الجمعة، 16 سبتمبر 2011

Books Update: 'The Grief of Others'

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On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'The Grief of Others'

Leah Hager Cohen's fourth novel weaves a complex pattern of light and dark, happiness and grief, in a 21st-century version of the family chronicle.

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Also in the Book Review

'Driving Home'

Jonathan Raban's essays describe how he left England for a new life in Seattle.

H. G. Wells

'A Man of Parts'

David Lodge's novel is based on the life of H.G. Wells, writer, prophet, political thinker and lover.

Lily Tuck

'I Married You for Happiness'

Lily Tuck's novel traces the joys and the mysteries of a long marriage.

A refugee camp in Korem, Ethiopia, 1984.

'Three Famines: Starvation and Politics'

When it comes to famine, Thomas Keneally finds natural forces less culpable than social injustice.

'Is Marriage for White People?'

Why are black women much less likely to marry than white?

'There but for the'

Ali Smith's satire about a guest who refuses to leave is also a parable of contemporary life.

Surat, India, in 2005.

'The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India'

Siddhartha Deb looks at how individual Indians are dealing with the country's rapid change.

'What It Is Like to Go to War'

A Vietnam veteran offers a deeply personal look at the ordeal of combat.

Roya Hakakian

'Assassins of the Turquoise Palace'

The 1992 killings of four Iranian opposition leaders in Berlin implicated the highest levels of Iran's leadership.

'The Golden Empire'

Hugh Thomas continues his monumental account of the glory days of Spain.

Denis Johnson

'Train Dreams'

A powerful American story unfolds in 90 minutes in Denis Johnson's novella.

American Communists lining up for the May Day parade in Manhattan in 1935.

'American Dreamers'

Michael Kazin extols the influence of reformers, radicals and idealists in shaping America.

'Noon'

A young protagonist is caught between the worlds of India and Pakistan.

Children's Books

'Wonderstruck'

Brian Selznick's new book, which follows "The Invention of Hugo Cabret," expands on his method.

'Wildwood'

The Decemberists' singer and songwriter, Colin Meloy, imagines a world that is part Portland, part fantasy.

'The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman'

The hero of Meg Wolitzer's first young adult novel possesses a special power that gives him an unfair advantage in Scrabble.

'The Flint Heart'

Katherine and John Paterson bring back a century-old fantasy classic.

Bookshelf: Fairy and Folk Tales

Children's and young adult books about kings, orphans, dragons and mythological beasts.

Children's Books

Picture Books About Boys at Play

"Anton Can Do Magic," "My Rhinoceros" and "Where's My T-R-U-C-K?" are three new picture books that capture the singularity, stubbornness and sweetness in the ways young boys play.

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Back Page

Essay

The Children's Authors Who Broke the Rules

Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss challenged the conception of what a children's book should be - and children's literature, happily, has never been the same.

Slide Show: Children's Bookshelf: Fairy and Folk Tales

Pamela Paul reviews new children's books about fairy and folk tales.

Crime

Art, Poetry, Murder

Mystery novels by Louise Penny, Eoin Colfer, Charles Todd and Scott Phillips.

Book Review Podcast

Featuring Leah Cohen on her new novel, "The Grief of Others"; and Adam Gopnik and Pamela Paul on the art of children's books and the art of writing about them.

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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
Web Producer
The New York Times on the Web

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