Science.(Book review)
NONFICTION
BOOKMARKS SELECTION
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Physics of the Impossible
A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields,
Teleportation, and Time Travel
By Michio Kaku
Mission . . .
History.(Book review)
NONFICTION
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Human Smoke
The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization
By Nicholson Baker
A pastiche for peace.
Not only do most Americans perceive World War II as . . .
Biography.(Book review)
NONFICTION
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Charlatan
America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him,
and the Age of Flimflam
By Pope Brock
The con man who got America's goat.
What do country music, . . .
General.(Book review)
NONFICTION
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Freedom for the Thought We Hate
A Biography of the First Amendment
By Anthony Lewis
Congress shall make no law ...
It would be hard to find a better writer to introduce . . .
Sf.(science fiction)(Book review)
FICTION
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Hunter's Run
By George R. R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, and Daniel Abraham
When the hunted becomes the hunter.
On a planet named for the Brazilian city Sao Paulo, a small . . .
Crime.(Book review)
FICTION
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L.A. Outlaws
By T. Jefferson Parker
The female Robin Hood.
Suzanne Jones, an eighth-grade teacher and mother of three,
transforms into Allison Murrieta at night. At dark, the . . .
Literary.(Book review)
FICTION
NEW BOOKS GUIDE
We read hundreds of book reviews each month to select the works to
include in each issue. We seek a balance among three categories:
highly-rated books that received many . . .
Millhauser on ...(Steven Millhauser)(Interview)
HIS CHILDHOOD FASCINATION FOR COMICS: "I read Walt Disney
comics side by side with children's classics. I was a great admirer
of Scrooge Mcduck, who went on wondrous adventures that took him . . .
Steven Millhauser: the writer's writer and author of Martin
Dressler and Edwin Mullhouse offers a new collection of short
storie
Despite a career spanning more than three decades and a handful of
prestigious awards, including a Pulitzer Prize for his 1996 novel Martin
Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer, Steven . . .
Peter Carey: the two-time Booker Prize-winning author tells the
story of a child of 60s radicals who have gone underground.
In Peter Carey's latest novel, His Illegal Self, a young boy
comes of age during the militant radical underground of the early 1970s.
Starting in Manhattan's Upper East Side, his journey ends in . . .
But wait, there's more ...(Brief article)
INTERNATIONAL COVERAGE
DATELINE SOWETO Travels with Black South African Reporters |
WILLIAM P. FINNEGAN (1988)
THE ATOMIC BAZAAR The Rise of the Nuclear Poor | WILLIAM
LANGEWIESCHE (2007) (**** . . .
Literary nonfiction.(Book review)
When Susan Orlean's editor at Esquire asked her to write a
profile of actor Macaulay Culkin and proposed a title, "The
American Man at Age Ten," the topic didn't inspire her, but
the title did. She . . .
Presidential biographies: you've lived through the ups and
the downs of more than a few presidential administrations, and
here's
Douglas L. Wilson
CODIRECTOR OF THE LINCOLN STUDIES CENTER, KNOX COLLEGE
Douglas L. Wilson is codirector of the Lincoln Studies Center at
Knox College. He has written extensively on Thomas . . .
Now in paperback: previously reviewed, available for less.(Book
review)
MAY 2008
The Septembers of Shiraz
By Dalia Sofer
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LITERARY - A Jewish man is arrested in Tehran in 1981, and his
family must learn to cope in a climate of fear and suspicion. . . .
Year in books: a look back at books that captured our
attention.(1955)(Book review)
THE AWARDS
Nobel Prize for Literature
Halldor Kiljan Laxness
(Iceland, 1902-1998)
Laxness was honored "for his vivid epic power which has
renewed the great narrative art of Iceland." He is . . .
Summer reading for older students.(younger readers)(Young adult
review)(Book review)
As a high school teacher in Frederick County, Maryland, I am often
asked by parents to recommend summer reading for older students. Instead
of a list of classics or the latest young adult novels, I . . .
The Eclectic Shade Tree.(book group)(Organization
overview)
LOCATION: ONLINE
How did your group form?
The Eclectic Shade Tree Book Group began in 2002, when Jason, its
facilitator, took his brother's advice and launched an online book
club in which they . . .
All this and poetry too.(Book review)
The Iliad of Homer
Translated by Richmond Lattimore
Robert Fagles's translations are often praised, but Lattimore
is the translator I read for the full, mythic grandeur of ancient Greek
myth. . . .
Two shelves of favorites.(Book review)
Two shelves hold my 32 favorite books. As hard as it was to choose
them, here are my ten favorites.
The Reckoning
By David Halberstam
In this nonfiction book, Halberstam traces the rise of . . .
Incoming nonfiction.(Bibliography)(Brief article)
Maps and Legends | MICHAEL CHABON: Chabon offers a collection of 16
essays on reading and writing. MAY
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Spiritual Evolution | GEORGE E. VAILLANT, MD: Author of Aging . . .
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