On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review  By JONATHAN STEINBERG
Reviewed by HENRY A. KISSINGER This incisive biography takes a psychological approach to describing the highly complex man who unified Germany and dominated European diplomacy during the late 19th century. Also in the Book Review  By DAVID BEZMOZGIS
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER David Bezmozgis's first novel, set in Rome in 1978, follows three generations of Soviet Jews as they wait for visas to North America.  By JIM SHEPARD
Reviewed by THOMAS MALLON Jim Shepard's research helps bring catastrophic fiction to life, though the characters may not survive.  By LES MURRAY
Reviewed by MEGHAN O'ROURKE The Australian poet Les Murray offers a memoir of his depression, and a new book of verse.  By SARAH VOWELL
Reviewed by KAUI HART HEMMINGS Sarah Vowell explores Hawaii's strange, tumultuous history, livening it up with her satirical, smart-alecky voice.  By STEWART O'NAN
Reviewed by JOANNA SMITH RAKOFF A widow's quiet life is altered when she buys a car and finds herself open to the world anew. By JASON K. STEARNS
Reviewed by ADAM HOCHSCHILD A journalist explores why Congo has been left to its cycle of war and massacre.  By KYUNG-SOOK SHIN
Reviewed by MYTHILI G. RAO In Kyung-sook Shin's novel, family members suffer guilt and regret when their matriarch goes missing in a Seoul subway station.  Reviewed by GEORGE JOHNSON A new biography of the Nobel Prize winner Richard P. Feynman, by a fellow physicist, concentrates less on Feynman the odd character and more on the thinker.  By XINRAN
Reviewed by LESLEY DOWNER A shocking account of family-planning attitudes and practices in China. By BEN SHEPHARD
Reviewed by RICHARD TOYE A history of the logistical, political and moral challenges faced by post-World War II relief workers caring for "displaced persons."  By ROBERT LANE GREENE
Reviewed by GEOFFREY NUNBERG Robert Lane Greene surveys the ways received ideas about language can lead us astray. By JENNET CONANT
Reviewed by LOUISA THOMAS A group portrait of idealists, including Julia and Paul Child, who served in the O.S.S. during World War II.  By E. L. DOCTOROW
Reviewed by JESS ROW A collection of stories from E. L. Doctorow, whose fictionalizations of American history influenced a generation. By JAN STUART Novels by Bathsheba Monk, Meg Howrey, Camilla Gibb, Leila Aboulela and Maeve Binchy. | Book Review Features  Essay By BEN ZIMMER Can a new slang dictionary possibly hope to uncover any "lost words"? Are there any unmentionables left to mention?  Books of The Times By DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI David Foster Wallace's posthumous, unfinished novel, "The Pale King," was pieced together by his editor from pages and notes that the author left behind after he committed suicide in 2008.  Featuring a special conversation with Henry Kissinger on Otto von Bismarck; and the linguist Ben Zimmer on a new dictionary of slang.  Children's Books By THOMAS F. YEZERSKI
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL This picture book traces the history of New Jersey's beleaguered Meadowlands ecosystem through its industrial nadir to the stubborn re-emergence of its indigenous wildlife. More 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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