Thursday, March 11, 2010

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Books of The Times

'The Solitude of Prime Numbers'

The Italian writer Paolo Giordano has drawn a mesmerizing portrait of a young man and woman whose injured natures draw them together and inevitably pull them apart.

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'Next'

In James Hynes’s new novel, a middle-aged man on a one-day trip to Austin, Tex., for a job interview comes full to life at long last.

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'Still Life'

Melissa Milgrom’s oddball first book is a pinballing tour through the poorly understood world of taxidermy.

A New Anthology of Gastronomica Magazine

“The Gastronomica Reader” is an anthology of more than 40 essays from the thought-provoking food magazine.

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'The Surrendered'

With “The Surrendered,” Chang-rae Lee has written the most ambitious and compelling novel of his already impressive career.

Pondering Good Faith in Publishing

Digital media raises the question of what part the traditional book publisher will play in the future.

Letters Capture Grief for President Kennedy

A new book has collected some of the thousands of surviving letters to Jacqueline Kennedy after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Books of The Times

'Burning Bright'

The skill with which Ron Rash’s tales are constructed is apparent in this new book of stories.

Straightening the Record

The Society for American Baseball Research changed course and recognized Dorothy Jane Mills as a co-author with Dr. Harold Seymour of a trilogy of the game’s history.

Palestinian Sees Lesson Translating an Israeli’s Work

In memory of a son killed in a terrorist attack, a Palestinian lawyer paid for an Arabic translation of the autobiography of Israel’s most prominent author and dove, Amos Oz.

Books of The Times

'The Best of It'

A nearly career-spanning collection of compact and refined poetry by Kay Ryan, the poet laureate of the United States.

Book on Spitzer’s Downfall Sets Off Angry Replies

Eliot Spitzer called an account by his former senior adviser “self-serving and largely inaccurate.”

Ultimate Bush Insider Lifts Veil on Presidency

Karl Rove says in his new memoir that President George W. Bush probably would not have invaded Iraq had he known there were no unconventional weapons there.

Sunday Book Review

'Angelology'

In Danielle Trussoni’s rousing novel, a young nun is drawn into an ancient struggle against the Nephilim, hybrid offspring of humans and heavenly beings.

'Rebel Land'

Christopher de Bellaigue investigates the bewildering historical entanglements in which Turkey is ensnared.

'The Ask'

This darkly humorous satiric novel, a witty paean to white-collar loserdom, stars a deeply cynical academic fund-raiser fighting for his job.

'The Russian Dreambook of Color and Flight'

Gina Ochsner’s first novel links the grim anomie of post-Soviet Russia to the delirium of magic realism.

'This Book Is Overdue'

An exploration of the world of libraries and librarians, via a tour of eccentric characters and unlikely locations.

'The Infinities'

In John Banville’s novel, a crew of Greek deities attends a mathematician’s deathbed.

'The Untold War'

A philosopher and psychoanalyst documents the stories of veterans and brings a dual perspective to the experience of war.

'Tammy Wynette'

The life and hard times of the country singer Tammy Wynette.

'Chasing the White Dog'

Modern profiles and historical sketches animate a moonshine enthusiast’s study of homemade liquor.

'Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand'

Helen Simonson mischievously unleashes stock village-novel characters into a new England.

Essay

The Talk of the (Seedy Side of) Town

St. Clair McKelway helped solidify the classic New Yorker style but is nearly forgotten today.

Visuals
The World as Their Canvas

Visual books about maps, the design firm Unimark International and African and Central Asian “war rugs.”

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Danielle Trussoni on her novel, “Angelology”; and Joseph O’Neill on Turkey and its ethnic conflicts.

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Off the Shelf

The Corporate Side of Snooping

In a new book, Eamon Javers tries to get private-sector rent-a-spies to divulge their mysteries.

The Medium

Shelf Life

Libraries and book collecting in the age of electronic reproduction.

Sunday Routine | Rebecca Stead

Pen Down, Brain Off

Why the author of the prize-winning children’s book “When You Reach Me” sets aside Sunday as a time for not writing.

‘Mad as a Hatter’: The History of a Simile

Pity Lewis Carroll’s poor Hatter. Why not “mad as a shoemaker”?

Book Review Features

Inside the List

Robert B. Parker’s posthumous “Split Image,” new at No. 4, probably won’t be his last appearance on the list.

Editors’ Choice

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