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| Bestsellers |
Yes, we're big. But Waterstone's is still passionate about books
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
We host countless reading groups, and have turned new writers into bestsellers Stuart Jeffries used six pages in your G2 section to lay the book trade's perceived ills at Waterstone's door, yet found no room to highlight how our company is at the forefront of a vibrant industry that faces great challenges. ( Sold out , 10 November). He...
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| Quirk Launches Mash-Ups Site
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
Running with the success of its mash-up titles, launched with the surprise bestseller Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Quirk Books has unveiled a Web site dedicated to its tongue-in-cheek series, QuirkClassics.com.
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| Hardcover Fiction Bestsellers For Nov.12, 2009
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
Topping the list: Barbara Kingsolver's The Lacuna , Kathryn Stockett's The Help and Dan Brown's Lost Symbol. And making their list debut: John Grisham's Ford Coutnty and Kurt Vonnegut's Look at the Birdie.
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| Biographies |
Enid Blyton banned from BBC for nearly 30 years
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Children's author Enid Blyton was banned from the BBC for nearly 30 years because the corporation thought she was a "second-rater" whose work lacked literary value. Letters and memos from the BBC archives disclose how the creator of the Famous Five and Noddy – and one of the bestselling authors of. her time – was kept off the radio as...
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| The Lemur by Benjamin Black | Book review
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
The third crime drama from John Banville's alter ego, Benjamin Black, replaces 1950s Dublin with contemporary Ireland and New York, where John Glass, a burnt-out journalist, has agreed to a fee of $1m to write the biography of his father-in-law, "Big Bill" Mulholland – "one of the fiercest and most. controversial of the last cohort of...
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| Free Radical by Vince Cable
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
Vince Cable's memoirs may be hubristic, but Roy Hattersley is happy to forgive him There is much to like about Vince Cable and much to admire. But nothing reveals the secret of his success as graphically as his persona. While Nick Clegg, his party leader, subscribes to the David Cameron theory that. successful politicians ought to look...
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| Sarah Palin's Going Rogue – uncut | TA Frank
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Exclusive - the raw, unexpurgated first draft of Sarah Palin's biography Going Rogue, complete with author's notes [ Sarah, this looks great. But we've noted a few questions and comments in this draft that we'd like to get your answers on ASAP, if you don't mind. Thanks! – eds. YOU BETCHA – SP.] Going Rogue, by Sarah Palin...
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| Review: George Carlin's autobiography is colorful (AP)
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
AP - "Last Words" (Free Press, 297 pages, $26.99), by George Carlin, with Tony Hendra: In 1987, when he was 50 years old, George Carlin decided the time had come for an autobiography from the groundbreaking comedian who had famously said "The Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television."
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| Small Montreal Publisher Is Back in Spotlight With New Jolie-Pitt Tell All
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
Transit Publishing, the small Montreal-based house that made headlines for selling the rights to Ian Halperin’s now-bestselling Michael Jackson biography Unmasked, is looking to get back in the headlines with another Halperin tell-all, this one about Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina. Jolie
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| Small Montreal Publisher Is Back in Spotlight With New Jolie-Pitt Tell All
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
Transit Publishing, the small Montreal-based house that made headlines for selling the rights to Ian Halperin’s now-bestselling Michael Jackson biography Unmasked, is looking to get back in the headlines with another Halperin tell-all, this one about Hollywood power couple Brad Pitt and Angelina. Jolie
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| AP: Palin book goes after McCain camp but not Levi (AP)
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
AP - Sarah Palin's new memoir describes heart-wrenching anguish about her teen daughter's pregnancy playing out before a national audience. But the 413-page tome doesn't contain a single reference to the father of her grandson, soon-to-be Playgirl model Levi Johnston.
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| 'Lit': Mary Karr on literature, booze and religious redemption
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
"Lit," the third memoir by "The Liars' Club" author Mary Karr, interweaves the story of Karr's love of literature and alcohol and her bumpy path toward religious redemption. Karr discusses her book Friday at Seattle's Elliott Bay Book Co.
