'The
Whites'
By RICHARD PRICE
writing as HARRY BRANDT
Reviewed by MICHAEL CONNELLY
Richard
Price's new novel, written under a pseudonym, is about a New York detective and
an unsolved case that haunts him.
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Nora
Roberts: By the Book
The romance
novelist and, writing as J. D. Robb, the author, most recently, of
"Obsession in Death," thinks all world leaders should be required to
read "Catch-22," and "then give a book report to prove they
understood it."
'The
Patient Will See You Now'
By ERIC TOPOL
Reviewed by SANDEEP JAUHAR
Smartphones
will empower patients to take charge of their health care, a cardiologist
argues.
'The
B Side'
By BEN YAGODA
Reviewed by MICHAEL FEINSTEIN
A social
history of the Great American Songbook era.
'Believer:
My Forty Years in Politics'
By DAVID AXELROD
Reviewed by DAVID GERGEN
A memoir by
David Axelrod, Obama's strategist and political adviser.
'A
Spool of Blue Thread'
By ANNE TYLER
Reviewed by REBECCA P. SINKLER
The
characters in Anne Tyler's novel, four generations of them, are drawn to a
commodious house in suburban Baltimore.
'Chasing
the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs'
By JOHANN HARI
Reviewed by SETH MNOOKIN
Johann Hari
surveys the devastation wrought by the decades-long war on drugs.
'The
Jaguar's Children'
By JOHN VAILLANT
Reviewed by AMANDA EYRE WARD
Abandoned by
their smugglers, a group of Mexican immigrants are left trapped and clinging to
life in John Vaillant's novel.
'S
O S'
By AMIRI BARAKA
Reviewed by CLAUDIA RANKINE
This
collection of 50 years of Amiri Baraka's poetry shows the firmness of his
beliefs and the heat of his fury.
'Get
in Trouble'
By KELLY LINK
Reviewed by SCARLETT THOMAS
The stories
in this collection are not realistic, but neither are they fantasy; they focus
on the small stuff of life.
'88
Days To Kandahar: A CIA Diary'
By ROBERT L. GRENIER
Reviewed by ALISSA J. RUBIN
Robert L.
Grenier, a C.I.A. station chief, had a ringside seat for the early days of the
Afghan war.
'Once
Upon a Revolution: An Egyptian Story'
By THANASSIS CAMBANIS
Reviewed by PATRICK COCKBURN
A journalist
investigates the Tahrir Square revolution and the reasons for its disappointing
aftermath.
'Bonita
Avenue'
By PETER BUWALDA
Reviewed by MICHAEL UPCHURCH
Lies and
madness slowly tear a family apart in this first novel.
'A
Bad Character'
By DEEPTI KAPOOR
Reviewed by CATHERINE LACEY
A Delhi woman
embraces desire, social and erotic.
'Munich
Airport'
By GREG BAXTER
Reviewed by J. M. LEDGARD
Far from
home, an American father and son contend with the incomprehensible death of a
loved one.
Crime
Minding
the Kids
By MARILYN STASIO
Laura Lippman's scrappy Baltimore private eye,
Tess
Monaghan, is back on the job in "Hush Hush."
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