Sunday, June 10, 2012

Sunday Book Reviews in The New York Times


‘Canada’
David Plowden
In Richard Ford’s novel, a teenage boy’s life is changed when his parents make the unlikely decision to rob a bank.

John Irving: By the Book

John IrvingThe author, most recently, of the novel “In One Person” has little desire to meet other writers. “It’s better to read a good writer than meet one,” he says.

‘People Who Eat Darkness’

An account of the murder of a young British woman in Japan.

‘A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman’

A historian’s study of the dramatist with a genius for the concise phrase and the provocative gesture.

‘College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be’

A professor deplores the current state of colleges.

‘The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat’

Thomas McNamee traces the career of Craig Claiborne, the food critic who expanded the culinary horizons of American home cooks.

‘The Hunger Angel’

Herta Müller’s novel of a Soviet labor camp.

‘The Chaperone’

In Laura Moriarty’s novel, a Midwestern matron accompanies young Louise Brooks to New York in the summer of 1922.
Norman Manea

‘The Lair’

Norman Manea explores the implications of exile in this novel about Romanian intellectuals living in the United States.

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