Sunday books: coverage for August 8, 2010.
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A uniquely Southern California take on the African American experience uncovers deep insights.
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The account of a young man imprisoned for protesting after the 2009 Iran election is not without flaws but cannot be ignored.
- 3
Dave Robicheaux treads familiar ground, but about those unexpected plot twists...
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A British science writer presents intellectual history of the upending, in the 1920s, of classical, Newtonian physics.
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‘The Grand Design’, ‘Once Before Time’ and ‘Chasing the Sun’
- 6
Memory — whether cultural or biological or personal — is the driving force of this suite of stories.
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This thriller has murder and an ode to marijuana, but its effect is rarely mellow. Here is a wickedly funny if not entirely successful or consistent blast of a book.
- 8
Also: ‘Notes From the Night’ by Taylor Plimpton; ‘The Typist’ by Michael Knight
- 9
The literary tradition of detective duos continues in George Mann’s ‘The Osiris Ritual.’
