Book Reviews
NYTimes Books
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 09:00:27 GMT
Sep 05, 2010 04:52PM
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
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
The historian Sean Wilentz situates Bob Dylan in a long continuum of American music, literature, religion and politics.
Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM
A Brahmin astrophysicist and his Dalit assistant are the interdependent poles of Manu Joseph?s novel.
Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM
A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.
Sep 03, 2010 10:01PM
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
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 by Karen Lord, Ian McDonald, Karin Lowachee and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud.
Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM
Guy Deutscher?s argument about the basis of language is informed by the way we perceive and name colors.
Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM
Paul Murray?s smart comic novel, set in a Dublin boys? school, is an elegy to lost youth.
Sep 03, 2010 09:00PM
Andrew J. Bacevich forcefully denounces 60 years of American militarism in this bracing and intelligent polemic.
Sep 03, 2010 10:00PM
A man loses his wife to death but finds her somewhere else in this debut novel.
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
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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