Booklist articles from April 2007

Booklist archives from April 2007

Subject searching in booklist online.(BooklistOnline)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... The adult nonfiction section of Booklist is arranged in rough Dewey Decimal order. For Booklist Online, we've taken that subject approach and supersized it for our Browse Reviews function, which offers a greatly expanded number of topical...

Five times the free stuff.(BooklistOnline)(Brief article)
April 1, 2007... Each section of Booklist--Adult Books, Books for Youth, Media, and Reference--has its own home page in Booklist Online. Everything on every home page is free, so even if you aren't a subscriber, you have access to a wide array of new reviews...

Blount, Roy. Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Blount, Roy. Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South. May 2007. 400p. Knopf, $25 (0-307-26618-4). 975. It's gotta be tough to be Roy Blount Jr., a displaced southern liberal living in the Northeast. To hear him tell it, just about...

Jakes, T. D. Reposition Yourself: Living Life without Limits.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Jakes, T. D. Reposition Yourself: Living Life without Limits. May 2007. 336p. Atria, $24 (1-4165-4431-3). 248.4. Jakes takes the biblical definition of faith--the substance of things not yet realized--and adds that without some effort,...

Weisman, Alan. The World without Us.(Young adult review)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Weisman, Alan. The World without Us. July 2007.304p. illus. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-34729-4). 333. Given the burgeoning human population and the phenomenal reach of our technologies, humankind has literally become a...

Connelly, Michael. The Overlook.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Connelly, Michael. The Overlook. May 2007.240p. Little, Brown, $21.99 (9780316018951). Crime Fiction. This short novel began life as a 16-part serial in the New York Times. Despite being expanded somewhat for book publication, the story's...

Leonard, Elmore. Up in Honey's Room.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Leonard, Elmore. Up in Honey's Room. May 2007.304p. Morrow, $25.95 (0-06-072424-5). Crime Fiction. Leonard doesn't write series novels, but every now and then, he brings back a favorite character, much to his fans' delight. Here we're...

DeLillo, Don. Falling Man.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... DeLillo, Don. Falling Man. June 2007.256p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (1-4165-4602-2). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There have been a number of novels written in the past years about 9/11 that have attempted to come to grips with...

Ondaatje, Michael. Divisadero.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Ondaatje, Michael. Divisadero. June 2007.288p. Knopf, $25 (9780307266354). General Fiction. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The new novel by the author of The English Patient (1992)is easy to read, not because its theme and plot are simple but...

James, Sara and Mauney, Ginger. The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... James, Sara and Mauney, Ginger. The Best of Friends: Two Women, Two Continents, and One Enduring Friendship. June 2007. 352p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-077948-9). 070.1. As teenage girls are wont to do, James and Mauney first bonded over shared...

Sutton, Matthew Avery. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrecton of Christian America.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Sutton, Matthew Avery. Aimee Semple McPherson and the Resurrecton of Christian America. Apr. 2007. 378p. illus, index. Harvard, $26.95 (0-674-02531-8). 289.9. Sinclair Lewis thought he had taken the measure of America's most prominent...

Brook, Daniel. The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Brook, Daniel. The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America. June 2007. 288p. Holt/Times, $23 (9780805080650). 339.2 Selling out in order to make big bucks used to be viewed with contempt, but, Brook argues, in today's...

Buchanan, Mark. The Social Atom.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Buchanan, Mark. The Social Atom. June 2007. 256p. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (9781596910133). 302.3. Buchanan, a theoretical physicist, applies the principles of physics to the study of human behavior. Think of human beings, he says, as "social...

Carrillo-Gailey, Ayn. Pornology.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Carrillo-Gailey, Ayn. Pornology. Apr. 2007. 232p. Running Press, paper, $13.95 (9780762427741). 363.4. Readers eager to spice up carefully constructed lifestyles will appreciate this spunky, funky, hip-young-thang's look at the wonderful...

Chapman, Matthew. 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Chapman, Matthew. 40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, OxyContin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania. Apr. 2007. 288p. Collins, $25.95 (9780061179457). 345.748. Charles Darwin's great-great-grandson offers the...

