'Knife
Fights'
By JOHN A. NAGL
Reviewed by DEXTER FILKINS
John A. Nagl
writes about his 20-year struggle to prod the Army into adapting to the modern
reality of guerrilla war.
'The
Invisible Front'
By YOCHI DREAZEN
Reviewed by DAVID ROHDE
Through the
story of one family, Yochi Dreazen examines the military's response to rising
numbers of post-Iraq and -Afghanistan suicides.
'Why
We Lost'
By DANIEL BOLGER
Reviewed by ANDREW J. BACEVICH
In "Why
We Lost," Daniel Bolger says abysmal generalship doomed American efforts
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Nuruddin
Farah: By the Book
The author of
"Hiding in Plain Sight" wasn't much of a reader as a child:
"Books were hard to come by . . . where I grew up, but also because there
were no books for children in those days."
·
'The
Lost Tribe of Coney Island'
By CLAIRE PRENTICE
Reviewed by ROBIN HEMLEY
In the early
1900s, an American huckster brought despair to a group of Filipino
tribespeople.
'Let
Me Be Frank With You'
By RICHARD FORD
Reviewed by JONATHAN MILES
Richard
Ford's aging Everyman surveys his life, and the battered New Jersey landscape,
after Hurricane Sandy.
'Napoleon:
A Life'
By ANDREW ROBERTS
Reviewed by DUNCAN KELLY
The French
emperor as soldier, statesman, intellectual and flawed visionary.
'On
His Own Terms'
By RICHARD NORTON
SMITH
Reviewed by TIMOTHY NOAH
Nelson
Rockefeller, the subject of a new biography, was a big-government, big-spending
liberal - and a Republican.
'More
Awesome Than Money'
By JIM DWYER
Reviewed by KATE CRAWFORD
Four
university students tried to create a nonprofit, privacy-protected alternative
to Facebook.
'William
Wells Brown: An African American Life'
By EZRA GREENSPAN
Reviewed by NELL IRVIN PAINTER
Born into
slavery, William Wells Brown escaped to freedom and reinvented himself as an
author, lecturer and doctor.
By KERRY HOWLEY
Reviewed by KATHERINE DUNN
A writer
finds sublime poetry in the world of mixed martial arts.
'Tennessee
Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh'
By JOHN LAHR
Reviewed by BLAKE BAILEY
Tennessee
Williams spun unhappiness into dramatic gold, John Lahr's study shows.
'Man
Alive'
By THOMAS PAGE McBEE
Reviewed by HENRY GIARDINA
A transgender
writer's memoir of forgiveness and discovery.
'The
Deluge'
By ADAM TOOZE
Reviewed by GARY J. BASS
Between the
Great War and the Depression, the world was remade by American economic and
military power.
Crime
Patricia
Cornwell's 'Flesh and Blood,' and More
By MARILYN STASIO
In Cornwell's
new thriller, Kay Scarpetta's expertise is needed with a murder victim, a man
once accused of being a terrorist.
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