Sunday Books: coverage for May 22, 2011
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The Getty’s risky business of buying looted antiquities gets a thorough examination in ‘Chasing Aphrodite.
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Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ is riffed on in a tale of the natural and supernatural intermingling in San Francisco.
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‘A Day in the Life of a Smiling Woman’ by Margaret Drabble; ‘Bullfighting’ by Roddy Doyle; ‘Teach Us to Sit Still’ by Tim Parks
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The fantasy series, being published in the U.S. for the first time, begins with a quest to restore a relic master’s magical powers and fight oppressors.
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The tremendous diversity of modern Latin American poetry is on display in a new anthology edited by Ilan Stavans that also features top-notch translations.
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He could become the king of Nordic noir.
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Reading Woolf’s extended essay ‘A Room of One’s Own’ is a transformative moment for one 15-year-old Tucson girl.
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Charles Freeman’s “Holy Bones, Holy Dust” is an insightful study of the religious rise of relics during the Middle Ages; plus a relic left behind by C.S. Lewis.