Libraries, bookstores, and classics.(The Manley Arts)
April 1, 2007... The word classic is usually defined in two different ways. As a noun, it generally means something of timeless value or enduring worth. A classic is a creation whose relevance transcends time. Used as an adjective, the word typically means...

Daniels, Cora. Ghettonation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and the Home of the Shameless.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Daniels, Cora. Ghettonation: A Journey into the Land of Bling and Home of the Shameless. 2006. 256p. Doubleday, $23.95 (0-385-51643-6). 305.896. Daniels, author of Black Power Inc. (2004), focuses on the ghetto, not as a place but as a...

Dayan, Colin. The Story of Cruel and Unusual.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Dayan, Colin. The Story of Cruel and Unusual. Apr. 2007. 108p. MIT, $14.95 (9780262042390). 323.4. The Iraqi war and the U.S. war on terror have brought the issue of torture to the forefront. Have our actions become too similar to those we...

Eberhart, Mark E. Feeding the Fire: The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Eberhart, Mark E. Feeding the Fire: The Lost History and Uncertain Future of Mankind's Energy Addiction. May 2007. 288p. Harmony, $24 (9780307237446). 333.79. Like the oft-quoted "Just say no!" antidrug slogan of the 1980s, platitudes...

Eisler, Riane. The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Eisler, Riane. The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics. Apr. 2007. 250p. illus, index. Berrett-Koehler, $24.95 (9781576753880). 330.12. Forward-thinking social scientist Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade (1987)...

Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Hitchens, Christopher. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. May 2007. 320p. index. Twelve, $24.99 (0-446-57980-7). 200. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] God is getting bad press lately. Sam Harris' The End of Faith (2005) and...

Ward, Keith. Is Religion Dangerous?(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Ward, Keith. Is Religion Dangerous? Apr. 2007. 206p. index. Eerdmans, paper, $16 (9780802845085). 200. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Although he lacks the glibness, arrogance, and fame of best-selling antireligionists Richard Dawkins, Sam...

Ghazvinian, John. Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Ghazvinian, John. Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil. Apr. 2007. 336p. Harcourt, $25 (9780151011384). 333. The possibility of Africa as a greater source of oil, and a way to reduce dependence on the Middle East, raises questions about...

Henneberger, Melinda. If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Henneberger, Melinda. If They Only Listened to Us: What Women Voters Want Politicians to Hear. May 2007. 240p. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-7896-8). 324.6. Journalist Henneberger traveled the nation to ask women what mattered to them and...

Hunt, David. On the Hunt: How to Win the War on Terror, Support Our Troops, and Protect Our Liberty at Home.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Hunt, David. On the Hunt: How to Win the War on Terror, Support Our Troops, and Protect Our Liberty at Home. Apr. 2007. 272p. Crown Forum, $26.95 (9780307347596). 363.325. Retired army colonel and Fox News military analyst Hunt offers what...

Langewiesche, William. The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Langewiesche, William. The Atomic Bazaar: The Rise of the Nuclear Poor. May 2007. 179p. Farrar, $22 (9780374106782). 355.02. In his sixth book of combustible investigative journalism, Langewiesche, long a correspondent for the Atlantic...

Lukacs, John. George Kennan: A Study of Character.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Lukacs, John. George Kennan: A Study of Character. Apr. 2007. 288p. Yale, $26 (0-300-12221-7). 327.730092. In this biographical sketch of diplomat and historian Kennan (1904-2005), Lukacs reconnoiters the terrain for future formal...

Finan, Christopher. From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Finan, Christopher. From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America. May 2007. 352p. Beacon, $25.95 (9780807044285). 342. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] It's obvious from this fascinating book that...

Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Essential Writings of Machiavelli.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Machiavelli, Niccolo. The Essential Writings of Machiavelli. Ed. and tr. by Peter Constantine. Apr. 2007.54p. Modern Library, $17.95 (0-8129-7423-9). 320.1. The synonym for political cynicism, Niccolo Machiavelli wrote much more than The...

Maclean, John N. The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Maclean, John N. The Thirtymile Fire: A Chronicle of Bravery and Betrayal. June 2007. 256p. Holt/John Macrae, $24 (9780805075786). 363.37. Maclean follows up Fire on the Mountain (1999) and Fire and Ashes (2003) with another gripping...

