PW Talks with Raj Patel by Robert Avila - 11/16/2009
"We need to shun the idea that the only way we can shape the world is through our consumption choices."
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PW Talks with Joshua Ferris by Shaun Manning - 11/16/2009
"We're always sort of grasping at hope. The answer is always right around the corner, and yet it eludes us."
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Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
This week: stars for Lynne Olson's Citizens of London, Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves, Susan Krauss's The Search for Fulfillment, and David Kynaston's Family Britain: 1951-1957. Plus: Daniel Menaker, Kathleen Rooney, Larry McMurty, Mikhail Chekhov, Ellen Sandbeck, and more.
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Children's Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
In this week's children's book reviews: picture books from Peter McCarty, David McPhail, Sandra Boynton, and Arnold and Adrianne Lobel; fiction from Iain Lawrence, Mike Lupica, James Patterson, and Peter Lerangis; and a round-up of the latest pop-up books to hit the market.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
Reviewed this week, new fiction from Joshua Ferris, T. Jefferson Parker, Stuart Woods, A.L. Kennedy, and Jayne Anne Krentz. Plus, Peter Bognanni chronicles a punk-rock-in-an-Iowa-geodesic-dome adolescence, the aliens arrive in Evan Mandery's smart and funny romp, Bob Morris finds more trouble in the Sunshine State, and Bernard Cornwell delivers another big, bloody epic.
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PW Talks with Jonathan Dee by Marya Spence - 11/09/2009
To the fantastically successful family in Jonathan Dee's The Privileges, failure is foreign, and money is not money. Is this perilous? Perhaps.
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Nonfiction Reviews 11/09/2009
Starred reviews for: Still Life by Melissa Milgrom; Paper Fortunes by Roy C. Smith; Our Times by A.N. Wilson; The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattio; Love & War by John and Stasi Eldredge;
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Children's Book Reviews: 11/9/2009 11/09/2009
This week's children's book reviews include picture books from Petr Horácek, Laurence Anholt, and Colin Bootman; fiction from Ying Chang Compestine, David Almond, and Margaret Mahy; and a round-up of novelty books for young readers.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 11/9/2009 11/09/2009
Reviewed this week, new novels from Peter Carey, Alexander McCall Smith, Katherine Center, John Lescroat, and Lori Lansens. Plus, Lindsey Davis takes on the English civil war, Ann Mah sends an out-of-work journo to Beijing, James Greer plots a clever caper, and John McNally digs into writerly envy.
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Web Exclusive Book Reviews: Week of 11/2/2009 11/02/2009
This week: stars for Michael Psilakis's How to Roast a Lamb, Andrew Smith's Eating History, Peter Nichols's Final Voyage, Rebecca K. O'Connor's Lift, Desmond Morris's Planet Ape, and Sherry Jones's The Sword of Medina. Plus: journalist Amy Goodman, conservationist Lawrence Anthony, actor Robert Englund, ex-J.A.P. Lisa Fineberg Cook, international trade expert Daniel Griswold, 60 Minutes correspondent Byron Pitts, and more.
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Review of Roses by Leila Meacham 11/02/2009 This enthralling stunner, a good old-fashioned read, may herald the overdue return of those delicious doorstop epics from such writers as Barbara Taylor Bradford and Colleen McCullough.More
Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 11/02/2009
Stars for Elif Batuman's The Possessed, Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, Sean Carroll's From Eternity to Here, Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing, Lee Smith's The Strong Horse, and Andrew Friedman's Knives at Dawn.
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Children's Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 11/02/2009
This week's reviews include picture books from Alexandra Day, Peter H. Reynolds, and Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney; starred reviews for new fiction from Katherine Sturtevant and Jean-Claude Mourlevat; comics from Lark Pien and Holly Black; and books to invigorate minds and imaginations.
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Fiction Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 11/02/2009
Reviewed this week, new books by T.C. Boyle, Douglas Preston, Louise Erdrich, Jack Higgins, Jerome Charyn and Jim Harrison. Plus, Rebecca Newberger Goldstein creates an "athiest with a soul," Katherine McMahon unravels a post-WWI mystery, Wallace Stroby kicks off what looks like a promising new series, and Bill Flanagan chronicles 40 years of rock and roll.
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PW Talks with John Rich by Parul Sehgal - 11/02/2009
"Trauma changes the body; it changes behavior and in the social context of poverty and violence, it may be the real thing we have to deal with."
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PW Talks with Leila Meacham by Melissa Mia Hall - 11/02/2009
Leila Meacham makes a grand return after a 20-year absence with Roses, a compelling East Texas saga with echoes of Gone with the Wind.
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Web Exclusive Book Reviews: 10/26/2009 10/26/2009
The return of photographer Andrew Zuckerman and documentarian Ken Burns, TV's Dogtown in print, a personal story of integrating Ole Miss, a rower's education, an oral history of Second City, and a fine appreciation of Strunk & White's Elements of Style. Plus: the year's best food writing, a couple new volumes on cheese, and more.
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