الجمعة، 6 مايو 2011

Books Update: 'The Boy in the Moon'

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On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'The Boy in the Moon'

In this memoir, the journalist Ian Brown tries to understand his profoundly disabled son.

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Also in the Book Review

'The Year We Left Home'

In this sympathetically witty novel, which spans 30 years, a Midwestern family struggles for economic and emotional stability.

Friedrich A. Hayek

'The Constitution of Liberty'

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.

'Netsuke'

As his wife chases after beauty, the narrator of this novel, an aging psychoanalyst, obsessively sleeps with his patients.

The Soviets distributed this picture of Shostakovich, said to be at work on his Seventh Symphony under siege in Leningrad in 1941.

'Music for Silenced Voices: Shostakovich and His Fifteen Quartets'

A critic speculates about what Shostakovich was really expressing in his string quartets.

'The Silent Land'

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.

George Washington directing field workers at Mount Vernon.

'Founding Gardeners'

A history of the founding father's passion for agriculture and botany, and how those pursuits reflected their political ideas.

Mohamed ElBaradei during the Tahrir square protests in January.

'The Age of Deception'

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.

'The Great Night'

Chris Adrian's novel is a loose retelling of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," set in contemporary San Francisco.

Spiritual guide: The Cambridge philosopher Henry Sidgwick, circa 1890.

'The Immortalization Commission'

John Gray, a philosopher, explores a century or so of investigations into immortality by mystically inclined intellectuals.

Paul Allen and his business partner in 1982.

'Idea Man'

The Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen charts his uneasy relationship with Bill Gates during the software giant's early years.

Danzy Senna

'You Are Free: Stories'

Race, class and gender affect the identity struggles of the nuanced characters in Danzy Senna's story collection.

'This Life Is in Your Hands'

A memoir of a family sundered by their return to the land in the 1960s.

Children's Books

'Hooray for Amanda and Her Alligator!'

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

Selling Books by Day, Writing Them by Night

Once a bookseller, always a bookseller, say some published authors who haven't quit their day jobs.

Crime

The Departed

Mystery novels by Thomas Perry, Belinda Bauer, Chris Knopf and the late Robert B. Parker.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Ian Brown on his memoir, "The Boy in the Moon"; and Leslie Gelb on Mohamed ElBaradei and nuclear disarmament.

ArtsBeat
Albert Brooks, the comedian and filmmaker - and now novelist - in Beverly Hills, Calif.

A Comedian Laughs All the Way to Dystopia

The comedian Albert Brooks, who publishes his debut comic novel, "2030," next Tuesday, finds humor amid misery.

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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