Rangel, Charles B. and Wynter, Leon. And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Rangel, Charles B. and Wynter, Leon. And I Haven't Had a Bad Day Since: From the Streets of Harlem to the Halls of Congress. Apr. 2007. 320p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (9780312372521). 320. Rangel, the newly elected chairman of the...

Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Can We Talk about Race? And Other Conversations in an Era of School Resegregation. Apr. 2007. 160p. Beacon, $22.95 (9780807032848). 305.8. Ten years ago, Tatum's book asked the question, Why Are All the Black Kids...

Blumenthal, Karen. Grande Expectations: A Year in the Life of the Starbucks' Stock.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Blumenthal, Karen. Grande Expectations: A Year in the Life of the Starbucks' Stock. Apr. 2007. 272p. index. Crown Business, $24.95 (9780307339713). 332.63. Wall Street Journal bureau chief Blumenthal is a seasoned financial reporter, yet...

Williams, Wendy and Whitcomb, Robert. Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for America's Energy Future on Nantucket Sound.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Williams, Wendy and Whitcomb, Robert. Cape Wind: Money, Celebrity, Class, Politics, and the Battle for America's Energy Future on Nantucket Sound. May 2007. 336p. illus. PublicAffairs, $26.95 (1-58648-397-8). 333.9. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]...

Bravo, Ellen. Taking on the Big Boys; or, Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Bravo, Ellen. Taking on the Big Boys; or, Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation. Apr. 2007. 296p. Feminist, paper, $15.95 (9781558615458). 305.420973. A longtime player in the women's labor movement, Bravo makes the...

Landsburg, Steven E. More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Landsburg, Steven E. More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics. Apr. 2007. 304p. index. Free Press, $26 (9781416532217). 330. Economist Landsburg sets out to explain extraordinary findings and logical arguments about...

Weinberger, David. Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Weinberger, David. Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder. May 2007. 288p. index. Times, $25 (9780805080438). 338. Think about how you organize your CD collection. Whether you're quirky or meticulous, once you...

Angier, Natalie. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Angier, Natalie. The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science. May 2007. 304p. Houghton, $27 (0-61824295-3). 500. Popular indifference toward science regularly motivates writers to attempt mass-market enlightenment. Travel...

Bernstein, Jeremy. Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Bernstein, Jeremy. Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element. Apr. 2007. 224p. illus, index. Joseph Henry, $27.95 (9780309102964). 546. Physicist Bernstein has written books about Einstein, Oppenheimer, and the German...

A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... A Leaky Tent Is a Piece of Paradise. Ed. by Bonnie Tsui. Apr. 2007. 312p. Sierra Club; dist. by Univ. of California, $19.95 (9781578051274). 508. Seeking insight into how writers under 30 gain connection to the natural world, editor Tsui...

Schaller, George B. A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales from a Life in the Field.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Schaller, George B. A Naturalist and Other Beasts: Tales from a Life in the Field. Apr. 2007. 272p. illus. Sierra Club; dist. by Univ. of California, $24.95 (9781578051298). 590. Schaller, field biologist and vice president of the Wildlife...

Stutchbury, Bridget. Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Stutchbury, Bridget. Silence of the Songbirds: How We Are Losing the World's Songbirds and What We Can Do to Save Them. May 2007. 272p. illus. HarperCollins, $24.95 (9780802716095). 598.8. "We will unravel the mystery of the disappearing...

Ward, Peter D. Under the Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Mean for Our Future.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Ward, Peter D. Under the Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Mean for Our Future. Apr. 2007. 256p. illus, index. Collins, $26.95 (9780061137914). 577.27. Popular science writer and paleontologist Ward...

Broadnax, Samuel L. Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Broadnax, Samuel L. Blue Skies, Black Wings: African American Pioneers of Aviation. 2007. 208p. Praeger, $44.95 (0275-99195-4). 629.13092. Broadnax fell in love with aviation at an early age, watching daredevils fly in carnivals in a small...

