Book Review
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| A Not So Common Reader This old-fashioned primer on literature from the esteemed critic James Wood concentrates on the art of the novel. |
| Entering the Scrum How Nelson Mandela used rugby to set South Africa on the path to reconciliation. |
| What’s the Matter With Washington? Republicans weren’t just greedy -- they were out to destroy the government, Thomas Frank argues. |
| Girls of Summer Linn Ullmann’s novel concerns the mingled fates of a powerful father and his three daughters. |
| Judgment Call The sociologist Charles Tilly examines how we assign responsibility. |
| From Spider-Man to Ayn Rand A scholar recounts the artist Steve Ditko’s pioneering and eccentric career in comics. |
| We’ll Always Have Berlin Anna Winger’s American heroine falls in love with Berlin and one of its inhabitants. |
| Playing Hurt Along with the increased opportunity for girls in sports, Michael Sokolove sees an alarming trend in injuries. |
| Beauty and the Beast The hero, horribly burned in a car crash, is nursed back to health by a woman who claims they were lovers in another life. |
| Home Movies In Bret Lott’s novel, a man’s Hollywood dreams affect three generations. |
| Chick-Lit Pioneer The genesis of a classic and the early struggles of its author, Lucy Maud Montgomery. |
| Cold-Blooded The market for rare and exotic animals attracts some slippery characters. |
| Follow the Poison The mysterious case of the Russian, the conspiracy and the polonium in the tea. |
| Children's Books: Mao’s Little Helper Small tragedies are the prelude to great ones in this haunting memoir of the Cultural Revolution. |
| Children's Books: A Reed Grows in Beijing The flutist and composer Guo Yue’s first book for children is about a musical child in Mao’s China. |
| Children's Books: How to Be Bad E. Lockhart’s latest novel has all the ingredients of a typical boarding school tale — but it’s also an homage to girl-power. |
| Children’s Books: Bookshelf More children’s books reviewed. |
| Essay: He Blurbed, She Blurbed Book blurbs are a tangled mass of friendships, rivalries, favors traded and debts repaid, not always in good faith. |
| Archive: Book Review Podcast This week: Bill Keller, The Times’s executive editor, on Nelson Mandela, race and rugby in South Africa; Stacey D’Erasmo on Linn Ullmann; Rachel Donadio with notes from the field; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. |
| Up Front Stacey D’Erasmo’s first two novels explored the tensions and mysteries in the relationships of two sets of unconventional parents and children. |
| TBR: Inside the List The first anti-Obama book to make real noise has arrived: Jerome R. Corsi’s “Obama Nation” goes straight to No. 1 on the nonfiction list. |
| Browsing Books: Editors’ Choice Recently reviewed books of particular interest. |
| Browsing Books: Paperback Row Paperback books of particular interest. |
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