Complete book coverage for Dec. 20, 2009
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What does St. Nick eat? Where does he live? What does he wear? The most popular subgenre in holiday books for children concerns the details of Santa’s life.
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Our relationship to the written word changes and evolves - but it doesn’t go away.
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The real battle was waged with the Internet.
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Kindle is no comfort, and Barnes & Noble-type bookstores are more barn than noble. There’s a lot to be said for 20th century ways.
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A playful, Steampunk-inspired imagining of the world’s first robot.
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This box set shines the spotlight on literature in the last half of the 20th century.
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In one writer’s life, current events float in and out of reach, and she wonders whether she should do something about the issue of war.
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An era of fear and uncertainty has helped fuel a sex-and-death wave in pop culture.
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Plus: ‘Invisible: A Memoir’ by Hugues de Montalembert, and ‘The Way of the World’ by Nicolas Bouvier
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Fiction Weeks on list1.U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton (Putnam: $27.95) PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the 20-year-old case of the mysterious disappearance of a 4-year-old girl.1 2.Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (Knopf : $25.95) The short story master explores women and their relationships in 10 new stories. 3 3.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. 28 4.
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Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.