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| Palin book goes after McCain camp
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
Sarah Palin's new memoir describes heart-wrenching anguish over her teen daughter's pregnancy playing out before a national audience, but the 413-page tome doesn't contain a single reference to her grandson's father, soon-to-be Playgirl model Levi Johnston.
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| Obama's Half-Brother Recasts Story Of Their Father
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
One person who plans to meet with President Obama during his trip to China is his half-brother, Mark Obama Ndesandjo, who lives in China. Ndesandjo has recently released a semi-autobiographical novel, revealing the abusive nature of their father.
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| 11 books vie for $40K B.C. book prize
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
An account of two near-death experiences, a tale of raising a son with a rare genetic condition and a biography of media baron William Randolph Hearst's early years will compete for the British Columbia National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction.
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| Ex-spy Plame and publisher lose memoir appeal (Reuters)
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Reuters - A former CIA agent whose unmasking led to the conviction of former Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide lost an appeal on Thursday to declassify parts of her memoir.
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| Books of The Times: Memoir Is Palin’s Payback to McCain Campaign
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Sarah Palin’s new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska.
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| Firefighting memoir scoops non-fiction award
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
St. John's editor and author Russell Wangersky has scored another literary honour for his memoir Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself.
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| If only I could have met Enid Blyton
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
Unfortunately all we Blyton fans have are the scratchy biographies and memoirs creating the picture of a domestic nightmare writes Gill Hornby.
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| Memoir 'Last Words' is pure George Carlin
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
Told in his own voice, this posthumous work by the cranky provocateur is as much a moving tribute as it is a taste of what could .
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| A Team, but Watch How You Put It
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Andre Agassi’s new memoir, “Open,” is an unusual addition to the shelves of jock autobiography.
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| The Morning After
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
Mary Karr’s third memoir layers the pangs of recovery with those of motherhood, divorce and making art.
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| Palin's memoirs triggers a boomlet of other books (AP)
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
AP - Sarah Palin may fashion herself as a go-it-alone maverick, but her book is producing a crowd.
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| Children's |
Children's Books
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Top 5 at a Glance 1. SPLENDIFEROUS CHRISTMAS, by Jane O’Connor. Illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser 2. THE CHRISTMAS SWEATER, adapted by Chris Schoebinger from the story by Glenn Beck. Illustrated by Brandon Dorman. 3. LEGO STAR WARS, by Simon Beecroft 4. NUBS, by Brian Dennis, Mary Nethery and. Kirby Larson 5. WADDLE!, written...
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| 'Twilight' Craze Inspires Manuals For Toothy Teens
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
The latest film in the teen supernatural romance series Twilight opens Friday. This installment, New Moon , pits dreamy vampires against hunky werewolves in a battle for the hearts of teenage girls across America. Meanwhile, two humorists — Joe Garden and Bob Powers — have authored self.-help books for new members of the...
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| Web Exclusive Children's Book Reviews: 11/11/2009
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
This round-up of web-exclusive children's book reviews from Publishers Weekly includes new books by Harriet Ziefert, Alan Armstrong, Claire Zulkey, and Julie Anne Peters.
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| Why Enid Blyton's greatest creation was herself
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
A new drama reveals how Enid Blyton author of The Famous Five and Noddy books was a ruthless selfpromoter exploiting her own children to further her career.
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| Kids books: A conversation with 'Strega Nona' author Tomie dePaola
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
Tomie dePaola, author of "Strega Nona's Harvest," talks about the grandmotherly Italian witch/folk healer and her magic pasta pot.
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| Comics |
Comics Programming Grows at the Miami Book Fair
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
After adding a full slate of programming focused on comics and graphic novels for the first time at last year’s fair, The Miami Book Fair International, scheduled November 8-15 in downtown Miami, returns with new additions to its slate of comics events, panels and workshops.
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| Current Events |
Who Are the Blue Dogs?
