piątek, wrzesień 10th, 2010
Sean Wilentz’s “Bob Dylan in America” touchingly conveys its author’s nearly lifelong reverence for his subject.
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Books of The Times: He Was So Much Older Then
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środa, wrzesień 8th, 2010
A new book of photographs, “Jimmy Page by Jimmy Page,” documents the career of Led Zeppelin’s guitarist. Ben Sisario talked to Mr. Page about the book and his career
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Few Words and a Whole Lotta Pictures
No Comments »środa, wrzesień 8th, 2010
Stephen Hawking’s pop-science book about the origins of our universe got attention for a passage about God.
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Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God
No Comments »wtorek, wrzesień 7th, 2010
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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Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach
No Comments »niedziela, wrzesień 5th, 2010
Such existential concepts as authenticity and selfhood, and man’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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Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man’s Bucolic Idyll
No Comments »sobota, wrzesień 4th, 2010
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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A Physician Examines His Novels
No Comments »czwartek, wrzesień 2nd, 2010
Harvey Pekar, the obsessive chronicler of everyday lives, was collaborating at the end of his life on a Web project whose fate in print remains uncertain.
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Arts & Leisure Preview: The Unfinished Tale of an Unlikely Hero
No Comments »piątek, sierpień 27th, 2010
In Kevin Guilfoile’s new thriller, a heroine must deal with a mysterious cult of murderous mathematicians.
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Books of The Times: Safety in Numbers? Not for This Heroine
No Comments »środa, sierpień 25th, 2010
Julian Cribb warns of worldwide famines in the near future, and offers sensible ways to help alleviate the “global feeding frenzy.”
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Books of The Times: Seeing a Time (Soon) When We’ll All Be Dieting
No Comments »środa, sierpień 25th, 2010
The 40th anniversary of James Dickey’s book about wilderness and survival shouldn’t slip by unnoticed.
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Books: ‘Deliverance’: A Dark Heart Still Beating
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