'Philip
Larkin: Life, Art and Love'
By JAMES BOOTH
Reviewed by CLIVE JAMES
James Booth's
new biography of Philip Larkin demonstrates why the poet's work is great.
'Penelope
Fitzgerald: A Life'
By HERMIONE LEE
Reviewed by STACY SCHIFF
Hermione
Lee's latest biography is of the English novelist Penelope Fitzgerald, a late
bloomer who published her first book at 58 and became famous at 80.
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Gabrielle
Hamilton: By the Book
The chef and
author of "Prune" and "Blood, Bones and Butter": "The
perfectness of reading is when a book hits you and you hit it and . . . you are
completed in a way you have never been before."
'Hiding
in Plain Sight'
By NURUDDIN FARAH
Reviewed by LAILA LALAMI
The terrorist
killing of a Somali U.N. official brings strife to his family in Nuruddin
Farah's novel.
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'Embattled
Rebel'
By JAMES M. MCPHERSON
Reviewed by STEVEN HAHN
James M.
McPherson reconsiders Jefferson Davis, the Confederate president and military
commander.
'Deep
Down Dark'
By HéCTOR TOBAR
Reviewed by MAC McCLELLAND
In 2010, the
world was riveted by the struggle of 33 Chilean miners entombed nearly half a
mile underground.
Audiobooks
'Fahrenheit
451'
By RAY BRADBURY. Read
by TIM ROBBINS.
Reviewed by DAVE ITZKOFF
Is
"Fahrenheit 451" a parable about censorship or an indictment of the
cultural distraction of technology?
Dan
Stevens Reads Homer Translations
By CAROLINE ALEXANDER
Dan Stevens
reads Robert Fitzgerald's classic translations of Homer.
'Gravity's
Rainbow'
By THOMAS PYNCHON.
Read by GEORGE GUIDALL.
Reviewed by TOM McCARTHY
A skilled
audiobook performance brings new life to "Gravity's Rainbow" at age
41.
'Nightmares!'
By JASON SEGEL and
KIRSTEN MILLER. Read by JASON SEGEL.
Reviewed by RENEE DALE
Twelve-year-old
Charlie must confront his own fears to save his brother from the netherworld.
'The
Port Chicago 50' and 'The Family Romanov'
By ELIZABETH WEIN
Two
audiobooks for young readers tell stories about the past.
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