Thu, 03 Dec 2009
By Michael Tomasky A crucial fact about today's Congress, and one that even many politically astute observers may not fully appreciate, rests in the vast ideological differences between the two congressional parties. I don't mean by this that the Democrats have become uniformly liberal and the Republicans. uniformly conservative, which...
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| A One-Term President?: The Choice
Thu, 03 Dec 2009
By Garry Wills I am told by people I respect that Barack Obama cannot pull out of both Iraq and Afghanistan without becoming a one-term president. I think that may be true. The charges from various quarters would be toxic--that he was weak, unpatriotic, sacrificing the sacrifices that have been made., betraying our dead, throwing away...
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| In Evin Prison
Thu, 03 Dec 2009
By Claire Messud My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari Extraordinary events in Iran over the past six months have brought us images, voices, and narratives until recently unimaginable; they reveal, among other things, how little we understand about quotidian. life in that country since the...
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| Iraq on the Edge
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Joost R. Hiltermann For the occasional visitor such as myself, various methods exist to measure America's standing in Iraq, Iraqi suspicions and aspirations, and progress in the transfer of power, but none prove as illuminating as the checkpoints into and throughout Baghdad's Green Zone, that diminishing. symbol of the Bush...
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| 'Mad Scientists,' Building The Future For 50 Years
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
If you've used a GPS system — or if you happen to be using the Internet to read this — you can thank DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. For 50 years, the smallish, somewhat secretive division of the Pentagon has been mostly off-limits to reporters. Now author Michael Belfiore. has profiled the agency in a...
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| Palin's Book Tells Of Trouble On GOP Ticket
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
In Going Rogue , the 2008 Republican vice-presidential candidate confirms reports of tension between her aides and those of Sen. John McCain. She says she was kept "bottled up" from reporters during the campaign.
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| 'The American Civil War': a too-short book about an epic conflict
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
In "The American Civil War: A Military History," British historian John Keegan tries to compress the story of the Civil War into one volume, with less than successful results.
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| Fiction |
Axler's Theater
Thu, 03 Dec 2009
By Elaine Blair The Humbling by Philip Roth One of the rare funny moments in Philip Roth's recent novel Everyman (2006) takes place when the unnamed hero visits his parents' graves in Newark. His health has been poor, his colleagues and friends have been dying, and though he has no reason to think. that his own death is imminent, he...
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| Light on the Dark Side
Thu, 03 Dec 2009
By Paula Fox A Meaningful Life by L.J. Davis, with an introduction by Jonathan Lethem One Manhattan mid-morning in the spring of 1967, I heard the crack of a gun going off below, along the broad reach of Central Park West. I jumped up from the table where I was working on my second novel and looked. down five stories to the street...
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| Censored gay sex scenes in From Here to Eternity revealed
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
Daughter of author James Jones discloses details of cuts insisted upon by the novel's original publisher It is one of the most celebrated images in cinema, an icon of heterosexual romance: Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr kissing as the waves crash over them in the 1953 film From Here to Eternity. But. behind the Hollywood gloss is a tale...
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| Under the Dome by Stephen King
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
M John Harrison enjoys the latest blockbuster of small-town America Stephen King's new novel is predicated on, and takes its epigram from, the song "Small Town", one of country-singer James McMurtry's savagely compressed and contemptuous indictments of American life. "It's a small town, son," McMurtry. sings, "and we all support the team...
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| Science fiction's realist
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
The novelist tells Alison Flood about time travel, Galileo and why SF writers aren't prophets any more As his publisher Jane Johnson, an author herself, puts the finishing touches to a roast chicken in the kitchen, Kim Stanley Robinson – Stan – tries to explain his new theory of time travel, worked. out for his latest novel, Galileo...
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| Crime scenes
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
In today's podcast we talk to "the demon dog of American crime fiction", James Ellroy, about his latest book, Blood's a Rover - the final part of his magisterial Underworld USA trilogy which covers a 14-year stretch of American history from 1958 to 1972. He tells Xan Brooks about why he has no interest. in writing about the modern world...
