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April 30, 2010

Lighthead

By TERRANCE HAYES
Reviewed by Craig Morgan Teicher

In a new book of poems, the writer dives into his own youth and a nation's troubled history with love and arch wit.

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April 22, 2010

The Publisher

By ALAN BRINKLEY
Reviewed by Barbara Spindel

The creator of Time and Life yearned to stretch beyond words and images and shape the globe.

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April 21, 2010

Summer Hours

Directed by OLIVER ASSAYAS
Reviewed by Steve Futterman

The quiet power of a family drama might resist translation. Read more...

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April 20, 2010

In the Empire of Ice

By GRETEL EHRLICH
Reviewed by Peter Lewis

The celebrated writer on nature sounds a dramatic warning about the future of a fragile ecosystem. Read more...

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April 16, 2010

Caravaggio: Complete Work

Edited by SEBASTIAN SCHUTZE
Reviewed by Robert Messenger

A triumphant new collection brings together the paintings of an artist of great mystery -- and perhaps greater genius. Read more...

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April 13, 2010

The Eastern Stars

By MARK KURLANSKY
Reviewed by David Haglund

How a tiny island nation came to be the world's biggest exporter of big league baseball players. Read more...

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April 12, 2010

Kapitoil

By TEDDY WAYNE
Reviewed by Amy Reiter

A Qatari computer whiz tries to reprogram himself as an American financial genius. Read more...

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April 9, 2010

David Foster Wallace: Becoming Himself

By Kathleen Fitzpatrick

A new book reproduces an extended encounter with an author who fascinated in his art, and his life.

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April 7, 2010

Dreams in a Time of War

By NGŨGĨ WA THIONG'O
Reviewed by Christopher Byrd

The Kenyan novelist's autobiographical sketch is also the story of how the struggle for independence threatened to pull his people apart.

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April 5, 2010

2017

By OLGA SLAVNIKOVA
Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A near-future thriller set in a Russia both familiar and strange. Read more...

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April 2, 2010

New Amerykah, Part II: Return of the Ankh

ERYKAH BADU
Reviewed by Richard Beck

The new record from an innovative songwriter and performer resists the boundaries of song. Read more...

Daybook

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin. 

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When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results. 

Story of My People

Recounting the struggles and eventual dissolution of a family textile business in Prato, Italy, Story of My People is a heartbreaking memoir about the personal impact of globalization.

My Struggle, Book Two

A controversial sensation in Norway, A Man in Love is the second book of six in the series, detailing Knausgaard’s separation from his wife, his move to Stolkholm and the dogged pursuit of a mesmerizing poet.