On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review  By ERROL MORRIS
Reviewed by KATHRYN SCHULZ The filmmaker Errol Morris's book is about the limitations of vision, and the inevitable distortions involved in the act of looking at photographs. Also in the Book Review  By RANDALL KENNEDY
Reviewed by BRENT STAPLES Candidate Obama had to reassure voters of all colors, Randall Kennedy finds.  By STEVEN MILLHAUSER
Reviewed by JONATHAN LETHEM Written over the span of three decades, Steven Millhauser's stories find the weird in the prosaic.  By MARY CLEARMAN BLEW
Reviewed by LOUISA THOMAS A writer and English professor grapples with her past in this memoir.  By MARLENE ZUK
Reviewed by ELIZABETH ROYTE Marlene Zuk shows how the insect world, like ours, can be stunningly complex.  By JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND
Reviewed by BENOIT DENIZET-LEWIS Justin Vivian Bond recalls the ups and downs of being a "trans child."  By ARTHUR KRYSTAL
Reviewed by MARY JO MURPHY Arthur Krystal's essays issue from "reading, study, silence, thought."  By ELISSA SCHAPPELL
Reviewed by JENNIFER B. McDONALD The heroines of these linked stories tend to be volatile, aggrieved, distrustful and confused.  By ALEXANDRA FULLER
Reviewed by DOMINIQUE BROWNING Alexandra Fuller returns to the continent of her birth to write a sequel, or prequel, to "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight."  By ROY F. BAUMEISTER AND JOHN TIERNEY
Reviewed by STEVEN PINKER Roy F. Baumeister and John Tierney explore what we can do to increase self-control.  By ALEX SHAKAR
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA Alex Shakar's protagonist broods over his comatose brother and joins a neurological experiment that promises "spiritual awakening."  By STEVE SEM-SANDBERG
Reviewed by DAPHNE MERKIN In this novel about the Holocaust, the real-life Jewish leader Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski looms large.  By HAL VAUGHAN
Reviewed by JUDITH WARNER A biography contends that Coco Chanel was a Nazi agent.  Written and illustrated by ANDERS BREKHUS NILSEN
Reviewed by DOUGLAS WOLK Anders Brekhus Nilsen's unsettling comic vision embraces a flock of finches, the injustice of the food chain, and Plato's cave. | Back Page  Essay By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER An unusual artifact resurfaced at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin - a narrow pine door from a Greenwich Village bookstore, covered with some 242 signatures.  The Mechanic Muse By LEV GROSSMAN Centuries before e-books changed the way people read, the codex replaced the scroll.  Crime By MARILYN STASIO Mystery novels by George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, Martin Walker and Sebastian Rotella.  Featuring Harvard scholar Randall Kennedy on racial politics in America in his new book, "The Persistence of the Color Line"; columnist Ginia Bellafante talks about the new Big City Book Club. 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. Des Shoe
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