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Review: Diary funny, but unsettling
Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on Jeff Kinney's cartoon-heavy novel, captures the epic tragedy of being a 'tween at times a little too well. The writing is funny during individual moments, but the cumulative result is a bit depressing with a surprisingmore
Outrages are not the only truth
The Chairman of the Orange Prize, Daisy Goodwin, has ploughed her way through novels full of grimness. She said many started with a rape and: If I read another sensitive account of a woman coming to terms with bereavement, I was going to slit my wrists.more
Review: Emotions, action run high in Rachel Ward's debut 'Numbers'
Otherworldly powers have long captivated young readers, empowering them, through fantasy, to believe that anything is possible. One might think that, employed by the likes of Stephen King and J.K. Rowling, the permutations of psychic abilities had beenmore
Review: Karl Rove's 'Courage and Consequence' leaves origins of his views largely unexamined
Karl Rove is a true believer, as his memoir's subtitle suggests, in a fighting faith. Much that vexes our current politics flows from the fact that he is an exemplar rather than a singular case. Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in themore
HELL GATE by Linda Fairstein
A Ukrainian cargo ship runs aground in the middle of a cold winter night at the tip of Manhattan Island. Panicking passengers jump overboard when official-looking boats approach with searchlights. When several bodies wash ashore in the early hours of Newmore
MAJOR PETTIGREWS LAST STAND by Helen Simonson
For all readers, there is the hope of finding a writer whose work they have not read or a book by a debut author. Opening these first pages can be an experience fraught with anticipation or disappointment. But once readers discover a new writer who meetsmore
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER by Seth Grahame-Smith
Abraham Lincoln --- the exceptional boy of Sinking Springs Farm, apple of his departed mother's eye, survivor of the trials of Job, and one of the nation's most accomplished vampire hunters --- was sworn in as the 16th President of the United States.more
NEVER LOOK AWAY by Linwood Barclay
Linwood Barclay touched a nerve of mine in his wonderful new thriller, NEVER LOOK AWAY. Actually, he took that nerve, pinched it, stomped on it, and rolled it on the ground all within the first few pages. About a quarter-century ago, I took my ungratefulmore
ARCADIA FALLS by Carol Goodman
Meg Rosenthal and her teenage daughter, Sally, are forced to abandon their upper middle class lifestyle when Jude, Meg's husband, drops dead. Meg is a storyteller and artist who gave up her budding career when she became pregnant. Now, 16 years later,more
Book review of 'Fierce Angels' by Sheri Parks and 'Jesus, Jobs and Justice' by Bettye Collier-Thomas
FIERCE ANGELS The Strong Black Woman in American Life and Culture By Sheri Parks One World. 244 pp. $25 JESUS, JOBS, AND JUSTICE African American Women and Religion By Bettye Collier-Thomas Knopf. 695 pp. $37.50 When I first began to write fictionmore
Book review: Dave Cameron's Schooldays by Bill Coles
Cameron's tale a tasty Eton trifle . . . IT should be the story of the election – a newly-published book has revealed that Tory leader David Cameron used to be a porn director. How can he possibly live such a scandal down – especially when themore
Book review: Cry Havoc ? The Arms Race And The Second World War 1931-1941 by Joe Maiolo
The varied causes of the arms build-up among the major European powers and Japan after 1931 are meticulously charted in this interesting book by King's College war studies lecturer Joe Maiolo. The build-up was in complete contrast to the anti-warmore
Book review of 'Fierce Angels' by Sheri Parks and 'Jesus, Jobs and Justice' by Bettye Collier-Thomas
By Sheri Parks One World. 244 pp. $25 JESUS, JOBS, AND JUSTICE African American Women and Religion By Bettye Collier-Thomas Knopf. 695 pp. $37.50 When I first began to write fiction seriously, I asked a respected colleague for feedback on my work. Hemore
The Whore?s Secret
Some stories need to be told in a whisper. ?Blooms of Darkness,? the Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld?s majestic and humane new novel, takes place in an unnamed Ukrainian city during World War II. As the Germans begin liquidating the city?s Jewishmore
Sins of the Capitalist
Of all the characters Sebastian Faulks introduces in ?A Week in December,? his ambitious, entertaining and often scathingly angry new novel, two merit special attention: a young Muslim plotting to attack a London hospital, and a hedge fund managermore
