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Books of The Times: Anthony Doerr’s ‘Memory Wall,’ Fleeting Yesterdays

Thu, 07/29/2010 - 04:30
Anthony Doerr’s relentless fascination with memory — and with the ways memories fade or are destroyed — connects the six brooding stories in this collection.

Books of The Times: Jane Ziegelman’s ‘97 Orchard’ Is a Culinary History

Wed, 07/28/2010 - 04:28
The Old World meets the new on the plates of immigrants on the Lower East Side in Jane Ziegelman’s “97 Orchard.”

Books on Science: Let There Be Dimmers on Our Glowing Planet

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 18:00
Jane Brox’s narrative is in many ways a social history, told through man’s relationship to light.

Books: Drama! Intrigue! A Mystery? No, Malaria’s Story

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 17:46
In her new book, Sonia Shah has spun a disease yarn that’s not a yawn.

Fashion Diary: Studying the Preppy Look and its Reference Points

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 16:04
The preppy look has had numerous fashion “references” over the decades.

Alan Moore Celebrates a Real Person in ‘Unearthing’

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 09:52
The British comic-book writer Alan Moore pays tribute to a mentor in a new sound recording.

Books of The Times: Gary Shteyngart’s ‘Super Sad True Love Story’

Tue, 07/27/2010 - 04:30
Gary Shteyngart’s new novel is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting satirical romance set in the near future, as the United States crumbles.

Squid’s Meaty Role in China Miéville’s ‘Kraken’

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 20:48
The British science fiction writer China Miéville defies stereotypes. His latest novel, “Kraken,” involves a squid-worshiping cult and oppressed magical animals on picket lines.

Evanovich Takes Her Bounty to Random House

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 18:04
The blockbuster novelist Janet Evanovich has taken her scrappy bounty-hunter heroine Stephanie Plum to Random House, leaving her longtime publisher, St. Martin's Press, after more than two months of contract negotiations fell through.

Book Review - The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham - By Selina Hastings

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 17:37
Selina Hastings’s biography sees the origins of Somerset Maugham’s habit of cruelty in his cruel childhood.

Book Review - A Great Unrecorded History - A New Life of E. M. Forster - By Wendy Moffat

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 17:37
Wendy Moffat’s perceptive biography does not make E. M. Forster’s sexuality explain everything, though of course it explains a great deal.

Stan Lee Starts a Venture and a New Superhero Team

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 17:34
Stan Lee, who helped create countless Marvel Comics characters, has a new line of comic books, including one about Super Seven, a band of heroes.

Book Review - The Great Silence - By Juliet Nicolson

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 15:20
A history of the aftermath of World War I, when Britain strove to suppress its grief with willed gaiety.

Book Review - The Eitingons - By Mary-Kay Wilmers

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 15:06
This biography of an influential Russian clan encompasses the Soviet secret police and Sigmund Freud’s inner circle.

Posing as Fitness

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 15:03
Two books on how yoga was packaged and promoted in different ways in America, depending on the audience and the era.

Samuel Steward’s Life in ‘Secret Historian’

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 04:30
A new book about Samuel Steward, “Secret Historian” by Justin Spring, reveals a little-documented strand of gay life in the middle decades of the 20th century.

Books of The Times: Andrew Morton’s Biography of Angelina Jolie

Mon, 07/26/2010 - 04:00
Angelina Jolie is something of a mystery, but Andrew Morton has attempted a biography anyway.

Rock of Ages

Sun, 07/25/2010 - 04:00
Two redemption-rock chronicles, one earnest, one jocular.

Letter From India: Somerset Maugham’s Swami

Sun, 07/25/2010 - 01:31
Long before Elizabeth Gilbert, Somerset Maugham turned the ashram experience into a monster best seller, “The Razor’s Edge.”

The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues

Sat, 07/24/2010 - 21:22
Complete contents of the Book Review since 1997.