Book World
(Barbara Hall)
Madan Vasishta, a professor at Gallaudet, describes his coming-to-America story in “Deaf in DC.”
Book review: Patrick deWitt’s ‘The Sisters Brothers’
(Ron Charles)
Patrick deWitt’s tale of two hired guns during the Gold Rush is weirdly funny, startlingly violent and steeped in sadness.
New in paperback this week
“The Paperbark Shoe” is Goldie Goldbloom’s World War II-era love story.
Review: ‘A Drop of the Hard Stuff’
(Maureen Corrigan)
Lawrence Block’s mastery makes his latest Matthew Scudder story seem to tell itself.
Book World: A melancholic regret
A woman’s disappearance in the Seoul subway causes fissures among her family, in this novel by South Korean writer Kyung-sook Shin.
BOOK WORLD Bestsellers
May 22, 2011
Political Bestsellers — May 22, 2011
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David Grann reviews Mitchell Zuckoff’s ‘Lost in Shangri-La’
Michael Zuckoff tells the harrowing tale of Americans downed in primitive Dutch New Guinea.
Yardley reviews ‘Saints and Sinner’
Edna O’Brien’s new collection of stories provides a trustworthy map of Ireland.
Review: ‘The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt’
Toby Wilkinson takes readers from Egypt’s pre-history to the suicide of Cleopatra, in an immensely engaging work.
Review: ‘Intern Nation’
Ross Perlin exposes the ills of unpaid internship programs and suggests ways to correct the problems.
Demetri Martin’s ‘This Is a Book’
Comedian Demetri Martin mines the very nomenclature of things for askew humor, joyfully toying with the meanings and associations and sounds of words.
Review: ‘Hearts Touched by Fire’
Modern Library publishes collection of first-person accounts from Civil War generals.
Review: ‘The Hippocratic Myth’
M. Gregg Bloche explores the pressures doctors are under to compromise their promise to heal.
Review: ‘To End All Wars’
Adam Hochschild takes the measure of Britons’ sometimes tortured loyalties during WW I.
Our man in Nazi Germany
Erik Larson tells the tale of an American family in Berlin in 1933 in “In the Garden of Beasts.”
Review: James Gleick’s “The Information”
Gleick takes readers on a journey through the development of our understanding of information.
Tracing a musical uprising
Dorian Lynskey writes about the history of protest songs in “33 Revolutions Per Minute.”
Ron Charles
Book review: Patrick deWitt’s ‘The Sisters Brothers’
Patrick deWitt’s tale of two hired guns during the Gold Rush is weirdly funny, startlingly violent and steeped in sadness.
Ron Charles
‘The Coffins of Little Hope,’ reviewed by Ron Charles
Timothy Schaffert’s charming novel makes the mania surrounding child abductions the subject of this quirky tale.
Ron Charles
A matter of ‘Faith’
A sister reviews the family history behind the accusation that her priest brother is a child molester in Jennifer Haigh’s smart, suspenseful novel.
Michael Dirda
Book World: Postmark of a friendship
Michael Dirda reviews ‘What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell,’ edited by Suzanne Marrs.
Michael Dirda
‘Correspondence: An Adventure in Letters’
N. John Hall creates a fictional collection of letters by 19th-century English writers corresponding with a bookseller.
Michael Dirda
The art of rhetoric
Ward Farnsworth, a professor of law at Boston University, demonstrates in his witty handbook that rhetorical techniques are the organizing principles behind vivid writing and speech.
Yardley reviews ‘Saints and Sinner’
Edna O’Brien’s new collection of stories provides a trustworthy map of Ireland.
Jonathan Yardley
Review: ‘To End All Wars’
Adam Hochschild takes the measure of Britons’ sometimes tortured loyalties during WW I.
Jonathan Yardley
“In the Basement of the Ivory Tower” gets a failing grade
Professor X’s indictment of higher ed suffers from too much self-indulgence.
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