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| Busting a 'grotesque stereotype'
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
When she was 10, Joan Waugh did what millions of eager readers have done over the decades since its 1936 publication: She read Margaret Mitchell's "Gone With the Wind" again and again, admiring Scarlett O'Hara's resourcefulness and pluck, swooning over a handsome scalawag named Rhett Butler and savoring. the novel's descriptions of the...
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| Review: Orhan Pamuk's spins a twisted love story (AP)
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
AP - "The Museum of Innocence" (Knopf, 544 pages, $26.95), by Orhan Pamuk: Kemal, the lovelorn protagonist of Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk's new novel, is a sort of Gatsby on the Bosphorus. He is uppercrust, cringe-inducing and, of course, harbors an obsession with a woman he can never. really have.
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| Rice's new novel follows hit man-turned-angel aide (AP)
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
AP - "Angel Time" (Alfred A. Knopf, 288 pages, $25.95), by Anne Rice: A hardened 28-year-old hit man is given a second chance at life when an angel asks him to use his wits, cunning and courage to help answer people's prayers, instead of cutting them short.
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| LaHaye Pens New Series for Zondervan
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Tim LaHaye, co-author of the megaselling Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels, has switched publishers and will partner with lawyer-author Craig Parshall on a new apocalyptic series. Zondervan said it had signed LaHaye and Parshall to produce The End.
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| LaHaye Pens New Series for Zondervan
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Tim LaHaye, co-author of the megaselling Left Behind series of apocalyptic novels, has switched publishers and will partner with lawyer-author Craig Parshall on a new apocalyptic series. Zondervan said it had signed LaHaye and Parshall to produce The End.
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| These Days, Anne Rice Prefers Angels
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Anne Rice doesn't write about vampires anymore, but in her latest book she turns her attention to another supernatural being: angels. Host Liane Hansen talks with Anne Rice about contemporary vampire fervor and her novel, Angel Time .
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| Veteran Journalist Wins Canada’s Giller Prize
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
This year’s winner of the richest prize for fiction in Canada, the Scotiabank Giller Prize, is veteran journalist and author Linden MacIntyre for his second novel The Bishop’s Man published by Random House Canada.
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| Hardcover Fiction
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Top 5 at a Glance 1. FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham 2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown 3. KINDRED IN DEATH, by J. D. Robb 4. THE GATHERING STORM, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson 5. THE LACUNA, by Barbara Kingsolver
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| TBR: Inside the List
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
It’s not even Thanksgiving, and some Christmas-related books are already creeping up the list and Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel, “The Lacuna,” enters the hardcover fiction list at No. 5.
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| Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Top 5 at a Glance 1. BORN OF FIRE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon 2. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham 3. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson 4. YOUR HEART BELONGS TO ME, by Dean Koontz 5. ANGELS AT CHRISTMAS, by Debbie Macomber
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| Paperback Trade Fiction
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Top 5 at a Glance 1. PUSH, by Sapphire 2. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts 3. SAY YOU’RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan 4. THE SHACK, by William P. Young 5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
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| Giller winner wrote out of desire to dig deeper
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
CBC journalist and Giller-winning author Linden MacIntyre says he turned to fiction to tell a story of abuse inside the Catholic church because he found he could go deeper into the story.
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| Books of The Times: In a Sketchy Hall of Mirrors, Nabokov Jousts With Death and Reality
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
In “The Original of Laura,” fragments of a novel that Nabokov left unfinished at his death, he imagines the death of his protagonist as a sort of Nietzschean act of will.
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| Linden MacIntyre wins Canadian literature award (AP)
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
AP - Linden MacIntyre, an investigative journalist who wrote a novel about sexual abuse by Catholic priests, has won one of Canada's most prestigious literary awards.
