Book Reviews

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Sep 05, 2010 04:52PM

Freedom Trains

Isabel Wilkerson?s masterly account of the Great Migration tells the story of the six million African-Americans who moved away from the South between 1915 and 1970.

Sep 03, 2010 09:45PM

Simian Says

Sara Gruen?s busy novel, which concerns six bonobos and the people who conduct language studies with them, addresses a vast sweep of animal-human issues.

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Bringing It All Back Home

The historian Sean Wilentz situates Bob Dylan in a long continuum of American music, literature, religion and politics.

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Stormy Weather

This novel?s protagonist is a World War II meteorologist.

Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM

Worlds in Collision

A Brahmin astrophysicist and his Dalit assistant are the interdependent poles of Manu Joseph?s novel.

Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM

No. 1 Sleuth

A history of the beloved matinee detective Charlie Chan.

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Hannibal Rising

A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Lost Tribe

A New Yorker travels to Israel to make amends with her settler sister in this novel about American Jews in the Holy Land.

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Living in Your Head

Charles Yu wraps his lonely story of a time machine repairman in glittering layers of gorgeous meta-science-fiction.

Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM

Science Fiction Chronicle

Science fiction by Karen Lord, Ian McDonald, Karin Lowachee and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud.

Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM

Words Cannot Express

Guy Deutscher?s argument about the basis of language is informed by the way we perceive and name colors.

Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM

Ghost, Come Back Again

Paul Murray?s smart comic novel, set in a Dublin boys? school, is an elegy to lost youth.

Sep 03, 2010 09:00PM

Endless War

Andrew J. Bacevich forcefully denounces 60 years of American militarism in this bracing and intelligent polemic.

Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM

Unhappy Days

The historian Laura Kalman looks at the Ford and Carter years.

Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM

Immortal Beloved

A man loses his wife to death but finds her somewhere else in this debut novel.

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Letters: Doomed to Fail

William Pfaff responds to the review of his book.

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Letters: Another Point of Interest

Letter in response to Joe Queenan?s essay ?Postcards From My Staycation.?

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Letters: Its Own Intrinsic Beauty

Letter in response to Steven Heller?s discussion in his Visuals column of ?The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid,? by Oliver Byrne.

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Letters: Gettysburg Grammar

Letter in response to Ammon Shea?s review of ?The Glamour of Grammar.?

Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM

Letters: Before the Glory Years

?I am 97 years old, and as I read the review of ?Morning Miracle? (Aug. 22), about the struggle to keep The Washington Post alive, I was reminded of the summer of l932.?

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