On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review By JAMES GLEICK Reviewed by GEOFFREY NUNBERG 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. Also in the Book Review By JOHN DARNTON Reviewed by SUSAN CHEEVER A Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist investigates the story of his own family and searches for the father he never knew. By MERYLE SECREST Reviewed by HOLLAND COTTER Meryle Secrest reassesses the painter Modigliani's notoriously self-destructive life and his place in the modernist firmament. By PAULA McLAIN Reviewed by BRENDA WINEAPPLE Hemingway's first wife, Hadley Richardson, narrates this novel about their marriage. By CHARLES CUMMING Reviewed by JACOB HEILBRUNN Charles Cumming's thriller posits a sixth man among Britain's notorious Cambridge spies. By ROSALIND BRACKENBURY Reviewed by NANCY KLINE A novel intertwines the narratives of a modern professor and the 19th-century French writer George Sand. By JAMES ATTLEE Reviewed by DOMINIQUE BROWNING A physical and intellectual journey in search of undiluted moonlight. By JAMES CARROLL Reviewed by DAMON LINKER James Carroll covers a lot of territory in this messy book about just about everything, religion and violence in particular. By ANNE ROIPHE Reviewed by JOYCE JOHNSON The novelist Anne Roiphe examines her youthful compulsion to be a muse to "a man of great talent." By SARITA MANDANNA Reviewed by TANIA JAMES A first novel spanning much of the 20th century depicts a love triangle in the Coorg district of India. By BEN RYDER HOWE Reviewed by CORBY KUMMER How a Paris Review editor and his lawyer wife embraced a world of "lottery tickets, wine coolers and penny candy." By BRIAN CHRISTIAN Reviewed by DAVID LEAVITT An account of a contest between artificial intelligence programs and people to see who sounds the most human. By ROBERT BAER and DAYNA BAER Reviewed by DAVID ROHDE A pair of C.I.A. operatives describe the dangers and deceptions of the career they abandoned, and how they came to marry. By RICHARD RUSHFIELD Reviewed by JON CARAMANICA How a lightly regarded British import called "Pop Idol" became America's most-watched television series. | Book Review Features Essay By DAVID GREENBERG Books on social problems always seem to end with suggestions that are banal, utopian or beside the point. Children's Books By MELANIE WATT Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL The impatient bunny rabbit in this picture book hates to wait. Featuring the journalist John Darton on his memoir, "Almost a Family"; and The Times's Holland Cotter on a new biography of Modigliani. 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 Books Producer The New York Times on the Web |
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