In Brief - The Barnes & Noble Review

In Brief

Displaying articles for: December 2011

Labels:

CULTURAL HISTORY

December 30, 2011

Cruelty & Laughter

By SIMON DICKIE

Reviewed by Cameron Martin

Surveying an impolite world that talked much about politeness.

Labels:

HISTORY

December 20, 2011

Grant's Final Victory

By CHARLES BRACELEN FLOOD

Reviewed by Chuck Leddy

An examination of the once-mighty general's tumultuous last year, 1884-85.

Labels:

HUMAN NATURE

December 20, 2011

Losing It

By WILLIAM IAN MILLER

Reviewed by Peter Lewis

The history of old age.

Labels:

HISTORY

December 16, 2011

Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid that Sparked the Civil War

By TONY HOROWITZ

Reviewed by Meredith Hindley

A doomed plan with a momentous legacy.

Labels:

FOOD

December 12, 2011

All About Roasting: A New Approach to a Classic Art

By MOLLY STEVENS

Reviewed by Heller McAlpin

A savory guide to mastery of the oven.

Labels:

CRIME

December 9, 2011

Outlaws Inc.

By MATT POTTER

Reviewed by Chuck Leddy

How the world's most dangerous smugglers supply the black market.

Labels:

FOOD

December 5, 2011

Bocca

By JACOB KENEDY

Reviewed by Heller McAlpin

A new vision of Italian cooking built on some extraordinary ingredients.

Labels:

YOUNG READERS

December 2, 2011

The Brixton Brothers Series

By MAC BARNETT, with illustrations by ADAM REX

Reviewed by Amy Benfer

An homage to the Hardy Boys that delivers thrills and laughs.

Daybook

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Previously in Daybook

In the Margin

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

Earlier Posts

The Long List

Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now

The Philadelphia Chromosome

Expounding the well-known link between genetics and cancer, this scientific history recounts the initial discovery of a gene mutation that eventually led to enormous breakthroughs in the fight against leukemia.

She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret. A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.