Book review: Dave Cameron's Schooldays by Bill Coles
Cameron's tale a tasty Eton trifle . . . IT should be the story of the electionmore
Book review: No And Me by Delphine de Vigan
French author Delphine de Vigan's first novel published in English, No And Me is a funny and tender story told through the eyes of an intellectually precocious 13-year-old. Young Parisian Lou Bertignac has an IQ of 160. At school, she is more thanmore
Book review: Cry Havoc
The varied causes of the arms build-up among the major European powers and Japan after 1931 are meticulously charted in this interesting book by King's College war studies lecturer Joe Maiolo. The build-up was in complete contrast to the anti-warmore
Book review: Trespass by Rose Tremain
A departure from the 2008 Orange Prize winner's optimistic last novel, The Road Home, Rose Tremain's latest book, Trespass, is of a much darker nature. Set in the verdant Cevennes hills of southern France, it tells of rivalry and love between two sets ofmore
Book review: Smoking Ears And Screaming Teeth by Trevor Norton
This fascinating, funny book brings to life the scientists who carried out dangerous tests on themselves in the name of their profession. With tales of doctors sniffing poisonous gases, medics injecting themselves with cancerous blood and scientistsmore
'Cassette from my Ex': writers ruminate on old mix tapes of long-gone relationships
Itescape_start39;s a few lines in a short essay from Claudia Gonson, a member of the band the Magnetic Fields, buried within a larger, and appropriately addicting, book of essays. But like many of the short pieces in 'Cassette From My Ex: Stories andmore
Book Review | 'Keeping the Feast: One Couple?s Story of Love, Food, and Healing in Italy,' by Paula Butturini
When we find ourselves coping with pain, the kitchen can become our therapist, food our source of comfort. The joy of cooking was certainly the salve that soothed the emotional wounds that the journalist Paula Butturini endured as she and her husbandmore
Book Review | 'The Harvard Psychedelic Club,' by Don Lattin
Bits of the Trickster were shot into orbit for the ultimate trip after his death at 75. The Seeker, 78, lives on Maui, where he has gone to die. The Teacher, now 90, finally published a memoir last year. And the Healer, 67, presides over anmore
Book Review | 'What We Are,' by Peter Nathaniel Malae
It?s Cinco de Mayo in San Jose, Calif., and our man Paul ? pundit, cynic, iconoclast ? pummels a Mexican at a march for immigration reform, for which infraction he?s charged with a hate crime and hauled off to jail. And so begins ?What We Are,? Petermore
Book Review | 'The Genius in All of Us,' by David Shenk
You?ve probably heard it at one time or another: Most of us use only 10 percent of our brains. More factoid than fact, a claim of unknown provenance and dubious accuracy, the idea sticks around because of the enduring appeal of its underlying premise.more
Book Review | 'Occupied City,' by David Peace
When I started to read David Peace?s new novel, I had, frankly, absolutely no idea of what was going on. The opening line: ?In the occupied city, you are a writer and you are running.? As it turns out, the idea of running ? ?step by step-step by step? ?more
Book Review | 'The Making of African America: The Four Great Migrations,' by Ira Berlin
My parents bought their first house in 1960, six years after emigrating from Ireland. They?d grown up with a fierce sense of place ? of land, family, history ? and they were determined to recreate that sense for their children. That little house in themore
Book Review | 'Voodoo Histories: The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History,' by David Aaronovitch
Paranoia is a bipartisan temptation. Amid last August?s town hall frenzy, there was a stir over a poll showing that roughly a third of Republicans believed that Barack Obama had been born outside the United States. Liberals trumpeted the finding as proofmore
Book Review | 'Silk Parachute,' by John McPhee
For the last 45 years, John McPhee has come out with a work of narrative nonfiction about every year and a half. The quantity impresses, but not nearly so much as the quality. McPhee has a nearly cultish following among nonfiction writers, who admire hismore
Book Review | 'A Week in December,' by Sebastian Faulks
Of all the characters Sebastian Faulks introduces in ?A Week in December,? his ambitious, entertaining and often scathingly angry new novel, two merit special attention: a young Muslim plotting to attack a London hospital, and a hedge fund managermore