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Displaying articles for: October 2009

November 2, 2009

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose

By LEE ALAN DUGATKIN
Reviewed by Tess Taylor

How a seven-foot skeleton found its way from Monticello to a French naturalist's collection -- and what it told Europe about America. Read more...

November 2, 2009

Return to the Hundred Acre Wood

By DAVID BENEDICTUS
Reviewed by Mark T. Martin

Christopher Robin's gentle coterie makes an encore appearance in this revisitation of A. A. Milne's beloved characters. Read more...

October 30, 2009

Z.

Directed by COSTA-GRAVAS
Reviewed by Christopher Byrd

A thriller as effective in its stylish satire as it is transparent in its political sympathies. Read more...

October 26, 2009

The New Black

By DARIAN LEADER
Reviewed by Craig Morgan Teicher

A psychoanalyst's call to think of "depression" as a factor of experience -- not illness. Read more...

October 21, 2009

Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife

By FRANCINE PROSE
Reviewed by Anne Trubek

Looking past the icon to find the writer. Read more...

October 20, 2009

Save the Deli

By DAVID SAX
Reviewed by Barbara Spindel

Will the pastrami on rye go the way of the dodo? Read more...

October 20, 2009

Heidegger and a Hippo Walk Through Those Pearly Gates

By THOMAS CATHCART and DANIEL KLEIN
Reviewed by Heller McAlpin

The authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar return with some deadly jesting. Read more...

October 20, 2009

Starting Point: 1979-1996

By HAYAO MIYAZAKI
Reviewed by Paul Di Filippo

A new collection of essays by and interviews with famed anime creator Hayao Miyazaki. Read more...

October 19, 2009

A Fine Romance

By DAVID LEHMAN
Reviewed by Dick Adler

A case for the distinctively Jewish aspect of the American Songbook. Read more...

October 16, 2009

Masterpiece Comics

By R. SIKORYAK
Reviewed by Douglas Wolk

A hilarious -- and literarily astute -- mashup of literary monuments with the styles of cartoonists ranging from Windsor McKay to Charles Schulz. Read more...

October 9, 2009

Civil War Wives

By CAROL BERKIN
Reviewed by Tess Taylor

A southern abolitionist, a general's spouse, and the first lady of the Confederacy. Read more...

October 9, 2009

The Book Shopper

By MURRAY BROWNE
Review by Thomas DePietro

A life among the leaves. Read more...

October 5, 2009

My Guilty Pleasure

SALLY SHAPIRO
Reviewed by Richard Beck

The followup disc from the pop chanteuse of Disco Romance returns to dance clubs past. Read more...

October 5, 2009

Boilerplate: History's Mechanical Marvel

By PAUL GUINAN and ANINA BENNET
Reviewed by Jeff VanderMeer

An illustrated history of the feats of an armor-plated hero. Read more...

October 1, 2009

Risk

By COLIN HARRISON
Reviewed by Dick Adler

A professionally suspicious married couple get caught up in the mysterious death of a rich woman's son. Read more...

Daybook

June 20: Today is World Refugee Day, as designated by the United Nations in 2001. According to the renowned sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, the modern refugee problem should not be attributed to wars and despots but to a civilization that…

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In the Margin

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
Big Brother

This emotionally taut novel of family dynamics and the limits of sacrifice presents a woman on the verge of giving up everything -- including her marriage -- to help her impassive brother fight his obesity.

Note to Self

A newly fired 20-something becomes an assistant to a filmmaker chronicling people’s failed ambitions in Alina Simone's sharp meditation on internet addiction, celebrity worship, and digital narcissism. 

The New York Review Abroad

This new collection of some of the best of overseas reportage includes articles from Joan Didion, Tim Judah and Susan Sontag, with topics ranging from impromptu theater in conflict-ridden Sarajevo to a gravediggers’ strike in Liverpool.