Comins, Neil F. The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Comins, Neil F. The Hazards of Space Travel: A Tourist's Guide. May 2007. 272p. Villard, $19.95 (1-4000-6597-6). 629.4. Looking to the future of space tourism, which will include vacation packages to the Moon, Mars, and Jovian moons,...

Savarese, Ralph James. Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Savarese, Ralph James. Reasonable People: A Memoir of Autism and Adoption. May 2007. 496p. Other, $25.95 (9781590511299). 616.85. By his own admission, Grinnell professor Savarese never wanted to have children, which makes his memoir of his...

Smith, Daniel B. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Smith, Daniel B. Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination. 2007. 256p. index. Penguin, $24.95 (9781594201103). 616.89. Smith's father and grandfather both heard voices, and thereby...

Darke, Rick. The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Darke, Rick. The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes. Apr. 2007. 500p. illus, index. Timber, $59.95 (9780881928174). 635.9. Taking a broad view of gardening with grasses, Darke acknowledges the ornamental attributes that enhance...

Hobson, Jake. Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Hobson, Jake. Niwaki: Pruning, Training and Shaping Trees the Japanese Way. Apr. 2007. 144p. illus, index. Timber, $34.95 (9780881928358). 635.9. Hobson illuminates the practice known as niwaki in a fascinating, long overdue guide to...

Casas, Penelope. Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Casas, Penelope. Tapas: The Little Dishes of Spain. Rev. ed. 2007. 272p. illus, index. Knopf, $30 (9780307265524). 641.8. This updating of Casas' classic 1985 introduction to tapas shows just how deeply tapas has penetrated America's...

White, Marco Pierre and Steen, James. The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... White, Marco Pierre and Steen, James. The Devil in the Kitchen: Sex, Pain, Madness, and the Making of a Great Chef. May 2007. 256p. Bloomsbury, $24.95 (9781596913615). 641. Enfant terrible of the kitchen, White earned three Michelin stars...

Willinsky, Helen. Jerk from Jamaica: Barbecue Caribbean Style.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Willinsky, Helen. Jerk from Jamaica: Barbecue Caribbean Style. June 2007. 192p. illus, index. Ten Speed, paper, $18.95 (9781580088428). 641.59. Those who have never sampled Jamaican cuisine have no idea of the great variety of flavors and...

The Fine Art of Chinese Brush Painting.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... The Fine Art of Chinese Brush Painting. 2007. 144p. illus, index. Sterling, paper, $17.95 (1-4027-4394-7). 751.42. Chinese brush painting cuts to the core of its subject, revealing its essence in a few, or sometimes even a single,...

Harpur, Jerry. Gardens in Perspective: Garden Design in Our Time.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Harpur, Jerry. Gardens in Perspective: Garden Design in Our Time. 2007. 256p. illus, index. Sterling/Mitchell Beazley, $39.95 (1-84000-771-0). 712.6. Just when one might believe that there could not possibly be anything new or noteworthy...

Haworth-Booth, Mark. The Art of Lee Miller.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Haworth-Booth, Mark. The Art of Lee Miller. May 2007. 224p. illus, index. Yale, $60 (0-300-12375-3). 770.92 The Lee Miller revival continues with a sublime collection of her discerning and expressive photographs, a fitting celebration of...

Weber, Nicholas Fox. The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune,Their Great and Influential Art Collections, Their Forty-Year Feud.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... * Weber, Nicholas Fox. The Clarks of Cooperstown: Their Singer Sewing Machine Fortune, Their Great and Influential Art Collections,Their Forty-Year Feud. May 2007. 432p. illus, index. Knopf, $35 (0-307-26347-9). 709.2. [ILLUSTRATION...

Johnson-Woods, Toni. Blame Canada! South Park and Contemporary Culture.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Johnson-Woods, Toni. Blame Canada! South Park and Contemporary Culture. Apr. 2007. 288p. illus, index. Continuum, $59.95 (0-8264-1730-2); paper, $19.95 (0-8264-1731-0). 791.45. Australian pop-cultural scholar Johnson-Woods, who has also...