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| Interviews |
French novelist hits back after MP says she must show greater 'reserve'
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
Goncourt prize winner Marie MDiaye says politician's call for her to tone down criticism of Sarkozy is 'grotesque' The winner of this year's Goncourt prize has spoken out against an MP's "grotesque" calls for her to tone down her criticisms of the French government. In an interview with Libération., the French-Senegalese novelist Marie...
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| Sexblogger's tale: How my life changed forever | Zoe Margolis
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
It's not easy being outed. Three years ago I was doorstepped by the Sunday Times; as I opened my front door, a secret photographer took photos of me. The paper then threatened to use these in their exposé of me, in the hope I would succumb to vanity and agree to an interview and photoshoot. The spread. ran – without my contributing...
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| 'I'm fine as wine in the summertime'
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
She's 81 and growing frail, but revered author and poet Maya Angelou has lost none of her legendary wisdom and humour. In a rare interview, she explains why she's not about to retire During a trip to Senegal, Maya Angelou called Samia, a friend she had made in Paris several years before, and was. invited over for dinner. Passing a...
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| Non-Fiction |
Hardcover Nonfiction
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Top 5 at a Glance 1. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom 2. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 3. WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell 4. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others 5. THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL, by Bill Simmons
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| Poetry |
American Pastoral
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Jonathan Raban Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits by Linda Gordon Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field by Anne Whiston Spirn Published in 1935 in the middle of the Depression, William Empson's Some Versions of Pastoral casts a hard modern light on sixteenth.- and seventeenth-century poems...
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| A Century of Poetry Review
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
Blake Morrison celebrates the ups and downs of the Poetry Society and its journal's centenary With the handover of the laureateship, the Oxford poetry professorship debacle, the 30th anniversary of Radio 4's Poetry Please and a major promotion on BBC television, poetry has been much in the news this. year. But one event to pass almost...
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| Prizes |
Linden MacIntyre wins Giller Prize
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
Linden MacIntyre, co-host of CBC's The Fifth Estate, has won the Giller Prize for his book The Bishop's Man, which deals with the sensitive topic of sexual abuse by Catholic priests.
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| Reviews |
Midway: Message from the Gyre
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
Chris Jordan An albatross chick on Midway Atoll, raised on plastic that its parents mistook for food from the polluted Pacific Ocean, September 2009; photographs by Chris Jordan These photographs of albatross chicks, the first of which appeared in a recent New York Review article by Tim Flannery. , were made just a few weeks ago...
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| Review: New York's bumpy history as a food capital (AP)
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
AP - "Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York" (North Point Press. 368 pages. $30), by William Grimes: New York's role as a fancy food capital began in the early 1800s as a pastry shop near the foot of Manhattan, run by two brothers — Giovanni and Pietro Delmonico from. Ticino, the Italian-speaking part of...
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| The Company They Kept: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships | Book review
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
This collection of essays by writers on their friends, all of which were first published in the New York Review of Books , throws up a few oddities from the outset. The remit goes beyond the potentially incestuous world of literature to include music, art and science, and so there are reminiscences. from Robert Oppenheimer on Einstein...
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| Loans to the Poorest: Where Does the Money Really Go?
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Sue Halpern and Nicholas Kristof A marketing image from the microfinace organization Kiva, featuring Truphena Anyango, 29, in her pharmacy, Mikindani, Kenya, 2009 (kiva.org) Sue Halpern and Nicholas Kristof have been engaged in an exchange about microfinance, following her recent NYR review. of his new book (co-authored with...
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| Review: Stephen King's dome yarn is among his best (AP)
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
AP - "Under the Dome" (Scribner, 1088 pages, $35), by Stephen King: By now with Stephen King, it's easy to think this is all kind of ridiculous. An invisible dome descending upon a small town in Maine? People trapped inside, trying to figure out what on Earth is going on and &mdash.; as always in a Stephen King story...
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| The Micro Miracle?
Wed, 11 Nov 2009
Sue Halpern and Nicholas Kristof A group of women who have received microfinance loans, showing their loan cards, Kolkata, India, 2006 (Shamik Banerjee/The India Today Group/Getty Images) In the November 19 issue of The New York Review , Sue Halpern wrote about Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn.’s new book, Half the Sky...
