On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review  By JOSEPH LELYVELD
Reviewed by GEOFFREY C. WARD Joseph Lelyveld's vivid, nuanced and cleareyed study of Mahatma Gandhi focuses on his role as a social reformer, in both South Africa and in India. Also in the Book Review  By DAN GARDNER
Reviewed by KATHRYN SCHULZ We have a deep desire to know the future. But the journalist Dan Gardner argues that forecasts by experts are rarely more accurate than a guess.  Reviewed by DAVID OSHINSKY Jimmy Breslin on Branch Rickey, who laid the groundwork for integrating baseball. Neil Lanctot on Roy Campanella, who helped lead the way.  By WARD JUST
Reviewed by STEVEN HEIGHTON A novel of a Midwesterner's coming-of-age in a world of art and money.  By SHERI HOLMAN
Reviewed by JULIE MYERSON A legacy of mysticism and fear haunts three generations of in Sheri Holman's novel.  By PETER STAMM
Reviewed by SARAH FAY The Swiss writer Peter Stamm imagines a man caught between a charming, frigid wife and a plain but devoted mistress.  By DAVID GOLDFIELD
Reviewed by ANDREW DELBANCO A historian asks whether the country might have spared itself the carnage of the Civil War.  By ALAN HEATHCOCK
Reviewed by DONALD RAY POLLOCK These eight tales are linked by the suffering that abounds in a small, poverty-stricken town.  By CAROLYN BURKE
Reviewed by JAMES GAVIN Edith Piaf embraced life passionately, even at its cruelest; Carolyn Burke's biography surveys the mayhem with thoughtfulness and respect.  By RICHARD D. WHITE JR.
Reviewed by JOHN SCHWARTZ A biography of Will Rogers reminds us that the happy-go-lucky comedian was also a powerful political insider.  By ALEX von TUNZELMANN
Reviewed by TOM GJELTEN Alex von Tunzelmann reconstructs an era when Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic were cold war battlegrounds. By MARTIN DUBERMAN
Reviewed by J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN The intersecting lives of two gay Americans who were involved in issues like civil rights and the Vietnam War. By EDWARD DOLNICK
Reviewed by ANN FINKBEINER How the scientific attempt to describe the underlying order of the cosmos played out in the life of Isaac Newton.  By PETER GODWIN
Reviewed by JOSHUA HAMMER The journalist Peter Godwin's latest chronicle of the horrors of Zimbabwe under Mugabe.  By THOMAS PLETZINGER
Reviewed by LELAND de la DURANTAYE In this German novel, a children's book and the dog of the title reflect the tragic history of a menage-a-trois.  By RICHARD KLUGER
Reviewed by DAVID WALDSTREICHER How a struggle over land led to war between whites and Indians in Washington Territory in the mid-1800's. | Book Review Features  Essay By DAVID ORR Even when Oprah's magazine wraps it in fashion, poetry can't approach mass culture with any sense of swagger.  Crime By MARILYN STASIO Mystery novels by Henning Mankell, Maisie Dobbs, Michael Robertson and Louis Bayard.  Children's Books By MARION DANE BAUER
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL How to explain to a child the vexing, seemingly unending misery that is March? The picture book "In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb" turns a shopworn simile into a fresh, rousing story.  Featuring Joseph Lelyveld on Gandhi's years in South Africa; and John Schwartz on a new biography of Will Rogers. Reviews by The Times's Critics Editor's Note Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail. Feel free to send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my best to respond. Blake Wilson
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