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Also of interest ... in seers and prophets
feature The Overton Window by Glenn Beck; The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender; More Money Than God by Sebastian Mallaby; Bob Marley by Chris Salewicz
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Book of the week: Fifth Avenue, 5 a.m.: Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
feature Wasson has written an “alluring little book” about the making of Breakfast at Tiffany's. It may come as a surprise to learn that Truman Capote wanted Marilyn Monroe to play the part of Holly Golightly.
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Book of the week: The Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches by S.C. Gwynne
feature Gwynne offers a gripping new history of the Comanche nation—the one native tribe that could have halted America's westward expansion—and its greatest leader, Quanah Parker.
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The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
feature Kirkpatrick was encouraged by Mark Zuckerberg to write this book, and the warts-and-all account of Facebook and its founder rings true.
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How Pleasure Works: The New Science of Why We Like What We Like by Paul Bloom
feature Bloom's powerful, entertaining book ties the experience of pleasure to the search for and perception of essential values.
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Also of interest ... in international intrigue
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Also of interest ... in new memoirs
feature Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison; Speech-less by Matt Latimer; The Kids Are All Right by Diana, Liz, Amanda, and Dan Welch; City Boy by Edmund White&l
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Author of the week: David Sibley
feature The “rock star” of American bird-watching has just released a book that he hopes will do for trees what The Sibley Guide to Birds did for the avian kingdom.
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Book of the week: A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon by Neil Sheehan
feature Neil Sheehan, author of the “splendid” Vietnam War book A Bright Shining Lie, has spent the last 15 years researching how Bernard Schriever developed the long-range missile program that altered the shape
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
feature Dickstein's essays on the movies, music, literature, and other cultural artifacts of the 1930s provide a sweeping and insightful narrative of the mind-set of Depression-era America.
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Author of the week: David Benedictus
feature In the fully authorized sequel to Winnie-the-Pooh, In Return to the Hundred Acre Wood, David Benedictus has given Eeyore just enough spunk that the gloomy donkey no longer plays perpetual victim.
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Author of the week: Jeff Kinney
feature The author of the Wimpy Kid picture books has become a hero to the grammar school set, and parents love him for turning their children into readers.
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Logicomix written by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou; illustrated by Alecos Papadatos and Annie di Donna
feature The quest for a logical foundation to mathematics is the subject of this "extraordinary" 350-page comic book and extraordinarily unlikely international best-seller.
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Book of the week: The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R. Crumb
feature Crumb’s intensely physical style makes the "elemental conflicts" and passions in the stories of the book of Genesis palpable.
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