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| The Fourth Part of the World by Toby Lester: review
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
The Fourth Part of the World is the enthralling story of a legendary map and it lays out more than just the geographical landscape finds Noel Malcolm
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| Cookery book reviews
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
The latest cookery books from Hugh FearnleyWhittingstall Rick Stein and Nigel Slater offer elegant writing and a glimpse of a glamorous lifestyle
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| The English Marriage by Maureen Waller: review
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Love happiness hatred fear. Maureen Waller's The English Marriage shows that the staples of marriage are unchanging says Suzannah Lipscomb
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| Nine Lives: In Search of the Sacred in Modern India by William Dalrymple: review
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Jason Webster is intrigued by the mix of India's spiritual and materialist sides examined by William Dalrymple in Nine Lives
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| Papa Spy by Jimmy Burns: review
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Nigel Jones enjoys the glimpse of the murky world of espionage in wartime Spain offered in Jimmy Burns's Papa Spy
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| General |
Israel & Palestine: Can They Start Over?
Thu, 03 Dec 2009
By Robert Malley The idea of Israeli-Palestinian partition, of a two-state solution, has a singular pedigree. It has been proposed for at least eight decades. Jews first accepted it as Palestinians recoiled; by the time Palestinians warmed to the notion in the late 1980s, Israelis had turned their. backs. Still, its proponents manage to...
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| A Great Jump to Disaster?
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Tim Flannery The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock James Lovelock: In Search of Gaia by John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin The Medea Hypothesis: Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive? by Peter Ward The idea that Earth is a living thing goes back at least as. far as Plato, who according to Francis...
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| Can Our Shameful Prisons Be Reformed?
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By David Cole Race, Incarceration, and American Values by Glenn C. Loury, with Pamela S. Karlan, Tommie Shelby, and Loïc Wacquant Let's Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice by Paul Butler Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics by Anthony C. Thompson With. approximately 2.3 million people in...
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| In Cold Blood, half a century on
Mon, 16 Nov 2009
Fifty years ago, Holcomb, Kansas was devastated by the slaughter of a local family. And then Truman Capote arrived in town . . . River Valley farm stands at the end of an earth road leading out of Holcomb, a small town on the western edge of Kansas. You can see its pretty white gabled roof floating. above a sea of corn stubble. The house...
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| With Berlusconi in the Soup
Thu, 03 Dec 2009
By Ingrid D. Rowland It is a measure of the ineptitude--or is it a death wish?--of Italy's major opposition party, the Partito Democratico (Democratic Party), that it has spent the entire season of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's discontent wrangling over the election of its own party secretary.--only to be caught, on the eve of the...
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| Napoleon's Eye
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Peter Brooks Dominique-Vivant Denon: L'oeil de Napoléon an exhibition at the Louvre, Paris, October 20, 1999–January 17, 2000 Inventing the Louvre: Art, Politics, and the Origins of the Modern Museum in Eighteenth-Century Paris by Andrew McClellan No Tomorrow by Vivant Denon, translated. from the French by Lydia Davis...
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| Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Sue Halpern Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism by Muhammad Yunus, with Karl Weber This past July, a little over a year after the United. Nations Security Council finally...
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| Secret Love in the Lost City
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Pico Iyer The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely Istanbul, with its many signs of the time when it was the center of the world, becomes something of a museum in the work of Orhan Pamuk, a writer clearly in love with memory itself, and his hometown., and everything that's been lost...
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| Velvet Revolution: The Prospects
Thu, 03 Dec 2009
By Timothy Garton Ash In the autumn of 1989, the term 'velvet revolution' was coined to describe a peaceful, theatrical, negotiated regime change in a small Central European state that no longer exists. So far as I have been able to establish, the phrase was first used by Western journalists and subsequently. taken up by Václav...
