Sunday Books: coverage for June 5, 2011
June 5, 2011
Book Review: 'Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention' by Manning Marable
This biography makes controversial assertions about the subject's journey of self-discovery near the end of his life and revelations about his early life.
June 5, 2011
Book Review: 'The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture' by David Mamet
The writer targets liberalism but misfires.
June 5, 2011
Book Review: 'To Be Sung Underwater' by Tom McNeal
In this meticulously constructed second novel, the author of 'Goodnight, Nebraska' looks at a midlife that took a wrong turn 27 years earlier.
June 5, 2011
Book review: 'State of Wonder'
In her new novel, Ann Patchett's gives readers almost a feminized version of 'Heart of Darkness,' but without the savagery.
June 5, 2011
Book Review: 'Stan Musial' by George Vecsey
'The Man's' statistics while a St. Louis Cardinal overshadow a rather tame off-the-field life.
June 5, 2011
Not Just For Kids: 'Spoiled' by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan
The life of a daughter of an A-list celebrity is turned upside down by the arrival of her half sister.
June 5, 2011
Paperback writers: Classic Le Carré
A masterclass in gentle spycraft in a reissue of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy."
June 5, 2011
Discoveries: 'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World: A Pedestrian in Paris' by John Baxter
Also Robert Gottlieb's 'Lives and Letters' and Banana Yoshimoto's 'The Lake.'
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