On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review By IAN BROWN Reviewed by ROGER ROSENBLATT In this memoir, the journalist Ian Brown tries to understand his profoundly disabled son. Also in the Book Review By JEAN THOMPSON Reviewed by JONATHAN DEE In this sympathetically witty novel, which spans 30 years, a Midwestern family struggles for economic and emotional stability. By F. A. HAYEK Reviewed by FRANCIS FUKUYAMA The definitive edition of the economist Friedrich A. Hayek's monumental work, which argues that no central government can know enough to organize society as efficiently as the market. By RIKKI DUCORNET Reviewed by MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM As his wife chases after beauty, the narrator of this novel, an aging psychoanalyst, obsessively sleeps with his patients. By WENDY LESSER Reviewed by EDWARD ROTHSTEIN A critic speculates about what Shostakovich was really expressing in his string quartets. By GRAHAM JOYCE Reviewed by KEVIN BROCKMEIER After an avalanche, a couple on a skiing holiday notice changes to their existence, in this eerie fantasy of isolation, marital love and the afterworld. By ANDREA WULF Reviewed by PAULA DEITZ A history of the founding father's passion for agriculture and botany, and how those pursuits reflected their political ideas. By MOHAMED ELBARADEI Reviewed by LESLIE H. GELB Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel prize-winning former director of the International Atomic Energy Agency and a major player in the revolution in Egypt, describes his quest to stem the atomic tide. By CHRIS ADRIAN Reviewed by LAURA MILLER Chris Adrian's novel is a loose retelling of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," set in contemporary San Francisco. By JOHN GRAY Reviewed by CLANCY MARTIN John Gray, a philosopher, explores a century or so of investigations into immortality by mystically inclined intellectuals. By PAUL ALLEN Reviewed by GARY RIVLIN The Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen charts his uneasy relationship with Bill Gates during the software giant's early years. By DANZY SENNA Reviewed by POLLY ROSENWAIKE Race, class and gender affect the identity struggles of the nuanced characters in Danzy Senna's story collection. By MELISSA COLEMAN Reviewed by MEGAN MAYHEW BERGMAN A memoir of a family sundered by their return to the land in the 1960s. Children's Books By MO WILLEMS Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL Mo Willems's latest picture book features a little girl and her stuffed animal. But in contrast to his Knuffle Bunny series, this one is told from the toy's point of view. | Book Review Features Essay By J. COURTNEY SULLIVAN Once a bookseller, always a bookseller, say some published authors who haven't quit their day jobs. Crime By MARILYN STASIO Mystery novels by Thomas Perry, Belinda Bauer, Chris Knopf and the late Robert B. Parker. Featuring Ian Brown on his memoir, "The Boy in the Moon"; and Leslie Gelb on Mohamed ElBaradei and nuclear disarmament. By DAVE ITZKOFF The comedian Albert Brooks, who publishes his debut comic novel, "2030," next Tuesday, finds humor amid misery. 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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