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Also of interest ... in new frontiers
feature Four Fish by Paul Greenberg; Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá; Voyager by Stephen J. Pyne; Long for This World by Jonathan Weiner
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Author of the week: W.S. Merwin
feature What will Merwin do with his tenure as the nation’s new poet laureate?
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Summer satires: Four novels help us laugh to keep from crying
feature Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart; The Four Fingers of Death by Rick Moody; The Long Song by Andrea Levy; Star Island by Carl Hiaasen
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Also of interest ... fiction in translation
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The Disappearing Spoon by Sam Kean
feature Science writer Sam Kean has something interesting to say about every one of the 118 elements on the periodic table.
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Book of the week: American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People by T.H. Breen
feature In Breen’s eye-opening account of the run-up to the Revolution, the so-called Founding Fathers are more tag-alongs than catalysts, ambitious gentlemen in the position of having to follow the lead of angry commoners.
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Also of interest ... in remarkable reprints
feature Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada; The Hour by Bernard DeVoto; Wigs on the Green by Nancy Mitford; The Long Ships by Frans G. Bengtsson
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Author of the week: Jerry Della Femina
feature Della Femina’s 1970 memoir, From Those Wonderful Folks Who Brought You Pearl Harbor, has just been reprinted to capitalize on the popularity of Mad Men, the TV series he helped inspire.
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Author of the week: Anne Carson
feature The poet's latest work, Nox, is a reproduction of a scrapbook she assembled after one of her brothers died several years ago.
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Also of interest ... in new memoirs
feature Lay the Favorite by Beth Raymer; Wide Awake by Patricia Morrisroe; Never Tell Our Business to Strangers by Jennifer Mascia; Portrait of an Addict as a Young Man by Bill Clegg
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Book of the week: Blind Descent: The Quest to Discover the Deepest Place on Earth by James M. Tabor
feature Tabor's tale of adventure tracks two teams, on opposite sides of the world, as each set outs to discover the depths of two enormous cave systems, one in southern Mexico and one on the edge of the Black Sea.
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Acting White: The Ironic Legacy of Desegregation by Stuart Buck
feature The author argues that black students began embracing academic underachievement as a form of group identity when they entered hostile classrooms in desegretated schools.
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Author of the week: Elizabeth Gilbert
feature Gilbert struck a chord with Eat, Pray, Love, and she thinks the sneers of people who dismiss it are aimed not at her book but at its fans.
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Book of the week: Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture by Alice Echols
feature Echols makes a compelling case that the disco music of 1970s America played a meaningful role in helping women, minorities, and gay men realize dreams of equality that were born in the idealistic ’60s.
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