On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review  By ELEANOR HENDERSON
Reviewed by STACEY D'ERASMO Eleanor Henderson's fierce, elegiac novel follows a group of friends, lovers, parents and children through the straight-edge music scene and the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Also in the Book Review  By DAVID MAMET
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS David Mamet comes out swinging against liberalism, offering his views on religion and American culture.  By ANN PATCHETT
Reviewed by FERNANDA EBERSTADT Ann Patchett's heroine, on the trail of a reclusive scientist in the Amazon, faces demons real and imagined.  By MANNING MARABLE
Reviewed by TOURE Manning Marable's biography of Malcolm X draws upon letters, diaries, F.B.I. reports and interviews with contemporaries to trace his career and illuminates his intellectual and spiritual development.  By EVELYN JUERS
Reviewed by JOHN SIMON The cultural diaspora of the Nazi years, through the eyes of Thomas Mann's brother and unlikely sister-in-law.  By ROBERT JAY LIFTON
Reviewed by MAURICE ISSERMAN A memoir by Robert Jay Lifton, a leading "psychohistorian" who studied how individuals have coped with extreme circumstances: war, torture, genocide.  By RON HANSEN
Reviewed by STEVEN HEIGHTON A sensational Jazz Age crime that also inspired James M. Cain and William Styron is the basis for Ron Hansen's propulsive novel.  By ASTI HUSTVEDT
Reviewed by KATHRYN HARRISON Asti Hustvedt examines the dubious research of a 19th-century French doctor who used hypnosis to induce hysteria in female subjects.  By DAVID KAISER
Reviewed by GEORGE JOHNSON In the 1970s, eccentric young scientists challenged convention and re-energized modern physics.  By MARY BETH NORTON
Reviewed by JOYCE E. CHAPLIN Between 1640 and 1760, Mary Beth Norton contends, men were increasingly viewed as public beings and women as private ones.  By HALEY TANNER
Reviewed by LUCY FERRISS A first novel about young love in a Russian émigré community.  By ANDREW ROBERTS
Reviewed by TIMOTHY SNYDER In a clear, accessible account of World War II in all its theaters, a historian asks how the Wehrmacht, the best fighting force, wound up losing.  By SARAH BURNS
Reviewed by MAGGIE NELSON This is the first sustained treatment of the Central Park jogger case since the defendants' convictions were vacated. Children's Books  By DAVID LUCAS and CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Reviewed by MARJORIE INGALL "The Lying Carpet" and "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making" celebrate paradox and the transformative power of storytelling. By KEVIN HENKES
Reviewed by ANN M. MARTIN A blossoming 10-year-old seeks a rare seashell in this middle grade novel.  Reviewed by LEONARD S. MARCUS "Leap Back Home to Me" and "999 Tadpoles" involve little frogs and the security that family brings.  By PAMELA PAUL More picture books reviewed.  By JOHN BERENDT and LISA CAMPBELL ERNST
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL "My Baby Blue Jays" chronicles a family of birds living on the author's balcony; and "How Things Work in the Ward" explains the everyday mysteries of acorns, dandelions, rocks and dirt. | Back Page  Essay By PAUL BLOOM Worried about whether you're evil? Two new books, complete with diagnostic checklists, can help you decide.  Crime By MARILYN STASIO Mystery novels by Peter Lovesey, Marcus Sakey, Elizabeth Brundage and Duane Swierczynski.  Featuring Eleanor Henderson on her novel, "Ten Thousand Saints"; and Asti Hustvedt, the author of "Medical Muses: Hysteria in Nineteenth Century Paris." Books News & Features  By PATRICIA COHEN The archive of the drug guru Timothy Leary includes accounts of Allen Ginsburg's and Jack Kerouac's experiments with psilocybin.  By PATRICIA COHEN Rationality evolved to win arguments, some scholars suggest, and flawed reasoning is itself an adaptation. 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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