الجمعة، 18 مارس 2011

Books Update: 'The Information'

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On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'The Information'

James Gleick argues that information is more than just the contents of our libraries and Web servers: human consciousness, life on earth, the cosmos - it's bits all the way down.

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Also in the Book Review

The journalist Barney Darnton in February 1942, months before his death.

'Almost a Family: A Memoir'

A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist investigates the story of his own family and searches for the father he never knew.

'Modigliani: A Life'

Meryle Secrest reassesses the painter Modigliani's notoriously self-destructive life and his place in the modernist firmament.

Hadley and Ernest Hemingway in 1922.

'The Paris Wife'

Hemingway's first wife, Hadley Richardson, narrates this novel about their marriage.

'The Trinity Six'

Charles Cumming's thriller posits a sixth man among Britain's notorious Cambridge spies.

'Becoming George Sand'

A novel intertwines the narratives of a modern professor and the 19th-century French writer George Sand.

'Nocturne'

A physical and intellectual journey in search of undiluted moonlight.

Jerusalem

'Jerusalem, Jerusalem'

James Carroll covers a lot of territory in this messy book about just about everything, religion and violence in particular.

'Art and Madness'

The novelist Anne Roiphe examines her youthful compulsion to be a muse to "a man of great talent."

Sarita Mandanna

'Tiger Hills'

A first novel spanning much of the 20th century depicts a love triangle in the Coorg district of India.

'My Korean Deli'

How a Paris Review editor and his lawyer wife embraced a world of "lottery tickets, wine coolers and penny candy."

'The Most Human Human'

An account of a contest between artificial intelligence programs and people to see who sounds the most human.

'The Company We Keep'

A pair of C.I.A. operatives describe the dangers and deceptions of the career they abandoned, and how they came to marry.

Bo Bice, the runner-up in Season 4 of

'American Idol: The Untold Story'

How a lightly regarded British import called "Pop Idol" became America's most-watched television series.

Book Review Features

Essay

Why Last Chapters Disappoint

Books on social problems always seem to end with suggestions that are banal, utopian or beside the point.

Children's Books

'You're Finally Here!'

The impatient bunny rabbit in this picture book hates to wait.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring the journalist John Darton on his memoir, "Almost a Family"; and The Times's Holland Cotter on a new biography of Modigliani.

ArtsBeat

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
Books Producer
The New York Times on the Web

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