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Stephen King’s Glass Menagerie

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:21:35 GMT

When an enormous transparent dome settles over a small town in Maine in Stephen King’s new novel, it’s just fine with Big Jim, the local tyrant-in-waiting, and his pet goon squad.

The Critic’s Critic

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:03:13 GMT

Samuel JohnsonA valuable new biography of Samuel Johnson, the most eminent of all literary critics.

Barbara Kingsolver’s Artists and Idols

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:09:25 GMT

Barbara KingsolverThis novel, about a boy’s consequential bonds with Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, is a call to conscience and connection.

Animal Planet

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:32:18 GMT

Amy Gerstler’s poems — skillful in every kind of comedy, yet deeply serious — show a fondness for animals without sentimentalizing them.

Happy Days

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:17:34 GMT

An argument that can-do optimism has hardened into a suffocating force that bears little relation to genuine happiness.

Her Royal Century

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:19:45 GMT

The queen mother in 2001.This official biography chronicles the parties, the games, the trips, the charitable causes — and the trouble thanks to Edward VIII.

Master of Disaster

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 01:32:02 GMT

John Irving’s new novel follows a father and son through 50 years in “a world of accidents.”

She Did Go Home Again

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:36:19 GMT

Rhoda JanzenA wonderfully intelligent and frank memoir about the Mennonite upbringing Rhoda Janzen returned to after an emotional and physical crisis.

Short Cuts

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 05:36:58 GMT

Julie Christie and Robert Altman on the set of the 1971 film “McCabe & Mrs. Miller.”The life of Robert Altman, told in interviews with nearly 200 of his friends, colleagues and family members.

Forecast: Self-Serving

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:21:36 GMT

A guide to using game theory to divine and shape the future, based on the premise that people do what’s best for them.

Deadly Summit

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:31:53 GMT

Camp VI on K2, 1939.An American climber recounts some of the most dramatic attempts on the peak of K2.

Heavy Lifting

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:03:30 GMT

Hulk HoganA candid memoir from the multitalented wrestler Hulk Hogan.

Children’s Books: Field Guides to Fairies

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 22:18:50 GMT

A recent crop of fairy-themed novels and reworked fairy tales is proving the resilience of an age-old genre.

Children’s Books: Whale Riders

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:26:55 GMT

A tightly paced young adult novel set in a steampunk version of the First World War.

Children’s Books: Foreign Aid

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:27:28 GMT

This lovely picture book tells a true story about Masai villagers who bestow a heartfelt gift after 9/11.

Children’s Books: Boys at War

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 16:07:23 GMT

A young adult novel about an 18-year-old American soldier struggling under the weight of his experience in Iraq.

Children’s Books: Blowin’ in the Wind

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:28:41 GMT

A Dust Bowl farm in the Texas Panhandle, photographed by Dorothea Lange, from “Years of Dust.”Two young adult histories and a graphic novel about the worst ecological disaster in American history.

Children’s Books: Everyday Weirdness

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:29:27 GMT

This illustrated collection of surreal tales features water buffalo, stick figures and rivers of unread poetry.

Children’s Books: Snow Zone

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:29:59 GMT

In “The Snow Day,” a bunny child awakes to find the ground covered in white.Books about a squirrel waiting for winter; a bunny having a snow day; and Santa getting ready for Christmas.

Children’s Books: Color Schemes

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:31:44 GMT

Edna the penguin finds “something else” besides black, white and blue in “A Penguin Story.”An illustrated poem about the seasons; a story about a penguin searching for new colors; and a collection of classic fairy tales with vivid pictures.

Children’s Books: Poached, Then Coddled

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:33:11 GMT

“The Odd Egg” answers the question: “Are you my mother?”A duck discovers a huge speckled egg in “The Odd Egg”; readers free a frog by opening the pop-up book “Big Frog Can’t Fit In.”

Children’s Books: When Bulldozers Roamed the Earth

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:31:08 GMT

“Dinotrux” imagines the natural history of heavy equipment.A book imagining trucks as dinosaurs, and other explorations of the primal place of machines in the lives of small children.

Children’s Books: GRRRR!!! Oops!

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:32:27 GMT

This beautifully illustrated retelling of the classic fable has only seven words, all sound effects.

Children’s Books: The Art of Sound

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:32:39 GMT

A pop-up romp through cubism and futurism, and a lesson in early-20th-century modernist formalism.

Children’s Books: Family Circle

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:32:57 GMT

A journey in pictures and verse from an unexplored beach to a busy music-filled family room and into a tranquil, moonlit night.

Exhibition Review | 'A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy': At the Morgan, the Jane Austen Her Family Knew

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:47:47 GMT

"A Woman's Wit: Jane Austen's Life and Legacy," an exhibition including many of the author's letters and manuscripts, is at the Morgan Library & Museum.“A Woman’s Wit: Jane Austen’s Life and Legacy,” a new exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, includes many personal letters and early manuscripts by the author.

No. 1 Omission From Top 10 Book List: Women

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:52:25 GMT

Publishers Weekly's choices for top books of the year has drawn protests from a women's literary group, which notes that there are no female writers on the list.

An Appraisal: Other Voyages in the Shadow of Lévi-Strauss

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 20:02:00 GMT

The man Claude Lévi-Strauss described as his “best informant.”In 1978 I made my first reporting trip to the Brazilian Amazon, with an orange-and-white Penguin paperback edition of “Tristes Tropiques” as the only book squeezed into my gear.

For Thrillers, Glenn Beck Is Becoming New Oprah

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:21:56 GMT

Glenn Beck with Vince Flynn's “Pursuit of Honor” on Oct. 12.The outspoken media darling of populist conservatism uses the plots of the novels as a springboard for issues.

