100
Notable Books of 2014
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
The year's
notable fiction, poetry and nonfiction, selected by the editors of The New York
Times Book Review.
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Jan
Morris: By the Book
The author,
most recently, of "Ciao, Carpaccio!" recently found in her old copy
of "Anna Karenina," in an "evidently intoxicated scrawl,"
the inscription "THIS IS THE BETS BOOK I HAVE EVER READ."
'Isabella:
The Warrior Queen'
By KIRSTIN DOWNEY
Reviewed by KATHRYN HARRISON
A new
biography of Isabella of Castile, the driving force of 15th-century Spanish -
and therefore European - politics.
'Jerry
Lee Lewis: His Own Story'
By RICK BRAGG
Reviewed by STEPHEN KING
Stephen King
reviews Rick Bragg's new book about the rock 'n' roll pioneer Jerry Lee Lewis.
'Hope:
Entertainer of the Century'
By RICHARD ZOGLIN
Reviewed by BRUCE JAY FRIEDMAN
Bruce Jay
Friedman reviews an exhaustively researched biography of the comedian Bob Hope.
'Group
f.64'
By MARY STREET ALINDER
Reviewed by ANNA ALTMAN
A group
portrait of American photographers, including Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and
Imogen Cunningham.
'Wagstaff:
Before and After Mapplethorpe'
By PHILIP GEFTER
Reviewed by DEBORAH SOLOMON
A biography
of the photographer Sam Wagstaff.
'Wayfaring
Strangers' and 'Ralph Peer and the Making of Popular Roots Music'
By RONALD RADOSH
Two essential
new books for lovers of American roots music.
'The
Image of the Black in Western Art'
Reviewed by CLAUDIA
RANKINE
Claudia
Rankine reviews the latest and perhaps last volume in Dominique de Menil's
monumental archival project.
'Respect:
The Life of Aretha Franklin'
By DAVID RITZ
Reviewed by ELSA DIXLER
An account of
the career and personal life of Aretha Franklin.
Travel
By ANDREW McCARTHY
Andrew
McCarthy on the season's travel books, including David Greene's "Midnight
in Siberia," about a journey along the almost 6,000-mile Trans-Siberian
Railway.
Photography
By LUC SANTE
"Vivian
Maier: A Photographer Found," "Henri Cartier-Bresson: Here and
Now," and more.
Pop
Music
By JAMES PARKER
New books by
Joe Perry, George Clinton, Viv Albertine, Billy Idol and other music stars.
Humor
By BRUCE HANDY
New books by
Bob Odenkirk, Mallory Ortberg and others.
Cooking
By MAX WATMAN
New cookbooks
include Cal Peternell's "Twelve Recipes," Mark Bittman's "How to
Cook Everything Fast" and more.
Gardening
By DOMINIQUE BROWNING
New gardening
books include Katrina Blair's "Wild Wisdom of Weeds."
Anthologies
By EVAN HUGHES
Collections
of writing from The New Republic, The Baffler, The Believer and n+1.
Hollywood
By LISA SCHWARZBAUM
Memoirs by
Roger Moore, Sophia Loren and Anjelica Huston are among the season's books
about movies.
'Mr.
Hockey: My Story'
By GORDIE HOWE
Reviewed by JOHN BRANCH
A new memoir
by the 86-year-old Gordie Howe, one of the most prolific scorers in hockey
history.
'So
We Read On' and 'Bohemians, Bootleggers, Flappers, and Swells'
By DAPHNE MERKIN
New books
about "The Great Gatsby" and Vanity Fair offer a chance for renewed
consideration of the Jazz Age.
'By
the Book: Stories and Pictures'
By DIANE SCHOEMPERLEN
Reviewed by MARK SARVAS
Diane
Schoemperlen quilts seven stories out of sources like an 1854 text on natural
phenomena and a 1946 Ontario public-school geography textbook.
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