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Philippe Sands Considers A Legacy Of 'Torture'

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:27:07 GMT

In his 2008 book, Torture Team, British Lawyer Philippe Sands accuses the Bush administration of condoning harsh interrogation techniques.

Tech thriller delivers thrills

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:04:36 GMT

Daemon is the latest title by author Daniel Suarez. According to USA Today:

An Epic Tale Of Opium And Empire

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:01:00 GMT

In Sea of Poppies, a British trading ship carrying an eclectic group of passengers sets sail on the eve of the First Opium War. The novel, the sixth from Amitav Ghosh, was shortlisted for the 2008 Booker Prize.

'Go, Tell Michelle': Wisdom For The Future First Lady

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:14:00 GMT

In a new book called Go, Tell Michelle: African American Women Write to the New First Lady, women published words of wisdom for Michelle Obama. The idea was to give the incoming first lady support, adulation and love for when she gets to the White House.

Things I've Been Silent About: Memories

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:01:31 GMT

Such is the latest title by Azar Nafisi. According to USA Today,

Fahrenheit 451: The Future Is Now

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:46:31 GMT

I recently watched the film version of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451. I had resisted seeing it � or reading the

Hemingway archives open to scholars

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:59:24 GMT

Reuters reports that Cuba has digitized a number of works authored by Ernest Hemingway.

Laura Bush�s memoir will go to Scribner

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:24 GMT

Publishers aren�t that interested in her husband, but Laura Bush has been pushing her idea of a memoir for a

Child's Autism Helps Author Write Mnemonic Book

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:33:00 GMT

British journalist Christopher Stevens talks about his new book, Thirty Days Has September: Cool Way to Remember Stuff. Stevens says the book is aimed primarily at children and was based on his experience teaching his autistic son.

Why 'Animals Make Us Human'

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:00:00 GMT

Why you should adopt a black cat instead of an orange one? Do dogs need a pack leader or a poppa? And how do you to draw blood from an antelope without terrifying it? These are some of the questions animal advocate Temple Grandin answers in her new book.

Lingering Love And Loss In 'Lark & Termite'

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 17:13:00 GMT

Maureen Corrigan reviews Jayne Anne Phillips' Lark & Termite, a novel that weaves together the story of an American soldier fighting (and dying) in Korea in 1950, with that of his family struggling with their loss nine years later.

Donald Westlake: Hard-Boiled To The End

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:40:00 GMT

The award-winning mystery writer died from a heart attack on Dec. 31 at the age of 75. Westlake wrote more than 100 novels and numerous screenplays, including the Academy Award-nominated screenplay for The Grifters.

Sontag On Sontag: Journals Record A Writer's Birth

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:29:43 GMT

In the first installment of her journals, Susan Sontag exhibits the fierce critical intelligence that distinguishes her work — along with a vulnerability that may surprise. The result is an absorbing chronicle of emotional and intellectual self-discovery.

Amid Slumping Sales, Borders Replaces CEO

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:39:00 GMT

With holiday sales down almost 12 percent, Borders has replaced its CEO and it appears the bookseller might be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange. The company has named Ron Marshall as its new CEO; he replaces George Jones.

Novel Regards Slave Trade In Reverse

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:38:00 GMT

In British writer Bernardine Evaristo's new novel, Blonde Roots, African slave traders raid Europe. Evaristo wields language and messes with history and geography with the gusto of someone having a great time with a great subject.

'Voluntary Madness' Details Life In 'Loony Bin'

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:26:00 GMT

Norah Vincent spent 18 months living disguised as a man. The experience led to deep depression and a stay at a mental institution. Once she left, Vincent decided to check back into institutions across the country. She tells her story in Voluntary Madness.

A Childhood Tragedy, Seen From The 'Periphery'

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 18:28:23 GMT

Fate is the protagonist in Patricia Ferguson's masterful Peripheral Vision, which examines the effects one unhappy accident has on a constellation of characters.

J.D. Salinger turns 90

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:33:45 GMT

There is an interesting article on J.D. Salinger and his 90th birthday.

Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:18:45 GMT

Such is the latest title by Mikal Gilmore. For all you �60s fans, here is the product description:

Temple Grandin On 'The Best Life For Animals'

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:18:00 GMT

In her new book, Animals Make Us Human, Temple Grandin examines common notions of animal happiness and concludes that dogs, cats, horses, cows and zoo animals — among other creatures — possess an emotional system akin to that of humans.

Personal War Journal Becomes Gripping Memoir

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 14:15:00 GMT

In 2005, Dana Canedy's fiance — Charles King — was deployed to Iraq. King started writing a journal to their infant son, in case he didn't make it home. After King lost his life in a roadside bomb attack, Canedy turned King's 200-page journal into a memoir, called A Journal for Jordan.

New from David Lozell Martin

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 11:56:55 GMT

David Lozell Martin has written a book titled �Losing Everything.� The story involves, well, something close to that.

