Saturday, August 30, 2014

Books Update from The New York Times


'The Bone Clocks'

In David Mitchell's "The Bone Clocks," a 15-year-old girl runs away from home in 1984 and becomes entrapped in an otherworldly battle between good and evil that will follow her for 60 years.
Also in the Book Review
Rick Perlstein

Rick Perlstein: By the Book

The author, most recently, of "The Invisible Bridge," would like Chekhov to write his life story. "Sometimes I think he knows me better than I know myself, even when he's ostensibly writing about Russian ladies over a hundred years ago."

'Suspicious Minds'

A psychiatrist and his philosopher brother discuss how mental illness reflects culture.

'Your Face in Mine'

A man undergoes a surgical procedure to transform from white to black.
Andy Coulson in 2012 and Rebekah Brooks in 2011, before they were charged.

'Hack Attack'

David Carr reviews "Hack Attack," in which Nick Davies traces his campaign to uncover the full extent of the British phone-hacking scandal at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World.
Brittani Sonnenberg

'Home Leave'

A restless executive subjects his family to an itinerant existence on three continents.

'The Narrow Road to the Deep North'

A frail humanity survives the unspeakable in Richard Flanagan's novel of the Burma-Thailand Railway.

'Mr. Gwyn and Three Times at Dawn'

A celebrated British author embarks on a strange new career in these linked novellas by Alessandro Baricco.
Vanessa Manko

'The Invention of Exile'

A Russian immigrant, deported from the United States, attempts to reunite with his family.

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