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NY Times Books- Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective November 13, 2009The themes of this collection are a good way to characterize the author himself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning.By STEVEN PINKER
- Nabokov’s Last Puzzle November 13, 2009The unfinished “Original of Laura” comes ready for devotees to read and remix.By DAVID GATES
- Performance Anxiety November 13, 2009Philip Roth’s novel stars an aging actor who can no longer act.By KATHRYN HARRISON
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- When Type Was Poured Hot November 13, 2009In his new memoir, Harold Evans recalls an exuberant run in 20th-century journalism.By DAVID CARR
- The Cheating Game November 13, 2009James McManus explores the characteristically American history of poker.By ROBERT PINSKY
- The Lies They Told November 13, 2009Reconstructing officials’ false and ineffectual responses to 9/11.By JACOB HEILBRUNN
- Rational Irrationality November 13, 2009The story of 2008’s crash, and an effort to size up the problem.By PAUL M. BARRETT
- Illness and Intimacy November 13, 2009The professor of psychiatry who discussed her own manic depression in “An Unquiet Mind” revisits her husband’s death from cancer.By MICHAEL GREENBERG
- Malcolm Gladwell, Eclectic Detective November 13, 2009
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- Web Exclusive Children's Book Reviews: 11/11/2009 November 11, 2009This round-up of web-exclusive children's book reviews from Publishers Weekly includes new books by Harriet Ziefert, Alan Armstrong, Claire Zulkey, and Julie Anne Peters.
- Nonfiction Reviews November 9, 2009Starred reviews for: Still Life by Melissa Milgrom; Paper Fortunes by Roy C. Smith; Our Times by A.N. Wilson; The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattio; Love & War by John and Stasi Eldredge;
- Children's Book Reviews: 11/9/2009 November 9, 2009
- Fiction Book Reviews: 11/9/2009 November 9, 2009Reviewed this week, new novels from Peter Carey, Alexander McCall Smith, Katherine Center, John Lescroat, and Lori Lansens. Plus, Lindsey Davis takes on the English civil war, Ann Mah sends an out-of-work journo to Beijing, James Greer plots a clever caper, and John McNally digs into writerly envy.
- Web Exclusive Book Reviews: 11/9/2009 November 9, 2009
- PW Talks with Jonathan Dee November 9, 2009To the fantastically successful family in Jonathan Dee's The Privileges, failure is foreign, and money is not money. Is this perilous? Perhaps.
- PW Pick of the Week: The Language of Life by Francis Collins November 9, 2009
- Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 November 2, 2009Stars for Elif Batuman's The Possessed, Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, Sean Carroll's From Eternity to Here, Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing, Lee Smith's The Strong Horse, and Andrew Friedman's Knives at Dawn.
- Children's Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 November 2, 2009This week's reviews include picture books from Alexandra Day, Peter H. Reynolds, and Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney; starred reviews for new fiction from Katherine Sturtevant and Jean-Claude Mourlevat; comics from Lark Pien and Holly Black; and books to invigorate minds and imaginations.
- Fiction Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 November 2, 2009Reviewed this week, new books by T.C. Boyle, Douglas Preston, Louise Erdrich, Jack Higgins, Jerome Charyn and Jim Harrison. Plus, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein creates an "athiest with a soul," Katherine McMahon unravels a post-WWI mystery, Wallace Stroby kicks off what looks like a promising new series, and Bill Flanagan chronicles 40 years of rock […]
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