Coming in November 2007.(Current and upcoming books worthy of
your attention)(Brief article)
THE FALL OF TROY | PETER ACKROYD ... CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE |
MICHAEL DIRDA ...THE BALLAD OF ABU GHRAIB | PHILIP GOUREVITCH AND ERROL
MORRIS ... A FREE LIFE | HA JIN ... CAULDRON | JACK MCDEVITT ... . . .
Coming in October 2007.(Current and upcoming books worthy of your
attention)(Brief article)
THE JESUIT & THE SKULL Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the
Search for Peking Man | AMIR D. ACZEL ... THE AIR WE BREATHE | ANDREA
BARRETT ... GENTLEMEN OF THE ROAD | MICHAEL CHABON... CLAPTON . . .
Coming in September 2007.(Current and upcoming books worthy of
your attention)(Brief article)
THINGS I OVERHEARD WHILE TALKING TO MYSELF | ALAN ALDA ... A BAL, A
DOG, AND A MONKEY How the Space Race Began | MICHAELD'ANTONIO ...
BROTHER, I'M DYING | EDWIDGE DANTICAT ... THE BRIEF WONDROUS . . .
Where's the Verse?(Letter to the editor)
I have just finished your most recent issue, and am, again, glad I
discovered your publication with its debut issue many years ago.
I've been a subscriber ever since. But why no poetry? Even . . .
Someday, someway.(Letter to the editor)
Convinced I wasn't reading as much new stuff as I used to
because I was just out of touch, I subscribed to Bookmarks a few years
ago. I resolved to read at least three books from each issue . . .
Missing: It's a Crime!(Letter to the editor)
I was pleased to see Charlie Huston featured in your July/Aug 2007
article on crime and mystery books. I'm 63 and really enjoy his
Hank Thompson fast-paced thrillers--made even better by . . .
Letter from the editor.
LITTLE KINDNESSES MAKE MY DAY, and I had a chance to witness quite
a few of them this month. In our July/Aug 2007 issue, we published a
letter from Arlene Coleman, who was dismayed to have missed a . . .
Year in books 2002: A look back at books that captured our
attention.
THE AWARDS
National Book Award (NONFic)
Master of the Senate
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
By Robert A. Caro
Before he was elected vice president in 1960, Lyndon Johnson spent
a decade in . . .
The Rest Is Noise.
EXCELLENT
Hooked on classics.
Listening to the Twentieth Century
In this much-anticipated book, music critic Alex Ross provides a
cultural history of classical music in the 20th century, . . .
Time and Materials.
EXCELLENT
Poems 1997-2005
* National Book Award
In 44 poems ranging from a few lines to a few pages, Robert Hass
juxtaposes the beauty of the natural world with the complexities of . . .
The Stuff of Thought.
EXCELLENT
Language as a Window into Human Nature
Eat your words.
In The Stuff of Thought, Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker
continues the inquiries he posed about verbal communication in . . .
The Day of Battle.
EXCELLENT
The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944
The second book in the Liberation Trilogy
In the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn (EXCELLENT Mar/Apr
2003), Rick Atkinson examined the . . .
The Art of Political Murder.
EXCELLENT
Who Killed the Bishop?
The (almost) perfect murder.
On April 26, 1998, 75-year-old Catholic Bishop Juan Gerardi
Conedera was celebrating the publication of his massive, . . .
The Slave Ship.
CLASSIC
A Human History
Brutal history finds a worthy voice.
The Slave Ship "has been a painful book to write," Marcus
Rediker writes, "and if I have done any justice to the subject, it
will . . .
Arsenals of Folly.
EXCELLENT
The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
Our century's near miss.
In 1954, Winston Churchill warned that if the United States
continued the nuclear arms race, "all you are going to do is . . .
The Year of Living Biblically.
EXCELLENT
One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as
Possible
Thou shalt not, and not, and not ...
Starting with an account of the laws set out in the Bible--some 800
in . . .
Two Lives.
EXCELLENT
Gertrude and Alice By Janet Malcolm
In this dual biography, Janet Malcolm explores the 40 years
Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas spent together--from their meeting in
France in 1906 . . .
One Drop.
EXCELLENT
My Father's Hidden Life--A Story of Race and Family Secrets
When black is white.
Although a prominent public figure, with a reputation as an
insightful literary critic and editor . . .
Foreskin's Lament.
EXCELLENT
Fighting with God.
Shalom Auslander was raised in a strict Orthodox community in
Monsey, New York, by an abusive father and a bitter mother. As a child,
Auslander wrestled with the . . .
Journals.
1952-2000
By Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., edited by Andrew Schlesinger and
Stephen Schlesinger
EXCELLENT
Before the gossip blogs.
To say that Arthur Schlesinger was one of the 20th . . .
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