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Reviews of business, biography, current events, self-help, memoir, and lifestyle books.
- Art Books in a Booming Art Market
by Charles Dee Mitchell - 09/08/2008
When discussion of the market for contemporary art makes its way into the popular press, it often centers on how immune the market seems to be to broader financial trends. Last fall, as the latest round of art auctions concluded, Carol Vogel stated it plainly in the New York Times: “Never mind the gyrations on Wall Street or the subprime mortgage and equity crisis.
More - Joshua Beckman and Matthew Zapruder
by Craig Morgan Teicher - 09/08/2008
Joshua Beckman, 36, and Matthew Zapruder, 40, met in 1998 when Beckman passed through Amherst, Mass., on a tour for his debut poetry collection, Things Are Happening. Zapruder was an M.F.A. student at the University of Amherst and went to see Beckman's reading: “I was blown away,” says Zapruder.
More - Nonfiction Reviews
09/08/2008
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery Siddharth Kara . Columbia Univ. , $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-0-231-13960-1 Kara, a former investment banker and executive, uses theoretical economics and business analysis to propose measures that could eradicate sex trafficking by undermining the profitability of the illegal activities associated with the crime.
More - Children's Book Reviews
09/08/2008
Picture Books Dinosaur vs. Bedtime Bob Shea . Hyperion , $15.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-4231-1335-5 Shea (New Socks) makes a hilarious commentator as his hero, a small red dinosaur, elevates everyday encounters into a series of matches worthy of the WWF. “Dinosaur versus... a bowl of spaghetti!” announces Shea and, with a trio of bold typographic roars (and two chomps), the bowl is vanq...
More - Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 9/01/2008
09/01/2008
In this week's Web Reviews: a fair, sharp-eyed critique of U.S. policy abroad, a smart and angry look at U.S. racism, an examination of the developmental disparity between the U.S. and Latin America, more bad news in the post-Katrina bayous, and the irrational processes of the human mind that may lead the world to ruin. Plus: perfect gifts for new parents, eccentric gourmands and Repo Man fanatics!
More - Nonfiction Reviews
09/01/2008
Forecast: The Consequences of Climate Change, from the Amazon to the Arctic, from Darfur to Napa Valley Stephan Faris . Holt , $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8779-6 The latest communiqué from the emerging genre of traveling the world in the footsteps of climate change is an intelligent, nuanced report on the complex relationships between increasingly unstable weather patterns and politics, ...
More - Children's Book Reviews
09/01/2008
Picture Books Welcome to the Zoo Alison Jay . Dial , $16.99 (32p) ISBN 978-0-8037-3177-6 Working in the burnished, crackle-varnished surfaces that are her signature, Jay (1-2-3: A Child's First Counting Book) takes the idea of a cageless zoo to the extreme, imagining humans and animals mingling with all the privileged coolness of habitués of a five-star resort.
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