Khoury, George and Nolen-Weathington, Eric. Kevin Maguire: Modern Masters, v. 10.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Khoury, George and Nolen-Weathington, Eric. Kevin Maguire: Modern Masters, v. 10. 2007. 128p. illus. Two Morrows, paper, $14.95 (9781893905665). 741.5. Shortly after breaking into the comic-book business in the mid-1980s, Maguire snagged...

A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of Forward.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... A Living Lens: Photographs of Jewish Life from the Pages of Forward. Ed. by Alana Newhouse. Apr. 2007. 352p. illus. Norton, $39.95 (9780393062694). 779. The Jewish daily Forward was founded in 1897. Published in Yiddish, by the 1920s it...

Simon, Leslie and Kelley, Trevor. Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Simon, Leslie and Kelley, Trevor. Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture. Apr. 2007. 241p. illus. Harper Entertainment, paper, $13.95 (9780061195396). 781.66. Simon and Kelley describe emo culture slyly in this perky lifestyle...

William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... William Powell Frith: Painting the Victorian Age. Ed. by Mark Bills and Vivien Knight. 2007. 208p. illus, index. Yale, $65 (0-300-12190-3). 759.2. After more than a century of near oblivion, the Victorian painter William Powell Frith is...

Holden, Anthony. Bigger Deal: A Year inside the Poker Room.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Holden, Anthony. Bigger Deal: A Year inside the Poker Room. May 2007. 336p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-7432-9482-3). 794.41. Holden is British, but he knows Texas hold 'em; he proved that in Big Deal (1990), an account of his successful year...

Martin, Andy. Stealing the Wave: The Epic Battle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Martin, Andy. Stealing the Wave: The Epic Battle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo. June 2007. 256p. Bloomsbury, $23.95 (1-59691-380-0). 797.3. A couple of days before Christmas 1994, two of big-wave surfing's biggest names and fiercest...

Stanton, Tom. Ty & the Babe: The Incredible Saga of Baseball's Fiercest Rivals, the Forging of an Unfathomable Friendship, and the Battle for the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Stanton, Tom. Ty & the Babe: The Incredible Saga of Baseball's Fiercest Rivals, the Forging of an Unfathomable Friendship, and the Battle for the 1941 Has-Beens Golf Championship. May 2007. 358p. index. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95...

Fadiman, Anne. At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Fadiman, Anne. At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays. May 2007. 220p. Farrar, $21 (0-374-10662-2). 814. Fadiman begins her second essay collection by quoting her father, the waggish intellectual of page, radio, and television Clifton...

Leader, Zachary. The Life of Kingsley Amis.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Leader, Zachary. The Life of Kingsley Amis. Apr. 2007. 1,008p. illus, index. Pantheon, $39.95 (0-375-42498-9). 823. This is one big, fat, and fascinating biography of Kingsley Amis. The author of Lucky Jim and a host of similarly wicked and...

Magee, David. The South Is Round: Contemplations of a 21st-Century Redneck.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Magee, David. The South Is Round: Contemplations of a 21st-Century Redneck. Apr. 2007. 208p. Jefferson, $19.95 (9780977808625). 814.54. Newspaper columnist Magee offers up a good-natured riposte to The World Is Flat, in which Thomas...

Paretsky, Sara. Writing in an Age of Silence.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Paretsky, Sara. Writing in an Age of Silence. May 2007. 158p. Verso, $22.95 (9781844671229). 808.3. Fans of Paretsky's V. I. Warshawski series won't be surprised by her passion for social justice--in each novel, the sleuth tackles a...

Alther, Lisa. Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Alther, Lisa. Kinfolks: Falling off the Family Tree. Apr. 2007. 264p. illus. Arcade, $25 (I-55970-832-8). 813 Trading on the title of her first novel, the best-selling Kinflicks (1976), Alther presents Kinfolks, her first work of...

Morano, Michele. Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Morano, Michele. Grammar Lessons: Translating a Life in Spain. 2007. 172p. Univ. of Iowa, $22.50 (9781587295300). 814. Morano has a broad perspective on both grammar and traveling. To her, grammar as language and storytelling are key to...

