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September 10th, 2010
Books of The Times: Sean Wilentz’s History ‘Bob Dylan in America’
Sean Wilentz’s “Bob Dylan in America” touchingly conveys its author’s nearly lifelong reverence for his subject.

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September 9th, 2010
A Writer’s Long Journey to Trace the Great Migration
“The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson’s book about the Great Migration of blacks in America, took 15 years and much hands-on research to finish.

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September 10th, 2010
Thomas Guinzburg, Paris Review Co-Founder, Dies at 84
Mr. Guinzburg was an editor and publisher who helped create The Paris Review and who later led Viking Press.

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September 9th, 2010
Books of The Times: At This School, Misfits Make Up the Student Body
“Skippy Dies” by Paul Murray has a lot on its mind: M-theory, lost youth, Irish history and parallel dimensions, not to mention sex, drugs and schoolboy humor.

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September 9th, 2010
Currents | Q&A: The Father of Modern Architectural Minimalism
Questions for the British architect John Pawson, who has a new monograph out next month.

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September 10th, 2010
Elizabeth Jenkins, Woman of Letters, Dies at 104
In novels and biographies, Ms. Jenkins looked at lives with a psychological dimension.

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September 8th, 2010
Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God
Stephen Hawking’s pop-science book about the origins of our universe got attention for a passage about God.

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September 7th, 2010
Books of The Times: How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite
In “Vida,” Patricia Engel’s world is caught between Colombia and the United States, and truly at home in neither.

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September 6th, 2010
Beach Reads Finished, It’s Time for the Big Books
Publishing’s fall schedule includes books by Bob Woodward, Keith Richards, George W. Bush and Jon Stewart.

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September 6th, 2010
Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach
The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s.

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September 5th, 2010
Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man’s Bucolic Idyll
Existential concepts like authenticity and selfhood, and people’s ability or inability to apprehend reality, lie at the heart of Tom McCarthy’s disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel.

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September 2nd, 2010
Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget
A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.

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September 7th, 2010
Book Sets Off Immigration Debate in Germany
Thilo Sarrazin, a former official who has been criticized as espousing racist views, has set off a discussion about Germany’s immigration policy.

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September 2nd, 2010
Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery
Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” sheds little light on his political vision or on why he took Britain to war against Iraq.

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August 31st, 2010
Books of The Times: Young Man Seeks Poetry in World War II’s Ruins
A British author links his grandfather’s World War II bombing missions to the war poetry of the time.

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September 3rd, 2010
Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook
After losing his lower jaw to cancer, the film critic, who can’t eat, has written a cookbook that is an ode to the rice cooker.

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August 31st, 2010
Books of The Times: Preppily Perplexed? A New Guidebook
“True Prep,” Lisa Birnbach’s successor to “The Official Preppy Handbook,” addresses the adult world of funerals and second marriages and the post-1980 world of cellphones, the Internet and synthetic fleece.

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September 7th, 2010
Freedom Trains
Isabel Wilkerson’s masterly account of the Great Migration tells the story of the six million African-Americans who moved away from the South between 1915 and 1970.

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September 3rd, 2010
Simian Says
Sara Gruen’s busy novel, which concerns six bonobos and the people who conduct language studies with them, addresses a vast sweep of animal-human issues.

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September 4th, 2010
Bringing It All Back Home
The historian Sean Wilentz situates Bob Dylan in a long continuum of American music, literature, religion and politics.

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September 4th, 2010
Stormy Weather
This novel’s protagonist is a World War II meteorologist.

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September 4th, 2010
Worlds in Collision
A Brahmin astrophysicist and his Dalit assistant are the interdependent poles of Manu Joseph’s novel.

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September 4th, 2010
No. 1 Sleuth
A history of the beloved matinee detective Charlie Chan.

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September 7th, 2010
Hannibal Rising
A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.

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September 4th, 2010
Lost Tribe
A New Yorker travels to Israel to make amends with her settler sister in this novel about American Jews in the Holy Land.

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September 4th, 2010
Living in Your Head
Charles Yu wraps his lonely story of a time machine repairman in glittering layers of gorgeous meta-science-fiction.

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September 4th, 2010
Science Fiction Chronicle
Science fiction by Karen Lord, Ian McDonald, Karin Lowachee and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud.

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September 4th, 2010
Words Cannot Express
Guy Deutscher’s argument about the basis of language is informed by the way we perceive and name colors.

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September 4th, 2010
Ghost, Come Back Again
Paul Murray’s smart comic novel, set in a Dublin boys’ school, is an elegy to lost youth.

