Sunday Books: coverage for August 22, 2010
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Charles Yu’s ‘How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe’ offers a vision of time travel that’s engaging and unexpectedly spiritual.
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In this debut novel, small-town lives become a Cornell shadow box of secrets and healing.
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Reviewed: ‘Becoming Animal’ by David Abram; ‘Mr. Rosenblum Dreams in English’ by Natasha Solomons; ‘Fixing Freddie’ by Paula Munier
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The volume of previously uncollected writings is a prism offering many looks into the life and mind of the public intellectual.
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The author explores the ‘underbelly of archaeology’ and asks the right questions.
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It may be late August, but do you still wish there was time to visit Italy this summer?
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Boy meets girl in a sharp-edged novel set during the Vietnam War but stripped of the conventional war-story veneer.
