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Books of The Times: Power and Style, in the Ring and the World
Wil Haygood’s biography of Sugar Ray Robinson captures the great midcentury boxer’s grace and power as well as it’s been captured.
Books: They Died, and Lived to Tell All About It
A new book about the “gray zone” between life and death.
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Coma
Book Calls Jewish People an ‘Invention’
The book by Shlomo Sand, which mixes respected scholarship with dubious theories, spent months on the best-seller list in Israel and is now available in English.
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Arthur Koestler
Popular Author’s Audiobook Tries a New Format: Vinyl
David Sedaris’s publisher was drawn to the quirky idea of offering his “Live for Your Listening Pleasure” in a limited album format.
Books of The Times: The Voice That Helped Remake Culture
Terry Teachout’s eloquent and important new biography restores Louis Armstrong to his deserved place in the pantheon of American artists.
Son Objects to Moving Camus’s Remains
President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to transfer the remains of the writer Albert Camus to one of the most hallowed burial places in France, but the plan has run into opposition from the Nobel laureate’s son.
Arts, Briefly: Oxfam and Booksellers Agree to Plan
According to The Guardian, representatives from Oxfam, the Provincial Booksellers Fairs Association and the Antiquarian Booksellers Association met to create a plan to help redirect business back to local secondhand booksellers.
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Books of The Times: Vile Heroes and High-Seas Swagger
“Pirate Latitudes” has unremarkable ambitions, standard genre flourishes and the stiff, uncomfortable tone of early work.
Enthusiasm for Palin, and Echoes of 2008 Divide
On her book tour, Sarah Palin has skipped the big cities authors usually visit in favor of smaller places where she and Senator John McCain performed well in 2008.
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Politics
Plotting Thrillers in the Fog of China
So much of what is known of China’s beating Communist heart is guesswork. But not for the spy novelist.
Disturbing the Comfortable
Stories rooted in horror, fable and fairy tale, by the Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.
Double Agency
In this novel, British and American spies clash in the buildup to the Beijing Olympics.
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Return to Progress
Collected columns denouncing the Bush wars and tax cuts and recounting the fits of nerves that President Obama coolly overcomes.
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Election
Barack Obama
The Pain That Binds
In this novel, a girl’s disappearance sets off ripples of grief in a small South Dakota town.
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Andre Agassi’s Hate of the Game
Bracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Andre Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.
Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories
Carol Sklenicka’s biography and a long-overdue “Collected Stories” spotlight Carver’s growth as a writer and illuminate his poisonous relationship with the editor Gordon Lish.
Taking No Prisoners
A historical novel about the ferocious Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest and the slaves who followed him.
Into the West
A thorough, well-wrought political history of James K. Polk’s presidency and the triumph of Manifest Destiny.
Word Made Flesh
Questions for, quibbles with and tributes to the sometimes inscrutable protagonist of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.
TBR: Inside the List
I’m a sucker for tales of extreme weather, so my curiosity was piqued by Linda Howard’s “Ice,” new at No. 8 on the hardcover fiction list.
Crossroads: How Can We Help the World’s Poor?
Humanitarians are fiercely divided about what helps poor people. It’s clear that doing good is harder than it looks.
Fiction Chronicle
Books by Janet Skeslien Charles, Robert Hicks, Anita Diamant, N. M. Kelby and Rebecca Stott.
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Anita Diamant
Robert Jordan
Rebecca Wells
A Jaundiced View
The lives — as well as the livers — of the characters in Will Self’s beguiling linked stories are in very bad shape indeed.
Haleh Esfandiari: Prisoner of Tehran
A love of Iran underlies a scholar’s memoir of surreal interrogation and solitary confinement in Tehran.