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| My media: Sir Christopher Meyer
Mon, 16 Nov 2009
The former PCC chair Sir Christopher Meyer shares his media choices Online After the morning papers, I use the BBC website to access the rest of the papers online. I get the Financial Times and the New York Times by email. The FT is obviously good on business, and I like its comment page. because. It often has a different take on...
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| Dreams of Better Schools
Thu, 19 Nov 2009
By Andrew Delbanco The Making of Americans: Democracy and Our Schools by E.D. Hirsch Jr. Why School? Reclaiming Education for All of Us by Mike Rose When Mike Rose, who teaches in the Graduate School of Education at UCLA, made some positive remarks about public schools on a call-in radio show. a few years ago, one listener...
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| Belle de Jour blogger unmasks herself as 'big mouth ex-boyfriend' looms
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Research scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti announces she is author of mysterious call girl blog and says she has no regrets about working as prostitute One of the best kept literary secrets of the decade was revealed last night when a 34-year-old research scientist, Dr Brooke Magnanti, announced she was. the writer better known as call girl...
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| The problem of Laura
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
Vladimir Nabokov's unfinished novella, The Original of Laura, is being published despite the author's instructions that it be destroyed after his death. Martin Amis confronts the tortuous questions posed by a genius in decline Language leads a double life – and so does the novelist. You chat. with family and friends, you attend to...
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| Ulysses S. Grant book seeks to restore his legacy
Sun, 15 Nov 2009
Author tries to separate facts from falsehoods in studying life, times of once-revered president When it was finally over, when the vote totals had made it official, he strolled home from a friend's house through the streets of the little Illinois town. His first words to his wife weren't "Woo-hoo.!" or the 19th century equivalent, but...
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| Getting Our Way by Christopher Meyer
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
Oliver Miles enjoys a former diplomat's lively history of the profession This is an entertaining book and also a valuable one. It consists of nine accounts of high and low points in British diplomacy, ranging from an English mission to hostile Scotland in the 16th century, via the Congress of Vienna., Macmillan and Kennedy at Nassau, and...
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| Why Health Care Reform is Going to the Dogs
Thu, 12 Nov 2009
Michael Tomasky Canine checkup ( independent.com ) So what did the House Blue Dogs do on the health care vote last Saturday? They were more supportive than one might think: Of the fifty-two-member coalition, twenty-eight voted yea and twenty-four nay. Jim Cooper of Tennessee, the Blue Dog whom. I identified in my piece in The New...
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| Book on Lincoln election seeks out Obama analogies (AP)
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
AP - "Lincoln for President: An Unlikely Candidate, An Audacious Strategy, and The Victory No One Saw Coming" (Sourcebooks Inc., 416 pages, $24.99), by Bruce Chadwick: It's inevitable that a new book about the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 would seek out analogies between that. remarkable event and the election of...
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| Free Amazon App Lets PC Users Read Kindle Books (NewsFactor)
Tue, 10 Nov 2009
NewsFactor - On Tuesday, Amazon.com rolled out Kindle for PC, a free application that lets consumers read digital books on personal computers. The application allows consumers who don't own a Kindle e-reader access to the Kindle Store's more than 360,000 books. Amazon's digital book inventory. includes new releases, along with...
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| The Tender Art of David Park
Fri, 13 Nov 2009
Sanford Schwartz David Park: Boston Street Scene , 1954; paintings from Helen Park Bigelow’s David Park, Painter: Nothing Held Back , just published by Hudson Hills Press David Park (1911–1960) is one of those artists who isn’t widely known but whose work inspires a special loyalty and. warmth of feeling among his admirers...
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| A life in writing: Wu Ming
Sat, 14 Nov 2009
'People think each author has his or her own voice, one voice. We think that each author has many voices' 'L'onda non si arresta" ("The wave doesn't stop", or hasn't broken), it says in spraypaint on Via Stalingrado, and again on one of the pillars lining Via dell'Indipendenza, when I visit the Wu Ming. collective in Bologna. The slogan...
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