Powers, Paul S. Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Powers, Paul S. Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street. Ed. by Laurie Powers. May 2007. 272p. illus. Univ. of Nebraska/Bison, paper, $19.95 (0-80325984-0).813. This is a real gem, but first a little background. An unpublished...

Stubbs, John. John Donne: The Reformed Soul.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Stubbs, John. John Donne: The Reformed Soul. Apr. 2007. 576p. index. Norton, $35 (9780393062601). 821. The greatest English metaphysical poet was and wasn't a man of letters, as Stubbs shows in as engaging a work of scholarship as a...

Waugh, Alexander. Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Waugh, Alexander. Fathers and Sons: The Autobiography of a Family. May 2007. 480p. Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, $27.50 (0-385-52150-2). 821. The hearts of four generations of Waughs have pumped more ink than blood. This, after all, is a family...

Thomas Wolfe: An Illustrated Biography.(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Thomas Wolfe: An Illustrated Biography. Ed. by Ted Mitchell. May 2007. 272p. illus. Pegasus, $22 (1-933648-10-4). 813. Windows of the Heart: The Correspondence of Thomas Wolfe and Margaret Roberts. Ed. by Ted Mitchell. Apr. 2007. 272p....

Dennis, Carl. Unknown Friends.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Dennis, Carl. Unknown Friends. Apr. 2007. 76p. Penguin, $18 (9780143038757). 811. After winning the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Practical Gods, Dennis offers a weaker collection. Especially early in this new volume, his poems...

Kane, Paul. Work Life.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Kane, Paul. Work Life. Apr. 2007.96p. Turtle Point, paper, $16.95 (1-93352707-2). 811. Kane's big third collection presents poems as well crafted as any these days, as well as a wonderfully appealing persona. His poetic voice is modest,...

On Retirement: 75 Poems.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... On Retirement: 75 Poems. Ed. by Robin Chapman and Judith Strasser. Apr. 2007. 122p. index. Univ. of Iowa, paper, $19.95 (9781587295270). 808.81. Comfortably retired coeditors Chapman and Strasser are under no illusions about what the...

Poetry Daily Essentials, 2007.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Poetry Daily Essentials, 2007. Ed. by Diane Boller and Don Selby. Apr. 2007. 240p. Sourcebooks, paper, $14.95 (1-40220927-4). 811. One-a-day prescriptions can apply to poems as easily as the proverbial apple. One easy way to imbibe a daily...

White, Patti. Yellow Jackets.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... White, Patti. Yellow Jackets. Apr. 2007.98p. Anhinga, paper, $14 (9780938078951). 811. Admirers of White's wonderfully varied and appealing Tackle Box (2002) may feel trepidatious when they see that the first poem in her new collection is...

Wheeler, Tony. Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Wheeler, Tony. Tony Wheeler's Bad Lands. Apr. 2007. 344p. illus. Lonely Planet, paper, $14.99 (9781741791860). 910. Wheeler traveled through nine countries--or, if you prefer, bad lands--Afghanistan, Albania, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya,...

Baldwin, John and Powers, Ron. Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Baldwin, John and Powers, Ron. Last Flag Down: The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship. May 2007. 352p. Crown, $25.95 (9780307236555). 973.7. By late 1864, it seemed clear that the Confederacy had only a short time to live. In the...

Barone, Michael. Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Uprising That Inspired America's Founding Fathers.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Barone, Michael. Our First Revolution: The Remarkable British Uprising That Inspired America's Founding Fathers. May 2007. 336p. Crown, $25.95 (1-4000-9792-4). 941.06. Barone, the high-profile sage on American elections (The Almanac of...

Bascomb, Neal. Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin.(Young adult review)(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Bascomb, Neal. Red Mutiny: Eleven Fateful Days on the Battleship Potemkin. May 2007. 400p. illus, index. Houghton, $26 (0-61859206-7). 947.08. The Potemkin has been the subject of many movies, but only one English-language history of the...

Jordan, Pete. Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All 50 States.(Brief article)(Book review)
April 1, 2007... Jordan, Pete. Dishwasher: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All 50 States. May 2007. 384p. HarperCollins/Perennial, paper, $13.95 (9780060896423). 910 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Jordan, sometimes known as "Dishwasher Pete" serves up one...