Books of The Times: Firing Bullets of Data at Cozy Anti-Science

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:42:48 GMT

Michael SpecterMichael Specter’s hotly argued diatribe targets those he thinks are emblems of stubbornly anti-scientific thinking, like Prince Charles, Dr. Andrew Weil and Whole Foods.

Francisco Ayala, a Spanish Novelist and Literary Scholar, Dies at 103

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:32:32 GMT

Francisco Ayala spoke to the Spanish Royal Academy in 1984.Mr. Ayala was an eminent Spanish novelist whose work explored societies in which there is much despotism and little benevolence.

Postcards From the Edge: Tocqueville’s Letters Home

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:59:22 GMT

“This population is one of the happiest in the world.” —Alexis de Tocqueville in a letter to his father about the Americans he was encountering.Most of Alexis de Tocqueville’s letters home from America have never been published in English. But Frederick Brown has translated them for a volume due out next year.

Books of The Times: Wartime China’s Elegant Enigma

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:39:43 GMT

Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, right, with Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House.Mme. Chiang Kai-shek led a long, vastly complicated life, one that is richly detailed in Hannah Pakula’s long, vastly complicated new biography.

Books of The Times: The Obama the Campaign Knew

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:50:17 GMT

Barack Obama, then an Illinois senator, after a town hall meeting with veterans in San Antonio in March 2008. Barack Obama’s campaign manager David Plouffe and The New Yorker’s Hendrik Hertzberg offer readers a chance to relive the long, winding road to victory.

NDiaye, Novelist, Wins France’s Top Literary Prize

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:14:39 GMT

The French author Marie Ndiaye after she was awarded the Prix Goncourt.The French writer Marie NDiaye won France’s Prix Goncourt on Monday for “Three Strong Women,” her tale of the struggles of women in Europe and Africa.

Books of The Times: Bite-Size Legal Trouble and Suspense

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:51:44 GMT

John GrishamMr. Grisham took seven of his unused plot ideas and turned each of them into a sharp, lean tale free of subplots and padding.

Hardcover Fiction

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:36:32 GMT

Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE GATHERING STORM, by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson
2. THE LOST SYMBOL, by Dan Brown
3. TRUE BLUE, by David Baldacci
4. LAST NIGHT IN TWISTED RIVER, by John Irving
5. PURSUIT OF HONOR, by Vince Flynn

Hardcover Nonfiction

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:21:49 GMT

Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE BOOK OF BASKETBALL, by Bill Simmons
2. SUPERFREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
3. HAVE A LITTLE FAITH, by Mitch Albom
4. WHAT THE DOG SAW, by Malcolm Gladwell
5. ARGUING WITH IDIOTS, written and edited by Glenn Beck, Kevin Balfe and others

Paperback Trade Fiction

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:23:25 GMT

Top 5 at a Glance
1. BED OF ROSES, by Nora Roberts
2. PUSH, by Sapphire
3. SAY YOU'RE ONE OF THEM, by Uwem Akpan
4. THE SHACK, by William P. Young
5. OLIVE KITTERIDGE, by Elizabeth Strout

Paperback Mass-Market Fiction

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:24:12 GMT

Top 5 at a Glance
1. THE ASSOCIATE, by John Grisham
2. THE UNTAMED BRIDE, by Stephanie Laurens
3. DEADLOCK, by Iris Johansen
4. CROSS COUNTRY, by James Patterson
5. HOT ON HER HEELS, by Susan Mallery

Paperback Nonfiction

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:58:16 GMT

Top 5 at a Glance
1. FREAKONOMICS, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
2. THREE CUPS OF TEA, by Greg Mortenson and David Oliver Relin
3. I HOPE THEY SERVE BEER IN HELL, by Tucker Max
4. THE GLASS CASTLE, by Jeannette Walls
5. BLINK, by Malcolm Gladwell

Essay: Is Technology Dumbing Down Japanese?

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:23:01 GMT

E-mail and cellphone novels may be making the language easier — even for the Japanese.

Fiction Chronicle

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 01:43:42 GMT

Novels by Mattox Roesch, Nick Cave, H. M. Naqvi and Sam Savage.

Long-Delayed Opening for History of, and by, Joseph Papp

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:10:39 GMT

Joseph Papp at the Delacorte Theater construction site in 1961.If Joseph Papp had had his way, “Free for All,” Kenneth Turan’s newly published oral history of Papp and the Public Theater he helped found, would never have seen the light of day.

Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Two-Part Harmonies

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:48:16 GMT

In trying to understand the work of the French anthropologist, look for pairs of opposites common to all human societies.

Arts | Westchester: After 96 Novels, Still Waiting for a Best Seller

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 07:03:24 GMT

Todd Strasser of Larchmont often uses fictionalized versions of nearby towns and schools in his novels for children and young adults.

A Chat About 'The Good Soldiers'

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 23:48:33 GMT

David Finkel talks about his book, "The Good Soldiers," based on eight months in Iraq with a battalion sent as part of the surge.

A Southern Mirrored Window

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 03:27:01 GMT

Kathryn Stockett, author of the popular novel “The Help.”Since it came out in February, “The Help” has been embraced by book clubs and bloggers who can’t stop recommending it to their friends.

Collecting Headlines Funnier Than This

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:27:06 GMT

Hashing out headlines at The Onion: From left, Will Tracy, Dave Kornfeld and Todd Hanson.It’s immediately apparent just flipping through “Our Front Pages: 21 Years of Greatness, Virtue, and Moral Rectitude From America’s Finest News Source,” that the art of the fake headline has evolved.

TBR: Inside the List

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:24:41 GMT

John IrvingHulk Hogan’s memoir enters the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 12. Another former grappler, John Irving, hits the fiction list at No. 4. Do I smell a matchup?