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September 3rd, 2010
Endless War
Andrew J. Bacevich forcefully denounces 60 years of American militarism in this bracing and intelligent polemic.

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September 4th, 2010
Unhappy Days
The historian Laura Kalman looks at the Ford and Carter years.

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September 4th, 2010
Immortal Beloved
A man loses his wife to death but finds her somewhere else in this debut novel.

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September 9th, 2010
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GIRL WHO KICKED THE HORNET’S NEST, by Stieg Larsson
2. THE POSTCARD KILLERS, by James Patterson and Liza Marklund
3. SPIDER BONES, by Kathy Reichs
4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett
5. BEARERS OF THE BLACK STAFF (LEGENDS OF SHANNARA), by Terry Brooks

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September 2nd, 2010
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. CRIMES AGAINST LIBERTY, by David Limbaugh
2. _____ MY DAD SAYS, by Justin Halpern
3. OUTLIERS, by Malcolm Gladwell
4. THE IMMORTAL LIFE OF HENRIETTA LACKS, by Rebecca Skloot
5. EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON, by S. C. Gwynne

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September 2nd, 2010
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
2. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson
3. LITTLE BEE, by Chris Cleave
4. CUTTING FOR STONE, by Abraham Verghese
5. FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham

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September 2nd, 2010
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
2. FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham
3. THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, by Stieg Larsson
4. TRUE BLUE, by David Baldacci
5. DEMON FROM THE DARK, by Kresley Cole

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September 2nd, 2010
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance
1. EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert
2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
3. WHERE MEN WIN GLORY, by Jon Krakauer
4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls
5. MY HORIZONTAL LIFE, by Chelsea Handler

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September 7th, 2010
Essay: The End of Tenure?
Two recent books resurrect the debate over universities and the supposedly pampered people who teach there.

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September 7th, 2010
Crime: My Flesh Is Your Canvas
Mystery novels by Sara Paretsky, Charles Todd, Jeff Lindsay and Susan Hill.

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September 4th, 2010
A Physician Examines His Novels
The literature of Hans Keilson, a doctor who escaped to the Netherlands from Nazi Germany, is getting new attention in America.

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September 3rd, 2010
Archive: Book Review Podcast
Featuring Isabel Wilkerson on her history of the Great Migration, “The Warmth of Other Suns”; and Sean Wilentz on his book “Bob Dylan in America.”

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September 3rd, 2010
Questions for Deepak Chopra: Imagining the Prophet
The spiritual guru talks about his new novel about Muhammad.

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September 6th, 2010
Cultural Studies: Are You Reading What He’s Reading?
Talk of an “Obama bump” for authors comes at a moment when the flavor of public conversation around books has gone from genteel Earl Grey to Tea Party red.

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September 8th, 2010
Living With Music: A Playlist by Rob Sheffield
Sheffield's most recent memoir is "Talking to Girls About Duran Duran: One Young Man's Quest for True Love and a Cooler Haircut."

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September 7th, 2010
Author Spotlight | Charles Yu
Yu, the author of the novel "How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe," is also a full-time lawyer. We asked, If writing became lucrative enough, would he ever quit the day job?

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September 3rd, 2010
Book Review Podcast: Isabel Wilkerson
Featuring Isabel Wilkerson on her history of the Great Migration, "The Warmth of Other Suns"; and Sean Wilentz on his book "Bob Dylan in America."

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September 9th, 2010
Citation Needed: Houellebecq Responds to Charge of Plagiarizing Wikipedia
Mr. Houellebecq said his approach to literature, "muddling real documents and fiction, has been used by many authors," and that to describe such an act as plagiarism was "a skilled insult" and "ridiculous."

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September 8th, 2010
Deepak Chopra's 'Muhammad' to Be Released Early as E-Book
Dr. Chopra's fictionalized biography about the life of the Prophet Muhammad, will go on sale early in e-book form, weeks ahead of the print book's publication date of Sept. 21.

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September 4th, 2010
Up Front: Ander Monson
No one medium can contain Ander Monson. Luckily, we live in an age when no one medium needs to.

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September 3rd, 2010
TBR: Inside the List
This week’s hardcover fiction list offers plenty of armchair travel to exotic locales, including Eliza Griswold’s “Tenth Parallel.”

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September 4th, 2010
Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.

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September 4th, 2010
Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest.

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September 7th, 2010
The New York Times Book Review: Back Issues
Complete contents of the Book Review since 1997.

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