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Last Build Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 23:24:19 GMT

Raymond Carver’s Life and Stories

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:08 GMT

Raymond CarverCarol 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.

Andre Agassi’s Hate of the Game

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:42:18 GMT

Andre Agassi at the French Open finals in 1991 ...Bracingly devoid of triumphalist homily, Andre Agassi’s is one of the most passionately anti-sports books ever written by a superstar athlete.

My True Story

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:02:50 GMT

A history of memoir, from St. Augustine to James Frey.

Haleh Esfandiari: Prisoner of Tehran

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:36:02 GMT

Haleh EsfandiariA love of Iran underlies a scholar’s memoir of surreal interrogation and solitary confinement in Tehran.

Double Agency

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:39:26 GMT

In this novel, British and American spies clash in the buildup to the Beijing Olympics.

Disturbing the Comfortable

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:31 GMT

Stories rooted in horror, fable and fairy tale, by the Russian writer Ludmilla Petrushevskaya.

Taking No Prisoners

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:19:15 GMT

A historical novel about the ferocious Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest and the slaves who followed him.

Return to Progress

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 08:03:01 GMT

Collected columns denouncing the Bush wars and tax cuts and recounting the fits of nerves that President Obama coolly overcomes.

Into the West

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:04:01 GMT

James K. Polk, around 1840.A thorough, well-wrought political history of James K. Polk’s presidency and the triumph of Manifest Destiny.

A Soldier’s Story

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:24:07 GMT

Pfc. John Nelson, the author’s grandfather, 1917.A writer revisits the 1918 battle that left its mark on his grandfather.

Word Made Flesh

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:55:11 GMT

Questions for, quibbles with and tributes to the sometimes inscrutable protagonist of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

The Pain That Binds

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:02:35 GMT

In this novel, a girl’s disappearance sets off ripples of grief in a small South Dakota town.

A Jaundiced View

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:15:05 GMT

The lives — as well as the livers — of the characters in Will Self’s beguiling linked stories are in very bad shape indeed.

Books of The Times: ‘You Know That Chicken Is Chicken, Right?’

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 16:23:21 GMT

Jonathan Safran FoerJonathan Safran Foer uses his literary gifts to give the reader some very visceral, very gruesome descriptions of factory farming and the slaughterhouse.

Colum McCann Wins National Book Award

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:43:39 GMT

Colum McCann won for his novel “Let the Great World Spin,” while T.J. Stiles won in the nonfiction category.

Library Leader in Era of Change to Step Down

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:48:47 GMT

Paul LeClercPaul LeClerc announced that he would step down as president of the New York Public Library in 2011.

Books of The Times: The Queasy Side of Theodore Roosevelt’s Diplomatic Voyage

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:29:35 GMT

James BradleyThis incendiary new book angrily and persuasively connects Theodore Roosevelt’s noxious racial views to his foreign policy miscalculations in Asia.

Newly Released Books

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:34:47 GMT

Fiction by Penelope Lively, Ha Jin, Lauren Grodstein, Charles Cumming, Paul Auster and Jim Kokoris.

Books of The Times: Gratitude’s Grace Can Be Itself a Gift

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:06:59 GMT

Margaret VisserA scholarly, many-angled examination of what gratitude is and how it functions in our lives.

Cellphone Apps Challenge the Rise of E-Readers

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:47:32 GMT

Travis Bryant, with his daughter, Ivey, reading “The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril” on his iPhone at their home in Alabama.Some readers prefer the convenience of small-screen smartphones to e-readers.

The Pour: An Invitation to Read, Sniff and Taste

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:26:20 GMT

Six new books about wine can help the reader to better understand what’s in the glass.

Books of The Times: Desperately Seeking Dad: A Murder Mystery

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 00:15:59 GMT

Zachary LazarThough 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’

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 04:59:42 GMT

The former Ranger Theo Fleury's new book reveals his sexual abuse by a junior hockey coach.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.

Books of The Times: Memoir Is Palin’s Payback to McCain Campaign

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:12:40 GMT

Former Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska on the campaign trail in September 2008 with Senator John McCain. Sarah Palin’s new book is part cagey spin job and part earnest autobiography. Its most compelling sections deal not with politics, but with her life in Alaska.

Hardcover Fiction

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:33 GMT

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

Hardcover Nonfiction

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:15:31 GMT

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

Paperback Trade Fiction

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:17:08 GMT

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

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:18:55 GMT

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 Nonfiction

Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:19:50 GMT

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

Plotting Thrillers in the Fog of China

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:48:26 GMT

So much of what is known of China’s beating Communist heart is guesswork. But not for the spy novelist.

Crossroads: How Can We Help the World’s Poor?

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:40:07 GMT

Humanitarians are fiercely divided about what helps poor people. It’s clear that doing good is harder than it looks.

Fiction Chronicle

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:33 GMT

Books by Janet Skeslien Charles, Robert Hicks, Anita Diamant, N. M. Kelby and Rebecca Stott.

TBR: Inside the List

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:42:18 GMT

Linda HowardI’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.