Paperback Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance 1. THE BLIND SIDE, by Michael Lewis 2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin 3. OUR CHOICE, by Al Gore 4. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 5. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls
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Michael Lewis
Three Cups Of Tea
Greg Mortenson
David Oliver Relin
The Choice
The Glass
Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance 1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham 2. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson 3. BORN OF FIRE, by Sherrilyn Kenyon 4. YOUR HEART BELONGS TO ME, by Dean Koontz 5. TOM CLANCY’S SPLINTER CELL: CONVICTION, by David Michaels
Paperback Trade Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance 1. PUSH, by Sapphire 2. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts 3. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan 4. THE SHACK, by William P. Young 5. THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO, by Stieg Larsson
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Nora Roberts
The Shack
William P. Young
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Stieg Larsson
Hardcover Nonfiction
Top 5 at a Glance 1. OPEN, by Andre Agassi 2. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom 3. A SIMPLE CHRISTMAS, by Mike Huckabee 4. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner 5. WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell
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Malcolm Gladwell
Books of The Times: ‘You Know That Chicken Is Chicken, Right?’
Jonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.
Hardcover Fiction
Top 5 at a Glance 1. UNDER THE DOME, by Stephen King 2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown 3. FORD COUNTY, by John Grisham 4. THE HELP, by Kathryn Stockett 5. THE LACUNA, by Barbara Kingsolver
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Stephen King
The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown
John Grisham
The Help
Barbara Kingsolver
Voters Choose Flannery O'Connor in National Book Award Poll
In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, the O'Connor collection "The Complete Stories" was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history.
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Colum McCann Wins National Book Award
Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.
Newly Released Books
Fiction by Fiction by Penelope Lively, Ha Jin, Lauren Grodstein, Charles Cumming, Paul Auster and Jim Kokoris.
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Penelope Lively
Paul Auster
Charles Dickens
Books of The Times: The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage
This incendiary new book angrily and persuasively connects Theodore Roosevelt’s noxious racial views to his foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.
Library Leader in Era of Change to Step Down
Paul LeClerc announced on Wednesday that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in the summer of 2011.
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National Book Awards: Conflict of Interest Question Arises in Young Readers' Category
A blogger and former book review editor has questioned whether one of the judges on the panel that will select the award for Young People's Literature has a conflict of interest with one of the candidates for the award.
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Young Readers
F.B.I. Kept File on Studs Terkel
While Studs Terkel was following around musicians, baseball players and other hardworking Americans in the course of his journalistic duties, it turns out that Mr. Terkel was being followed himself.
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Studs Terkel
The Americans
Cellphone Apps Challenge the Rise of E-Readers
Some readers prefer the convenience of small-screen smartphones to e-readers.
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Books of The Times: Gratitude’s Grace Can Be Itself a Gift
A scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives.
The Pour: An Invitation to Read, Sniff and Taste
Six new books about wine can help the reader to better understand what’s in the glass.
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The Authors' Hearts Beat Faster. Publishing Was So Close Now. . .
Harlequin Enterprises, the queen of the romance world, has signed a partnership agreement with Author Solutions, a company that helps aspiring scribes self-publish their books.
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Harlequin
More English Translations on the Way for Nobel Winner's Novels
Metropolitan Books has acquired the North American rights to publish two novels by Herta Muller, the Romanian-born German novelist and essayist who was awarded the Nobel Prize last month.
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Sullenberger Takes Issue With New Book
A pilot whom many consider a hero takes issue with a new account of the flight that landed in the Hudson.
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Books of The Times: Desperately Seeking Dad: A Murder Mystery
Though Ed Lazar’s younger son, Zachary, did not know his father well, he has written a pungent-sounding but maddeningly vague book about Ed’s murder.
In Fleury’s Memoir, Rangers Years Are a ‘Nightmare’
With its revelations of sexual abuse and details of substance abuse, Theo Fleury’s memoir has rocked the hockey world as surely as Andre Agassi’s recent memoir rocked tennis.
Arts, Briefly: Winnie-The-Pooh Returns to Court
The producer who acquired licensing rights to the Winnie-the-Pooh works and characters from A. A. Milne has been suing Disney for rights infringement since 1991, and isn’t stopping now, according to BBC News.
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