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She Left Me the Gun: My Mother’s Life Before Me by Emma Brockes
feature When her mother dies, Emma Brockes discovers that she deeply underestimated her mother’s bravery and resilience.
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Also of interest...in comic relief
feature Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls; Dad Is Fat; Screw Everyone; Snapper
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Book of the week: The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America by George Packer
feature George Packer creates a national portrait by interweaving the stories of individual Americans.
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Book of the week: Saving Italy: The Race to Rescue a Nation’s Treasures From the Nazis by Robert M. Edsel
feature Robert M. Edsel's account of the so-called Monuments Men often “reads like a good spy thriller.”
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Also of interest...in fish-out-of-water tales
feature Americanah; Junius and Albert’s Adventures in the Confederacy; Is This Tomorrow; The Golem and the Jinni
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Author of the week: James Salter
feature James Salter “works his sentences like a cadet polishing a belt buckle.”
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Also of interest...in faith and doubt
feature Elders; My Bright Abyss; ’Til Faith Do Us Part; The God Argument
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Author of the week: Judy Blume
feature Judy Blume finally knows what her novel Tiger Eyes was really about.
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Permanent Present Tense: The Unforgettable Life of the Amnesic Patient, H. M. by Suzanne Corkin
feature No one is better suited to write Henry Molaison’s story than neuroscientist Suzanne Corkin.
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Book of the week: What Do Women Want?: Adventures in the Science of Female Desire by Daniel Bergner
feature Journalist Daniel Bergner reduces the modern stereotypes of female sexuality to rubble.
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Also of interest...in odes to Texas
feature Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right; Rhapsody in Black; The Eye of the Mammoth; The Prophets of Smoked Meat
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Rumsfeld’s Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Lifeby Donald Rumsfeld
feature The anecdotes accompanying Donald Rumsfeld's aphorisms are often “the most compelling parts of the book.”
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Author of the week: Lydia Davis
feature The American writer's work was recently honored when she became the fifth winner of the Man Booker International Prize.
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Book of the week: Ready for a Brand New Beat: How ‘Dancing in the Street’ Became the Anthem for a Changing America by Mark Kurlansky
feature The 1964 Motown hit by Martha and the Vandellas is more than a peppy but inconsequential oldie.
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