-22 author Joseph Heller.
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| Letter: Beginning Infinity: Culture vs. Geology
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
A reader responds to a recent review of David Deutsch’s “Beginning of Infinity.”
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| Sabbioneta Cryptic City by James Madge: review
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
English architect James Madge's tribute to a beautiful and intriguing Italian city that has remained a well-kept secret.
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| The Magician King - By Lev Grossman - Book Review
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
A sequel to “The Magicians” revolves around an unexpected quest.
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| Beautiful Thing: Inside the Secret World of Bombay's Dance Bars by Sonia Faleiro: review
Tue, 23 Aug 2011
Basharat Peer looks into the murky world of Bombay's Dance Bars, reviewing a new book by Sonia Faleiro.
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| Are we awash in a sea of fabricated reviews?
Tue, 23 Aug 2011
Increasingly, writers-for-hire are paid to write glowing online reviews of books they haven’t read.
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| General |
The Katharine Whitehorn experience
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
Buying books online may be convenient, but where's the banter? You probably know the conversation: about a library closing, or whether my bookshop people are as charming as yours; then someone will say in superior tones that surely it's all easier and cheaper online – AbeBooks or Amazon – and chatter. about Kindle kindling the heart with...
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| Mark Kermode: How to make an intelligent blockbuster and not alienate people
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
In this highly charged polemic, the Observer film writer and 5 Live critic tackles the big-budget producers for their cynical rejection of intelligent movies – and contempt for the ordinary cinemagoers who fill their pockets Here are three absolute truths: 1. The world is round. 2. We are all going. to die. 3. No one enjoyed Pirates...
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| What is the future of the Union?
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
The future of the 200-year link between England and Scotland has never been more hotly debated. We asked some of Scotland's best known writers for their opinions on the state of this marriage is and what independence might mean for their home country Iain Banks: 'Scotland could have a future as a completely. independent country' Iain...
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| It's too soon to wave goodbye to the magical art of travel writing | Michael Jacobs
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
The internet may have made redundant the Victorian type of travel book, full of facts and figures, but it's a form of literature that can still thrive 'Hugh Grant loses his bookshop in Notting Hill" was the headline on an article that appeared last week in my local Spanish newspaper. International interest. in London's Travel Bookshop...
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| Eyes Above the Street: The High Line’s Second Installment
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Martin Filler Friends of the High Line Rarely do additions to works of architecture or engineering by the same designers who created the originals attract as much comment as the initial installments. Thus there was some question as to just how much excitement could be generated by the debut. this June of the second segment of...
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| Letter From Rome: Scandal Among the Plutocrats
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
Ingrid D. Rowland Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images Piero Marrazzo at the Rome Film Festival, October 15, 2009 Italy, from many standpoints, is in dreadful shape. The news is out and inescapable. People in the rest of the world wonder why, in the face of a stagnant economy and pervasive. corruption, the country continues to...
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| The Artist of Disappearance by Anita Desai
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Anita Desai writes about the secret part of all human beings that can create, no matter how wretched our circumstances Anita Desai's new book is her best since Fasting, Feasting and shares the apocalyptic vision of her extraordinary Fire on the Mountain . India's greatest living writer has always. hidden devastating criticisms of...
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| It takes judgment, not taste, to pick a Booker winner
Fri, 26 Aug 2011
The challenge facing this year's Booker judges reminds us that recognising excellence in literature is about far more than personal opinion The longlist for the Man Booker 2011 came out last month , and I don't even recognise half the names. Some of the old favourites are there – Barnes, Barry, Hollinghurst. – but a lot are not. I like...
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| Not the Booker: Jude in London
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
This dazzling yet brittle work has satire inside philosophical ideas inside nob gags. I liked it – what did you make of it? Jude in London: read an extract In 2007, Julian Gough wrote in Prospect magazine that "the task of the novelist is … not to fake a coherence that does not exist, but to capture. the chaos that does. And in so...
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| Lonely literature
Wed, 24 Aug 2011
The author picks out the best of literature's lonely odysseys, from Colm Tóibín's The Master to Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day Teju Cole is a writer, art historian and street photographer. Born in the US in 1975 to Nigerian parents, he was raised in Nigeria and now lives in Brooklyn. He is. the author of two books: a novella...
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| All Over the Map: Writing on Buildings and Cities by Michael Sorkin
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
America's most invigorating writer on architecture is at his best when defending the importance of uncompromised public space Michael Sorkin has long been America's most invigorating writer on architecture. His preferred medium is the medium-sized article, journalistic not academic, and his standpoint. that of an enraged but forever...
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| China’s ‘Liberation’ of Tibet: Rules of the Game
Mon, 22 Aug 2011
Robert Barnett Xinhua Audience members at the ceremony for 'the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of Tibet,' Lhasa, July 19, 2011 Much of the talk about Vice President Joe Biden’s four-day visit to China last week centered on the man who hosted him: Xi Jinping, expected to become the. country’s next president in 2012...
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| 'I just want to tell a story'
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Prolific author Peter Ackroyd talks to Euan Ferguson about his monumental six-part history of England For anyone struggling to summon the self-discipline and due diligence to write even one book, a visit to Peter Ackroyd's first-floor Bloomsbury flat could prompt a month's worth of guilty nightmares., the comparison between his...
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| Walking Away From A Mixed Race Family?
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Fantine's light skin gets her mistaken for Algerian, Samoan and Hawaiian. It's her ticket to an independent jet-setting life. But when her godson gets in trouble, she's forced to go home. Host Michel Martin discusses Take One Candle Light A Room with author Susan Straight.
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| Author: 'Three Cups of Tea' claims groundless (AP)
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
AP - Claims that Greg Mortenson committed fraud by fabricating events in his books "Three Cups of Tea" and "Stones Into Schools" are groundless, the author and humanitarian's attorneys said Friday.
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| College Freshmen Learn From 'Henrietta Lacks'
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Many colleges assign books that all incoming freshmen must read over the summer. A popular 2011 assignment is The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, about a cell line taken without consent from a black woman with cervical cancer.
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| ArtsBeat Blog: Lineup for 2011 New Yorker Festival Is Announced
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
Chris Colfer, Aziz Ansari, Amy Poehler, Nancy Pelosi and Richard Dawkins will be among the actors, performers, comedians, politicians, bigwigs, authors and atheist contrarians appearing at the festival.
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| P G Wodehouse: filthy traitor or frightful ass?
Sat, 27 Aug 2011
The publication of secret MI5 documents has rekindled the decades-long debate over the author's broadcasts from Nazi Germany. William Langley weighs the evidence.
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| PG Wodehouse worried how much Nazis would pay for propaganda, MI5 files show
Thu, 25 Aug 2011
PG Wodehouse, the author of the Jeeves and Wooster stories, worried about how much the Nazis would pay him for his notorious wartime radio broadcasts from Germany, newly-released MI5 files disclose.
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| ArtsBeat Blog: Thinking Cap: The Seemingly Persistent Rise of Plagiarism
Tue, 23 Aug 2011
Four of every five dissertations examined in a study by Dora D. Clarke-Pine, an associate professor of psychology, contained passages with 10 or more words copied without proper attribution.
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