الجمعة، 12 أغسطس 2011

Books Update: 'House of Holes '

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On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'House of Holes '

By NICHOLSON BAKER
Reviewed by SAM LIPSYTE

Nicholson Baker's hilarious, extremely dirty novel is an episodic assortment of fantasies that celebrate desire, frailty and the comedy of life.

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Also in the Book Review

Binyavanga Wainaina

'One Day I Will Write About This Place'

By BINYAVANGA WAINAINA
Reviewed by ALEXANDRA FULLER

Finding refuge in fiction, Binyavanga Wainaina becomes a writer in this coming-of-age memoir.

Donald Ray Pollock

'The Devil All the Time'

By DONALD RAY POLLOCK
Reviewed by JOSH RITTER

The characters in Donald Ray Pollock's violence-soaked novel march in a parade of betrayals, sacrifices, suicides, rapes and executions.

'My Faraway One: Selected Letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz'

Edited by SARAH GREENOUGH
Reviewed by DEBORAH SOLOMON

An annotated selection of the voluminous correspondence between the painter and the photographer.

David Deutsch

'The Beginning of Infinity'

By DAVID DEUTSCH
Reviewed by DAVID ALBERT

The inexhaustibly curious physicist David Deutsch offers views on everything from subatomic particles to the shaping of the universe itself.

'The Echo Chamber'

By LUKE WILLIAMS
Reviewed by JAN STUART

In this novel, a shy writer with tinnitus embraces the quiet relief of storytelling.

Kevin Mitnick after his arrest in 1995.

'Ghost in the Wires'

By KEVIN MITNICK
Reviewed by J. D. BIERSDORFER

A pioneer of the corporate-computer break-in recounts the hacking exploits that led him on a nearly 20-year cat-and-mouse game with law enforcement.

'All About Love'

By LISA APPIGNANESI
Reviewed by JUDITH SHULEVITZ

Lisa Appignanesi examines the "unruly emotion" of love and its impact throughout the course of our lives.

'The Big Scrum'

By JOHN J. MILLER
Reviewed by JUDY BATTISTA

This history of football's early years examines how, over a century ago, the sport's opponents wanted it banned; then Theodore Roosevelt stepped into the huddle.

John Lydon at the Sex Pistols' final show, Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, 1978.

'Retromania'

By SIMON REYNOLDS
Reviewed by TOM PAYNE

Simon Reynolds laments how pop culture feeds on its own history, borrowing from a past that is ever more immediate.

'If Sons, Then Heirs'

By LORENE CARY
Reviewed by ROY HOFFMAN

Lorene Cary's latest novel explores a family's struggle involving race and inheritance in the South.

'Rules of Civility'

By AMOR TOWLES
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER

The characters in Amor Towles's first novel try to reinvent themselves in 1930s New York.

Nonfiction Chronicle

By TARA McKELVEY

Books about the Monty Python actor Michael Palin, sex abuse within the Mormon Church and murder and racial issues in 1960s New York; and a collection of essays by Edward Hoagland.

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Video: Babar at 80

Pamela Paul, the Book Review's children's books editor, sits down with Laurent de Brunhoff, who has kept his father's Babar character alive for 80 years.

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Peter Dinklage in the HBO series
Essay

Dragons Ascendant: George R. R. Martin and the Rise of Fantasy

By DAVID ORR

The titanic success of George R. R. Martin's gritty "Song of Ice and Fire" series has swept away the traditional, "aren't we a little old for this?" view of fantasy.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Sam Lipsyte on Nicholson Baker's "House of Holes"; and Deborah Soloman on the letters of Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz.

ArtsBeat

The 80th Anniversary of Babar

Sales Soar for Newly Minted Poet Laureate

A New York Poem by the New Poet Laureate

Editor's Note

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Web Producer
The New York Times on the Web

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