Saturday, September 13, 2014

New York Times - Book Review

'Thirteen Days in September'

By LAWRENCE WRIGHT
Reviewed by JOE KLEIN
Lawrence Wright offers a minute-by-minute account of the 1978 Camp David peace talks between Israel and Egypt.


Also in the Book Review

Henry Kissinger'World Order'

By HENRY KISSINGER
Reviewed by JOHN MICKLETHWAIT
Henry Kissinger's "World Order" brings together history, geography and modern politics in considering how to balance the competing desires of nations.
Francis Fukuyama

'Political Order and Political Decay'

By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
Reviewed by SHERI BERMAN
Francis Fukuyama chronicles international political history to define liberal democracy and discover how and why it develops.

Sara ParetskySara Paretsky: By the Book

The author of the V. I. Warshawski novels, most recently "Critical Mass," was hugely influenced by "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man": "I felt as though I'd fallen into words and wanted to drown in them."
·         By the Book: Archive

'The Monogram Murders'

By SOPHIE HANNAH
Reviewed by ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
Hercule Poirot reappears, courtesy of Sophie Hannah, years after solving his "last case."

'The Children Act'

By IAN MCEWAN
Reviewed by DEBORAH FRIEDELL
In this Ian McEwan novel, a judge must decide the case of a teenage Jehovah's Witness who refuses treatment for leukemia.

'De Potter's Grand Tour'

By JOANNA SCOTT
Reviewed by JOHN VERNON
An antiquities collector disappears off the coast of Greece in 1905, and his wife discovers that his life was not what it seemed.

Tony Earley'Mr. Tall'

By TONY EARLEY
Reviewed by JESS WALTER
Tony Earley's stories include a skunk ape, a talking dog and the sometimes surprising, sometimes lonely lives of ordinary people.


'Agent Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA'

By MORTEN STORM with PAUL CRUICKSHANK and TIM LISTER.
Reviewed by SCOTT SHANE
A whistle-blower describes his path from biker-gang leader to Muslim activist to spy for three Western intelligence agencies.

'Station Eleven'

By EMILY ST. JOHN MANDEL
Reviewed by SIGRID NUNEZ
After a pandemic kills most of the human race, a traveling theater company roams around, searching for an audience.

'Acceptance'

By JEFF VANDERMEER
Reviewed by SCOTT HUTCHINS
In a trilogy's conclusion, the mysterious ecosystem known as Area X yields more of its secrets.
Coins from Henry VIII's warship the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545.

'War and Gold'

By KWASI KWARTENG
Reviewed by DANIEL W. DREZNER

A historian examines the rise of the gold standard and the economies that have embraced and abandoned it.

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