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50-Jan-Feb-2011

By jonThu, 12/09/2010 - 12:11

Our Jan/Feb 2011 issue has just been printed.

Contents:

  • Life Stages, vol. 1: Coming of Age
  • Theodore Dresier, Book by Book
  • Hollywood: Books on Making Movies
  • Awards, Book Group, more
  • Comprehensive New Books Guide: Almost 50 New Books Reviewed!

Buy it now!


Book Author Rating

Aftershock: The Next Economy and America's Future

 		Robert B. Reich two-and-half-stars

At Home: A Short History of Private Life

 		Bill Bryson three-and-half-stars

Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms,and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories

 		Simon Winchester three-and-half-stars

Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 1

 		Mark Twain four-stars

Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

 		Danielle Evans four-stars

Bound: A Novel

 		Antonya Nelson three-and-half-stars

By Nightfall: A Novel

 		Michael Cunningham three-and-half-stars

Cleopatra: A Life

 		Stacy Schiff four-stars

Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter: A Novel

 		Tom Franklin four-stars

Djibouti: A Novel

 		Elmore Leonard three-and-half-stars

Driving on the Rim

 		Thomas McGuane four-stars

Fall of Giants

 		Ken Follett three-stars

Foreign Bodies

 		Cynthia Ozick three-stars

Full Dark, No Stars

 		Stephen King four-stars

Grant Wood: A Life

 		R. Tripp Evans three-and-half-stars

Great House: A Novel

 		Nicole Krauss four-stars

Half a Life

 		Darin Strauss four-stars

How to Read the Air

 		Dinaw Mengestu three-and-half-stars

Luka and the Fire of Life: A Novel

 		Salman Rushdie three-stars

Moonlight Mile

 		Dennis Lehane four-stars

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

 		Antonia Fraser four-stars

Nemesis

 		Philip Roth three-stars

Our Tragic Universe

 		Scarlett Thomas two-and-half-stars

Overhaul: An Insider's Account of the Obama Administration's Emergency Rescue of the Auto Industry

 		Steven Rattner three-stars

Portobello: A Novel

 		Ruth Rendell three-and-half-stars

Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception

 		Charles Seife four-stars

Redemption in Indigo: a novel

 		Karen Lord four-stars

Sunset Park: A Novel

 		Paul Auster three-and-half-stars

The Confession: A Novel

 		John Grisham three-stars

The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings

 		James Baldwin three-and-half-stars

The Elephant's Journey

 		José Saramago four-stars

The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

 		Siddhartha Mukherjee four-stars

The Finkler Question

 		Howard Jacobson four-stars

The Grace of Silence: A Memoir

 		Michele Norris four-stars

The Gun

 		C. J. Chivers three-and-half-stars

The Half-Made World

 		Felix Gilman four-stars

The Lady Matador's Hotel: A Novel

 		Cristina Garcia three-stars

The Mind's Eye

 		Oliver Sacks four-stars

The Reversal

 		Michael Connelly four-stars

The Wake of Forgiveness

 		Bruce Machart four-stars

The Weekend: A Novel

 		Bernhard Schlink three-stars

To the End of the Land

 		David Grossman four-stars

Travels in Siberia

 		Ian Frazier four-stars

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

 		Laura Hillenbrand four-stars

Washington: A Life

 		Ron Chernow four-stars

Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation

 		Steven Johnson three-and-half-stars

World and Town

 		Gish Jen four-stars