Sunday, October 05, 2014

The New York Times October 3, 2014 Books Update



Hilary Mantel

'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher'

The stories in Hilary Mantel's new collection are designed to frighten readers and make them laugh.

Also in the Book Review
James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson: By the Book

The author, most recently, of "Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief" says that coming of age in Minnesota in the '50s, he saw the South as "a mysterious, almost foreign land."

Derek Boogaard as a youth in Canada. 'Boy on Ice'

Derek Boogaard gave everything he had to a sport that ultimately destroyed his life.
Colm Toibin

'Nora Webster'

A woman struggles toward independence after her husband's unexpected death in Colm Toibin's novel.

'Lila'

A young woman with a past of hardship and suffering makes a new start in Gilead, Iowa.
Jean Jennings Bartik, left, and Frances Bilas Spence, two of the women who programmed Eniac.

'The Innovators'

A history of the digital age, and of the collaborators and lone tinkerers who helped usher it in.

Charles Blow, in red shirt, at age 5 or 6 with his brothers, circa 1975. 'Fire Shut Up in My Bones'

In this memoir, the Times columnist Charles M. Blow describes how he surmounted his rage at childhood mistreatment.

'The Zone of Interest'

Auschwitz serves as the backdrop to Martin Amis's novel of intimacy and moral collapse.
Lydia Burkhalter's collection of gray sweatshirts.

'Women in Clothes'

More than 600 women respond to a survey about how they present themselves.
Elsa Schiaparelli, left, in 1935, and Coco Chanel in 1929.

In Their Fashion

Biographies of Coco Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli highlight their similarities and their differences.

Betty Halbreich 'I'll Drink To That'

A report on a career of advising Bergdorf Goodman's clients.

'Flirting With French'

Can you learn a new language and culture in middle age?
Jeffery Trzeciak, 3, gets his polio vaccine in New Kensington, Pa., 1957.

'On Immunity'

Eula Biss examines the myth and metaphor surrounding immunization, as well as her personal choices as a mother.

'The Impulse Society'

What happens when instant gratification becomes the guiding force in our social, political and economic lives?
The auction of a baby, from a slave narrative published in 1849.

'The Half Has Never Been Told'

A historian argues that the slave states were not a world apart but were crucial to American development.

'Lovely, Dark, Deep'

Thirteen stories explore the realities of advancing age and vitality on the decline.

Crime

Dirty Secrets

Archer Mayor's "Proof Positive" is about the death of a reclusive hoarder, a photojournalist who had suffered a brain injury in Vietnam.

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