Jagdish Bhagwati.(what one book)
PROFESSOR, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
Jagdish Bhagwati is University Professor, Economics and Law, at
Columbia University and Senior Fellow in International Economics at the
Council on Foreign . . .
Paul Collier.(what one book)
PROFESSOR
Paul Collier is a professor at Oxford who has focused on the
poorest countries of the world, especially Africa. His new book, The
Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries Are Failing . . .
Bookmarks staffpicks.(what one book)
Today, for better or for worse, we live in an increasingly
interconnected world. Goods may be cheaper worldwide, but outsourcing
leaves some workers caught in the switches. What to make of the . . .
Five groups?!?(have you read?)
I substitute teach at elementary schools a couple of times each
week and volunteer for a number of literacy organizations. I also belong
to five book groups, so I know people think I'm a bit . . .
Let's read nonfiction.(have you read?)
An avid reader all my life, I attended a oneroom schoolhouse for
nine years and read all the books in its small library. As I grew older,
I started to collect books and have over 2,000 in my . . .
February 2008.(now in paperback)
NADA
By Carmen Laforet
CLASSIC SELECTION
LITERARY - A small-town girl comes of age during the Franco regime.
(May/June 2007)
IN THE COUNTRY OF MEN
By Hisham Matar
EXCELLENT SELECTION
. . .
January 2008.(now in paperback)
THE AENEID
By Virgil; translated by Robert Fagles
CLASSIC
LITERARY - A 2,000-year-old classic, newly translated. (Mar/Apr
2007)
AMERICAN YOUTH
By Phil LaMarche
CLASSIC SELECTION
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Escape book group.(book group)(Interview)
How did the group get started?
Daniela (Dani) Guse runs an English bookshop (www.escapebooks.de)
in Hanover, Germany, and has offered some English readings for adults.
When a few customers asked . . .
Winner.(2007 Giller Prize for fiction literary award)
LATE NIGHTS ON AIR | ELIZABETH HAY: In the mid-1970s, after
returning to a small radio station in Canada's Far North following
his failure in Toronto, Harry Boyd finds himself among an . . .
Young people's literature.(awards)
WINNER
THE ABSOLUTELY TRUE DIARY OF A PART-TIME INDIAN | SHERMAN ALEXIE:
In this semiautobiographical novel, 14-year-old Arnold Spirit leaves his
Spokane Indian reservation to attend a wealthy . . .
Poetry.(awards)
WINNER
TIME AND MATERIALS Poems, 1997-2005 | ROBERT HASS: Hass's
first collection in a decade explores art, memory, the beauty of the
natural world (from California to Berlin to Mexico), mass . . .
Nonfiction.(awards)
WINNER
LEGACY OF ASHES The History of the CIA | TIM WEINER: Starting with
its creation during the Truman administration and chronicling the
post-9/11 landscape, Weiner claims that the CIA has . . .
Fiction.(awards)
WINNER
TREE OF SMOKE | DENIS JOHNSON: In the early 1960s, naive CIA
recruit Skip Sands joins his uncle's unit in the Philippine jungle.
Others--including soldier brothers from Phoenix, two . . .
In memoriam Norman Mailer (1923-2007).
With the publication of The Naked and the Dead (1948), a
semiautobiographical novel about fighting the Japanese on a Pacific
island during World War II, Norman Mailer arrived on the literary . . .
Movies from books.(lit at large)(Brief article)
FEBRUARY 2008 - THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL Starring Natalie Portman,
Scarlett Johansson, and Eric Bana, and directed by Justin Chadwick.
Based on the novel by Philippa Gregory (2002).
FEBRUARY 2008 - . . .
Coming in April 2008.(lit at large)(Brief article)
UNACCUSTOMED EARTH | JHUMPA LAHIRI: Eight short stories from the
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Namesake.
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THE ART OF HAPPINESS IN A TROUBLED WORLD | THE DALAI LAMA . . .
Coming in March 2008.(lit at large)(Brief article)
ROLLING THUNDER | JOHN VARLEY: By the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning
author of Mammoth, the conclusion to the trilogy that includes Red
Lightning and Red Thunder. BRYSON'S DICTIONARY FOR WRITERS . . .
Coming in February 2008.(lit at large)(Brief article)
THE SOUL THIEF | CHARLES BAXTER ... HIS ILLEGAL SELF | PETER CAREY
... WALLACE STEGNER AND THE AMERICAN WEST | PHILIP L. FRADKIN ... DAKOTA
| MARTHA GRIMES ... SONG YET SUNG | JAMES MCBRIDE ... . . .
Coming in January 2008.(lit at large)(Brief article)
THE SENATOR'S WIFE | Sue Miller: By the author of Lost in the
Forest and The Good Mother.
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LIFE CLASS | Pat Barker: By the Booker Prize-winning author of
Ghost Road.
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From our online forums.
In our forum at www.bookmarksmagazine.com, a longtime reader,
Natalie, posted a query asking for fiction recommendations for each of
several countries she will soon visit. Several replies have . . .
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