Reviews of business, biography, current events, self-help, memoir, and lifestyle books.
Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/16/2009 11/16/2009
This week: stars for Lynne Olson's Citizens of London, Daring Young Men by Richard Reeves, Susan Krauss's The Search for Fulfillment, and David Kynaston's Family Britain: 1951-1957. Plus: Daniel Menaker, Kathleen Rooney, Larry McMurty, Mikhail Chekhov, Ellen Sandbeck, and more. More
Nonfiction Reviews 11/09/2009
Starred reviews for: Still Life by Melissa Milgrom; Paper Fortunes by Roy C. Smith; Our Times by A.N. Wilson; The Harvard Psychedelic Club by Don Lattio; Love & War by John and Stasi Eldredge;
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Nonfiction Book Reviews: 11/2/2009 11/02/2009
Stars for Elif Batuman's The Possessed, Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow, Sean Carroll's From Eternity to Here, Raj Patel's The Value of Nothing, Lee Smith's The Strong Horse, and Andrew Friedman's Knives at Dawn.
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Nonfiction Book Reviews: 10/26/2009 10/26/2009
Stars for Alice Wood's Wealth Watchers and How They See Us, edited by James Atlas. Also featured: Steven Solomon, Alanna Nash, P.D. James, Frank Kermode, Alison Weir, Shankar Vedantam, and more.
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Nonfiction Book Reviews: 10/19/2009 10/19/2009
Starred reviews for Janice Perlman's Favela, Peter Hessler's Country Driving, Leila J. Rupp's Sapphistries,More
Nonfiction Reviews: 10/5/2009 10/05/2009
Starred reviews for Rebecca Skloot's The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Hillel Cohen's Good Arabs, Barbara Levin's Finding Frida Kahlo, Michael Benson's Far Out, Thomas Keller Artisan's Ad Hoc at Home, and Mille Katzen's Get Cooking.
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Nonfiction Reviews: 9/28/2009 09/28/2009
Starred reviews for: Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt, Nothing to Envy by Barbara Demick, Settled in the Wild by Susan Hand Shetterly, Trotsky by Robert Service,
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