The New York Times Weekend Book Review

Books Update

'There Is Simply Too Much to Think About' By SAUL BELLOW. Edited by BENJAMIN TAYLOR. Reviewed by MARTIN AMIS Martin Amis reviews a new collection of Saul Bellow's nonfiction, including criticism, interviews and speeches. 'The Life of Saul Bellow' By ZACHARY LEADER Reviewed by SAM TANENHAUS The first volume of Zachary Leader's biography of Saul Bellow ends in 1964, with the publication of "Herzog." Also in the Book Review Philip Glass: By the Book The composer and author of "Words Without Music" says his favorite books about music "are not serious books about the philosophy of music or music awareness or whatever you want to call it." By the Book: Archive 'Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat' By PAUL HALPERN Reviewed by JENNIFER OUELLETTE The story of two great physicists and their doomed competition to create a grand unified theory. 'Missoula' By JON KRAKAUER Reviewed by EMILY BAZELON Jon Krakauer describes cases of acquaintance rape at the University of Montana. 'Academy Street' By MARY COSTELLO Reviewed by BELINDA McKEON Mary Costello's debut novel is an intimate portrait of one Irish immigrant's life. 'The Fair Fight' By ANNA FREEMAN Reviewed by KATHARINE GRANT Anna Freeman sets her novel in the world of female pugilists and their patrons in late-18th-century England. 'Ordinary Light' By TRACY K. SMITH Reviewed by DARRYL PINCKNEY A memoir of race, faith and a mother's devotion, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Tracy K. Smith. 'Days of Rage' By BRYAN BURROUGH Reviewed by MAURICE ISSERMAN Bryan Burrough examines domestic terrorism of the 1970s and '80s. More