April 5, 2019 7:26 AM PT Facebook Twitter Show more sharing options Share Close extra sharing options Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Copy Link URLCopied! Print 1 Entertainment & Arts Word Play: Louis Sachar’s card-playing obsession In ‘The Cardturner,’ the bestselling author of “Holes” turns to one of his favorite games: bridge.May 7, 2010 2 Entertainment & Arts The Siren’s Call: Fragile wiring In “The Boy with the Cuckoo-clock Heart,” a young man looks for love and stays alive thanks to a little wooden clock. Plus: “The Bradbury Report’s” unsettling vision of the near-future.May 9, 2010 3 Entertainment & Arts Authors and ideas: Martin Amis and an Italian idyll The British writer’s ‘The Pregnant Widow’ travels back to the days of the sexual revolution.May 9, 2010 4 Entertainment & Arts Misery’s company in Jane Smiley’s latest, ‘Private Life’ In the author’s new novel, a marriage turns into a war of weaknesses.May 9, 2010 5 Entertainment & Arts Bard battles: ‘Contested Will’ by James Shapiro A Shakespeare scholar comprehensively addresses the issue: Who wrote the plays attributed to the Bard?May 9, 2010 6 Entertainment & Arts Book Review: ‘The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare’ by Doug Stewart A bored law clerk claims to have discovered several Shakespearean relics. He is eventually exposed as a fraud.May 9, 2010 7 Entertainment & Arts Books & Ideas: Stephen Ambrose’s troubling Eisenhower record In setting out to pen an Eisenhower biography of his own, the writer takes note of famed historian Ambrose’s less-than-detailed sourcing.May 9, 2010 8 Entertainment & Arts Book review: ‘Life Would Be Perfect If I Lived in That House’ by Meghan Daum One woman’s quest for her dream home.May 9, 2010 9 Entertainment & Arts Discoveries: ‘The Secret Life of the Grown-Up Brain’ Plus: ‘Take Good Care of the Garden and Dogs,’ ‘Cold Earth’ and ‘Wait.’May 9, 2010
