On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By ELEANOR HENDERSON
Reviewed by STACEY D'ERASMO
Eleanor
Henderson's fierce, elegiac novel follows a group of friends, lovers,
parents and children through the straight-edge music scene and the early
days of the AIDS epidemic.
By DAVID MAMET
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
David Mamet comes out swinging against liberalism, offering his views on religion and American culture.
By ANN PATCHETT
Reviewed by FERNANDA EBERSTADT
Ann Patchett's heroine, on the trail of a reclusive scientist in the Amazon, faces demons real and imagined.
By MANNING MARABLE
Reviewed by TOURE
Manning
Marable's biography of Malcolm X draws upon letters, diaries, F.B.I.
reports and interviews with contemporaries to trace his career and
illuminates his intellectual and spiritual development.
By EVELYN JUERS
Reviewed by JOHN SIMON
The cultural diaspora of the Nazi years, through the eyes of Thomas Mann's brother and unlikely sister-in-law.
By ROBERT JAY LIFTON
Reviewed by MAURICE ISSERMAN
A
memoir by Robert Jay Lifton, a leading "psychohistorian" who studied
how individuals have coped with extreme circumstances: war, torture,
genocide.
By RON HANSEN
Reviewed by STEVEN HEIGHTON
A sensational Jazz Age crime that also inspired James M. Cain and William Styron is the basis for Ron Hansen's propulsive novel.
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By ASTI HUSTVEDT
Reviewed by KATHRYN HARRISON
Asti
Hustvedt examines the dubious research of a 19th-century French doctor
who used hypnosis to induce hysteria in female subjects.
By DAVID KAISER
Reviewed by GEORGE JOHNSON
In the 1970s, eccentric young scientists challenged convention and re-energized modern physics.
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By MARY BETH NORTON
Reviewed by JOYCE E. CHAPLIN
Between 1640 and 1760, Mary Beth Norton contends, men were increasingly viewed as public beings and women as private ones.
By HALEY TANNER
Reviewed by LUCY FERRISS
A first novel about young love in a Russian émigré community.
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Reviewed by TIMOTHY SNYDER
In
a clear, accessible account of World War II in all its theaters, a
historian asks how the Wehrmacht, the best fighting force, wound up
losing.
By SARAH BURNS
Reviewed by MAGGIE NELSON
This is the first sustained treatment of the Central Park jogger case since the defendants' convictions were vacated.
Children's Books
By DAVID LUCAS and CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Reviewed by MARJORIE INGALL
"The
Lying Carpet" and "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of
Her Own Making" celebrate paradox and the transformative power of
storytelling.
By KEVIN HENKES
Reviewed by ANN M. MARTIN
A blossoming 10-year-old seeks a rare seashell in this middle grade novel.
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Reviewed by LEONARD S. MARCUS
"Leap Back Home to Me" and "999 Tadpoles" involve little frogs and the security that family brings.
By PAMELA PAUL
More picture books reviewed.
By JOHN BERENDT and LISA CAMPBELL ERNST
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
"My
Baby Blue Jays" chronicles a family of birds living on the author's
balcony; and "How Things Work in the Ward" explains the everyday
mysteries of acorns, dandelions, rocks and dirt.
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Essay
By PAUL BLOOM
Worried about whether you're evil? Two new books, complete with diagnostic checklists, can help you decide.
Crime
By MARILYN STASIO
Mystery novels by Peter Lovesey, Marcus Sakey, Elizabeth Brundage and Duane Swierczynski.
Featuring
Eleanor Henderson on her novel, "Ten Thousand Saints"; and Asti
Hustvedt, the author of "Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century
Paris."
Books News & Features
By PATRICIA COHEN
The archive of the drug guru Timothy Leary includes accounts of Allen Ginsburg's and Jack Kerouac's experiments with psilocybin.
By PATRICIA COHEN
Rationality evolved to win arguments, some scholars suggest, and flawed reasoning is itself an adaptation.
Reviews by The Times's Critics
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