The Wovel: Literary Alternative To Browsing Blogs

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:35:00 GMT

A Wovel is an on-line novel written serially, with readers deciding the turns of the plot. Publisher Underland Press is hoping people who already do most of their reading surfing the web will return each week to read the next installment.

Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

THE HAPPY ENDING SERIES @ JOE’S PUB For years, the Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, which mandates that writers and musicians “take one public risk” (such as revealing their PIN numbers or playing a tricky cover song), took place at a bar in Chinatown. It is moving to Joe’s Pub . . .

Books: "Paracelsus"

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

In the first major consideration in fifty years of the Renaissance doctor, alchemist, and theologian, Webster draws on nonscientific writings by Paracelsus that have been made widely available only in the past few decades. Born in Sweden in 1493, a quarter century before the German Reformation, Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombast . . .

Books: "Girl Meets Boy"

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

In Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Iphis is brought up as a boy and, on the eve of her wedding to another girl, saved from disaster when an obliging goddess agrees to change her gender. Such obvious transformation is absent from Smith’s modern retelling, which is narrated in alternating chapters by Midge and . . .

Books: "Tinkers"

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

This compact, adamantine début dips in and out of the consciousness of a New England patriarch named George Washington Crosby as he lies dying on a hospital bed in his living room, “right where they put the dining room table, fitted with its two extra leaves for holiday dinners.” The . . .

Books: "Reading Dance"

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

This sweeping anthology of dance writing weighs in at more than thirteen hundred pages. In his introduction, Gottlieb, the editor of myriad books on dance and the former editor of this magazine, acknowledges that no anthology is ideal. This one has a strong tilt toward ballet (and further toward Balanchine . . .

Civil Rights Poets Wrote Prologue For Change

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:15:00 GMT

Langston Hughes and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper are prominent African-American poets who wrote about civil rights and whose work still resonates today. Host Liane Hansen speaks with poet E. Ethelbert Miller about Harper's and Hughes' work and what it means in this time of change in America.

What We Don't Know About Sherman's March

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:16:00 GMT

Author Noah Andre Trudeau's book, Southern Storm, is about Sherman's March and what actually happened during this famous Civil War event.

�Miles From Nowhere�

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:01:34 GMT

Such is the latest title by Nami Mun.

Literary Calendar

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

7 P.M. Steven Johnson discusses and signs The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America at Politics and Prose Bookstore, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW, 202-364-1919. He will also speak on Tuesday, Jan. 6, at 6:30 p.m. at Borders Books-Tysons, 8027 Leesburg Pike,...

Letters

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Ralph Peters is a prolific writer with a pen for stinging commentary and always enjoyable to read, but in his review of Steve Fainaru's Big Boy Rules: America's Mercenaries Fighting in Iraq (Book World, Dec. 21) Peters's hyperbole ignores at least one fact.

Washington Area Bestsellers

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Rankings reflect sales for the week ended Dec. 28, 2008.

Sister Act

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I SEE YOU EVERYWHERE By Julia Glass

The Other Suicide Bombers

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

DANGER'S HOUR The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her, By Maxwell Taylor Kennedy

Drama in the skies, a heroic botanist and green groups gone bad.

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

With the threats of gamma-ray bursts, black holes, alien attacks, rogue asteroids and the inevitable death of our sun, there's plenty to keep a paranoid stargazer awake at night.

Scottish Mischief

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

KIERON SMITH, BOY By James Kelman

Picture-perfect poetry.

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

This substantial compendium has all the hallmarks of a classic: satisfyingly fat (175 pages), beautifully illustrated (by 13 different artists), thick paper, spacious lay-outs, sturdy binding, plus three separate indexes and a table of contents.

Poet's Choice

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Pretty much any spiritual practice, whether religious in the formal sense (Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, etc.) or purely secular (counting breaths, a centering prayer), finds divinity in contemplation.

The Great Islamic Rabbi

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

MAIMONIDES The Life and World of One of Civilization's Greatest Minds By Joel L. Kraemer

That Sinking Feeling

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

THE GREAT INFLATION AND ITS AFTERMATH The Past and Future of American Affluence By Robert J. Samuelson | THE RETURN OF DEPRESSION ECONOMICS AND THE CRISIS OF 2008 By Paul Krugman

Histories with Sweep

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

Crave the really big picture? Four books offer visions and revisions of the past.

Do Unto Others

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

FORGOTTEN PATRIOTS The Untold Story of American Prisoners During the Revolutionary War By Edwin G. Burrows | MY PRIVATE WAR Liberated Body, Captive Mind: A World War II POW's Journey By Norman Bussel | OPERATION THUNDERHEAD The True Story of Vietnam's Final POW Rescue Mission -- and the Last Navy SEAL Killed in Country By Kevin Dockery

Alternative Living

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

THE SCHOOL ON HEART'S CONTENT ROAD By Carolyn Chute

A Small-Town Figure

Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:00:00 GMT

THE LITTLE GIANT OF ABERDEEN COUNTY By Tiffany Baker