Summer Reading Roundups  Reviewed by SAM SIFTON More than a dozen new cookbooks, full of fantasy, truth, good meals and bad.  Reviewed by DOMINIQUE BROWNING A bumper crop of new gardening books that make a good case for the simple joy of growing things.  Reviewed by JOSHUA HAMMER In this season's travel books, the most resonant journeys are recorded by writers who hit the road to escape failed relationships, broken marriages and dead-end careers. Summer Reading: Music  Reviewed by ALAN LIGHT The life and times of Metallica and Queen, two of the world's biggest, loudest and most emotionally complicated rock groups.  Reviewed by JIM WINDOLF New books by Greil Marcus, David Yaffe and Daniel Mark Epstein reaffirm Bob Dylan's enduring ability to captivate.  By ROB YOUNG
Reviewed by BILL WYMAN Rob Young traces the pastoral roots of Britain's folk music scene of the 1960s and '70s. Summer Reading: Hollywood  By MICHAEL FEENEY CALLAN
Reviewed by STEPHANIE ZACHAREK A meticulous, tiptoeingly respectful biography of Robert Redford: actor, director and environmental activist.  By DICK VAN DYKE and BARBARA EDEN
Reviewed by HOWARD HAMPTON Memoirs by Dick Van Dyke and Barbara Eden recall a pioneering era of television comedy.  By JENNIFER GRANT
Reviewed by ADA CALHOUN Cary Grant's daughter celebrates their relationship.  By PETER BART
Reviewed by CARYN JAMES Paramount Pictures as seen from on high when the American new wave came in. Summer Reading: Fiction  By ROSAMUND LUPTON
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER In this novel, a free-spirited sister's death - perhaps it was murder - forces a highly conventional woman to examine the truth of their relationship.  By CHINA MIEVILLE
Reviewed by CARLO ROTELLA On a distant planet, humans introduce the natives to a destructive habit - lying. By RICHARD NORTH PATTERSON
Reviewed by ISAAC CHOTINER In Richard North Patterson's new thriller, Al Qaeda plans to set off a nuclear bomb on Sept. 11, 2011.  By AMANDA HODGKINSON
Reviewed by SARAH TOWERS In this first novel, a couple shattered by World War II struggle to start anew.  By SARAH WINMAN
Reviewed by HENRY ALFORD This darkly comic novel's child heroine quotes Nietzsche at the dinner table and names her pet rabbit "God." By LYNNE TILLMAN
Reviewed by FORREST GANDER Lynne Tillman experiments with narrative form in these innovative stories.  By JEFF VANDERMEER Speculative fiction by Lauren Beukes, Genevieve Valentine, Peter S. Beagle and Jo Walton. Summer Reading: Travel & Adventure  By EDWARD J. LARSON
Reviewed by JENNIFER A. KINGSON In time for the 100th anniversary of the conquest of the South Pole, a history of Antarctic exploration through the lens of science.  By ELISABETH EAVES
Reviewed by ZOE SLUTZKY For this traveler, each new place is more mirage than reality.  By MITCHELL ZUCKOFF
Reviewed by MICHAEL WASHBURN How three World War II sightseers survived a crash in remote New Guinea.  By ANDREA di ROBILANT
Reviewed by SARA WHEELER Andrea di Robilant's discovery of an antique travel book sends him on a journey of his own.  By MICHAEL JACOBS
Reviewed by ALIDA BECKER A somewhat unlikely adventurer describes his trek down South America's great mountain range to its icy finish in Patagonia.  By PAUL THEROUX
Reviewed by HENRY SHUKMAN Paul Theroux's literary travel volume cites passages from his favorite authors. Summer Reading: Sport  Reviewed by GORDON MARINO Essays on boxing by A. J. Liebling, Richard Wright, Joyce Carol Oates, Gay Talese and others survey a world of extreme risk and unique nobility.  By ROBERT PENN
Reviewed by TOM VANDERBILT The cyclist Robert Penn sets out to assemble a "talismanic machine." Summer Reading: Baseball  By IAN O'CONNOR
Reviewed by RICHARD SANDOMIR This biography of the Yankees' shortstop has only good things to say about him.  Reviewed by BILL SCHEFT Short biographies of Joe DiMaggio and Hank Greenberg, two of the most feared hitters in baseball.  By GEORGE VECSEY
Reviewed by JONATHAN EIG A biography of Stan Musial, one of baseball's great hitters who nonetheless kept a low profile.  By MARC TRACY A grudge-bearing memoir by Bill White; accounts of Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hit streak and a 19th-century manager's back-to-back pennant wins; and a retired ballplayer's Zen-inspired meditation on the game. Summer Reading: Comics  By BRIAN WALKER
Reviewed by JEFF SHESOL An illustrated history of American newspaper comics, from the Yellow Kid to Dilbert. Summer Reading: Food By RICHARD J. KING and ELISABETH TOWNSEND
Reviewed by DAWN DRZAL Two short books on lobster, the food and the creature. | Back Page Sketchbook | Amy Goldwasser and Peter Arkle On a recent partly sunny Sunday afternoon on the Sheep Meadow in Central Park, we asked some outdoor readers to give their ground-level book reviews.  Featuring Sam Sifton on new cookbooks and Dominique Browning on new books about gardening. Children's Books  By JOHN ROCCO
Reviewed by RICK MOODY A Brooklyn family experiences a blackout in this picture book. By KATHRYN ERSKINE
Reviewed by GARY D. SCHMIDT In this middle grade novel, a boy becomes aware of his father's strengths, and his own, while spending the summer with relatives. By MOIRA YOUNG
Reviewed by JESSICA BRUDER In this debut young adult novel, a girl searches for her brother in a postapocalyptic world.  By PAMELA PAUL More picture books reviewed.  By SOPHIE WEBB
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL A field biologist and ornithologist's illustrated journal of a four-month scientific voyage on the Pacific Ocean. Summer Reading: Crime  By BILL JAMES
Reviewed by BRYAN BURROUGH A baseball statistician turns to his other passion: true crime cases, from Lizzie Borden to JonBenet Ramsey.  By SARAH MAZA
Reviewed by JUDITH WARNER A lurid murder case from the 1930s sheds light on a time of social change in France.  Crime By MARILYN STASIO Mystery novels by Michael Koryta, Justin Evans, Jason Starr and Sara Gran.  Books News & Features  By WILLIAM GRIMES Mr. Keilson, a German-born psychoanalyst, won literary fame at the end of his long life when his long-forgotten stories, set in Nazi-occupied Europe, were republished to great acclaim.  Noticed By JULIE BOSMAN There is an understanding among publishers, editors and agents that ghostwriters are behind many novels by celebrities.  By JULIE BOSMAN and MICHAEL BARBARO Georgina Bloomberg's new book, "The A Circuit," is about a family headed by a blunt-talking Wall Street billionaire who lives in a Manhattan town house and "owns half of New York." 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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