Books Update from The New York Times Friday, July 23, 2010
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- On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review -
'The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham'
By SELINA HASTINGS
Reviewed by DAVID LEAVITT
Selina Hastings's biography sees the origins of Somerset
Maugham's habit of cruelty in his cruel childhood.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
Excerpt
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'A Great Unrecorded History: A New Life of E. M.
Forster'
By WENDY MOFFAT
Reviewed by COLM TOIBIN
Wendy Moffat's well-written and perceptive biography does
not make E. M. Forster's sexuality explain everything,
though of course it explains a great deal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
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- Also in This Week's Book Review -
'Father of the Rain'
By LILY KING
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER
Lily King's novel delves into the relationship between a
charismatic but troubled man and his devoted daughter.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
Paper Cuts: Questions for Lily King
http://papercuts.blogs.
Histories of Yoga in America
By STEFANIE SYMAN and ROBERT LOVE
Reviewed by PANKAJ MISHRA
Two books on how yoga was packaged and promoted in different
ways in America, depending on the audience and the era.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
'What Is Left the Daughter'
By HOWARD NORMAN
Reviewed by DANIEL WALLACE
Howard Norman's crisp epistolary novel explores the
illogic of love and the violent chaos left in its wake.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
'Termite Parade'
By JOSHUA MOHR
Reviewed by REBECCA BARRY
The disorderly threesome in this novel are marginalized and
angry, but for good reason.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
'The Cookbook Collector'
By ALLEGRA GOODMAN
Reviewed by DOMINIQUE BROWNING
Amid clear echoes of "Sense and Sensibility," two
sisters of emotionally opposite persuasions navigate a world
on the brink of 9/11 in Allegra Goodman's new novel.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
'Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of
America'
By JACK RAKOVE
Reviewed by VIRGINIA DeJOHN ANDERSON
Jack Rakove argues that the struggle for American
independence molded the founders as much as they molded it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
Rock and Roll Fan Memoirs
By STEVE ALMOND and MARK EDMUNDSON
Reviewed by HOWARD HAMPTON
Two redemption-rock chronicles, one earnest, one jocular.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
'The Great Silence'
By JULIET NICOLSON
Reviewed by MIRANDA SEYMOUR
A history of the aftermath of World War I, when Britain
strove to suppress its grief with willed gaiety.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
'Being Wrong'
By KATHRYN SCHULZ
Reviewed by DANIEL GILBERT
Why it feels so good to be right, and what happens to us
when our wrongness is exposed.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
Excerpt
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'Dreyfus'
By RUTH HARRIS
Reviewed by LEO DAMROSCH
A patient, fair-minded exploration of the human ideals,
hatreds and delusions that were on display in the Dreyfus
Affair, "the most famous cause célèbre in French
history."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
'Through the History of the Cold War'
Reviewed by MARK ATWOOD LAWRENCE
A collection of letters between George F. Kennan and the
historian John Lukacs sheds light on the intellectual
underpinnings of Kennan's notion of "containing" the
Soviets.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
'The Eitingons'
By MARY-KAY WILMERS
Reviewed by RICHARD LOURIE
This biography of an influential Russian clan encompasses
the Soviet secret police and Sigmund Freud's inner circle.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
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- Best Sellers -
Hardcover Fiction
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Paperback Mass-Market Fiction
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Paperback Nonfiction
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Hardcover Advice
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Paperback Advice
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Children's Books
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Graphic Books
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- Related Columns -
Inside the List
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Editors' Choice
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Paperback Row
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- Book Review Features -
LETTER FROM INDIA
Somerset Maugham's Swami
By DAVID SHAFTEL
Long before Elizabeth Gilbert, Somerset Maugham turned the
ashram experience into a monster best seller, "The
Razor's Edge."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
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Book Review Podcast
Featuring Allegra Goodman on her novel "The Cookbook
Collector"; and Stefanie Syman on her history of yoga in
America, "The Subtle Body."
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- More Book News and Reviews -
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
New Poetry Collections
Reviewed by DANA JENNINGS
Poetry by Luljeta Lleshanaku, Lightsey Darst, Brian Turner,
Polina Barskova, Kostas Anagnopoulos, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
and Pattiann Rogers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
Woody Allen's Talk Therapy: Audiobooks by a
Technophobe
By DAVE ITZKOFF
The filmmaker discusses bringing his essay collections to a
new medium.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/
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Paper Cuts
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Stray Questions for: Lily King
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Book Review Podcast: Mo Willems and Jon J Muth
http://papercuts.blogs.
Stray Questions for: John Brandon
http://papercuts.blogs.
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