"It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have."
—Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC?-AD 65) [The Younger] Roman Stoic philosopher, writer, tutor
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Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man’s Bucolic Idyll
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:04 GMT
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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Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:41:11 GMT
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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Book Sets Off Immigration Debate in Germany
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:23:13 GMT
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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Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:36:52 GMT
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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Books of The Times: Young Man Seeks Poetry in World War II’s Ruins
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:30:04 GMT
A British author links his grandfather’s World War II bombing missions to the war poetry of the time.
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Roger Ebert: No Longer an Eater, Still a Cook
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:30:03 GMT
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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Books of The Times: Preppily Perplexed? A New Guidebook
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:47:21 GMT
“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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Freedom Trains
Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:52:05 GMT
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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Simian Says
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:45:10 GMT
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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Bringing It All Back Home
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:17 GMT
The historian Sean Wilentz situates Bob Dylan in a long continuum of American music, literature, religion and politics.
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Stormy Weather
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:31 GMT
This novel’s protagonist is a World War II meteorologist.
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Worlds in Collision
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A Brahmin astrophysicist and his Dalit assistant are the interdependent poles of Manu Joseph’s novel.
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No. 1 Sleuth
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
A history of the beloved matinee detective Charlie Chan.
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Hannibal Rising
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:28 GMT
A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.
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Lost Tribe
Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:30 GMT
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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