NPR BooksStar of the OrientThis novel’s protean, real-life heroine starts out as a film sensation in occupied China and ends up in Japanese Parliament.
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TBR: Inside the ListAfter his suicide, David Foster Wallace has a book on the list for the first time; John Barth, one of Wallace's forebears, also appears on the list.
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NBA's Alonzo Mourning Touts 'Resilience' In MemoirIn 2000, the muscular, 6-feet-10-inch NBA star was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening kidney disease. Alonzo Mourning made a full recovery following a transplant. Now, he's written a memoir about the obstacles he had to overcome on the road back to the NBA. Categories: Book Reviews
Doris Lessing Revisits — And Rewrites — The PastAs she nears the end of her own life, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is attempting to make some sense of her beginnings: Her new novel, Alfred And Emily, imagines a better life for her parents — one in which they marry different people. Categories: Book Reviews
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Divorce American StyleAlec Baldwin’s attack on the family law system is also a sad memoir of a marriage gone desperately sour.
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Dying of the LightWith no faith in an afterlife, why should an agnostic fear death? On this simple question, Barnes hangs an elegant memoir and meditation, full of a novelist’s affection for his characters.
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The Master and the MistressAnnette Gordon-Reed traces the experiences of this slave family, and their relationship to the Jeffersons, over three generations.
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The CounterinsurgentAccording to Linda Robinson’s book on the latest chapter in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus wanted to fight smarter and send more troops.
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Archive: Book Review PodcastThis week: Alex Kuczynski on Alec Baldwin’s memoir of divorce; Charles McGrath on a Nobel Prize controversy; James Traub on Gen. David Petraeus; and Dwight Garner with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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Essay: The Ambition of the Short StoryThere are virtues associated with smallness. It is the realm of elegance and grace. It’s also the realm of perfection.
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