Sunday Books: coverage for July 24, 2011
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Leo McCloskey and Randall Grahm view wine production from different sides of the vine. Their stories reveal how modern wine is really made and sold.
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From performance artists to Francis Bacon, Maggie Nelson looks at art’s cruel edge, adding contradictory thinkers and counter-examples along the way. It is a vibrant and engaged work.
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Violence is the focus of middle-class suburbanites who foster revolution.
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Popes, antipopes, power struggles, the Borgias, Medicis and more: Britain’s John Julius Norwich tackles 2,000 years of the papacy in his sweeping history.
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It’s a page-turning mystery — narrated by a woman increasingly afflicted by Alzheimer’s disease.
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What happens when your teen daughter attracts an online predator? Despite some small flaws, Sarah Darer Littman’s young adult novel is a bold investigation of a potentially lethal issue.
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Also reviewed: ’12 Who Don’t Agree’ by Valery Panyushkin and ‘My Green Manifesto’ by David Gessner.
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People ignore a bleak world by hiding in their memories in Dan Simmons’ novel ‘Flashback.’ Plus: Lama Surya Das wants us to make peace with time.
