Booklist articles from November 2003

Booklist archives from November 2003

Phillips, Kevin. American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Jan 2004. 384p. Viking, $25.95 (0-670-03264-6). 973.928. There are many Bush-bashing books out there, but this one is quite different Ivins, Franken, and Conason, among others, have focused primarily on the current president's...

* Chevalier, Tracy. The Lady and the Unicorn.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
November 1, 2003... Jan 2004. 254p. Dutton, $23.95 (0-525-94767-1). The author of Girl with a Pearl Earring (2000) and Falling Angels (2001) offers a luminous tale about a set of medieval tapestries known as the Lady and the Unicorn sequence Nicolas des...

Brookner, Anita. The Rules of Engagement.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Jan. 2004. 288p. Random, $23.95 (1-4000-6165-2). Two London girls born in 1948 and both named Elizabeth start school on the same day One is asked to choose an alternative, and she opts for Betsy, a bid for cheerfulness in light of her dim...

Cussler, Clive. Trojan Odyssey.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dec. 2003 496p. Putnam, $27.95 (0-399-15080-3). The latest Dirk Pitt thriller, like its 16 predecessors, is ready made for the big screen. (Let's hope it makes a better movie than 1980's Raise the Titanic, also based on a Pitt adventure,...

Finder, Joseph. Paranoia.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Jan. 2004, 432p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-31914-2). Adam Cassidy, low-level employee of Wyatt Telecom, is bored. So he cracks the corporate accounts to give a nice old guy who works on the loading dock a retirement party to equal a...

Howard, Linda. Cry No More.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003 320p. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-45341-7). Milla is a woman with a mission: 10 years after her baby son, Justin, was snatched from her arms, she still hunts for him every day, Her dedicated passion led her to start Finders, an...

Krentz, Jayne Ann. Truth or Dare.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Jan. 2004. 416p. Putnam, $24.95 (0-399-15073-0). In her latest paranormal tale, Krentz takes up the story of psychic interior designer Zoe and private investigator Ethan, who met and fell in love in Light in Shadow [BKL N 1 02]. They are...

Oates, Joyce Carol. Rape: a Love Story.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Jan. 2004. 160p. Carroll & Graf/Otto Penzler, $16 (0-7867-1294-5). Men as predators preying on girls and women have always piqued Oates' depthless imagination, and her home ground, beautiful but backward rural New York State, is often the...

* Pelecanos, George. Hard Revolution.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Mar. 2004. 384p. Little, Brown, $24.95 (0-316-60897-1). Pelecanos has been justly celebrated for his noir sensibility and his gritty portraits of the streets of Washington, D.C., but he hasn't been recognized for what may be his greatest...

Rosenberg, Joel C. The Last Days.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 336p. Tor/Forge, $24.95 (0-765-30928-9). It's the near future. Osama bin Laden is dead; so are Saddam Hussein and his sons. AI-Qaeda and the Taliban have been wiped out. Iraq is in ruins, and it's up to Jon Bennett, the U.S....

Baxter, John. A Pound of Paper: Confessions of a Book Addict.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 432p. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-31725-5). 002. There is no small charm to a tale that begins where Baxter grew up, in Middle-of-Nowhere, Australia, and ends in the Paris penthouse above where Sylvia Beach once lived....

* Auletta, Ken. Backstory: Inside the Business of News.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 280p. Penguin/Penguin Press, $24.95 (1-59420-000-9). 071. Auletta, author and respected media critic, frames his concerns about the state of modern American journalism, particularly the uneasy wedding of business interests and...

Laskas, Jeanne Marie. The Exact Same Moon: Fifty Acres and a Family.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 289p. Bantam, $23.95 (0-553-80263-1). 070.92. In this delightful sequel to Fifty Acres and a Poodle (2000), Laskas continues to chronicle her city-girl adjustment to country life. Now that she and her husband, three dogs, two...

Wolff, Michael. Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures with the Titans, Poseurs and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed up Big Media.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 272p. index. HarperBusiness, $25.95 (0-06-662113-5). 070.1. The source of this book is the column Wolff writes for New York magazine called "This Media Life." As a media journalist, he finds himself in the strange position of...

Camp, Lee. Mere Discipleship: Radical Christianity in a Rebellious World.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 208p. index. Baker/Brazes, paper, $14.99 (1-58743-049-5). 230. It is easy to forget that Christianity began as a radical religion, that the assertion "Jesus is Lord" is radical. Camp reminds us of the faith's radical roots. He...

The Manley arts: drip, drip, drip.
November 1, 2003... The notorious Cliff Notes option--read the synopsis, dump the book--has been available to high-school and college students for more than half a century, but I can honestly say that I only took advantage of it once. From time to time, I have...

Glucklich, Ariel. Climbing Chamundi Hill: 1001 Steps with a Storyteller and a Reluctant Pilgrim.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 256p. HarpefSanFrancisco, $24.95 (0-06-050894-9). 294.5. In Mysore, India, are a palace, a monastery, and, incongruously, a racetrack doubling as an 18-hole golf course. Also, atop nearby Chamundi Hill is a twelfth-century...

Sipe, A. W. Richard. Celibacy in Crisis: a Secret World Revisited.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 336p. index. Brunner-Routledge, paper, $24.95 (0-415-94473-2). 253. Sipe, a psychotherapist and former priest, reexamines the Roman Catholic Church's policy of mandatory clerical celibacy in light of the recently exposed sexual...

Wakefield, Dan. Spiritually Incorrect: Finding God in All the Wrong Places.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 176p. illus. index. SkyLight Paths, $21.95 (1-893361-88-8). 248.4. Readers of Wakefield's Internet column "Spiritually Incorrect" and his earlier books know his breezy, punchy style and entertaining way with a story. He recalls...

Barber, Benjamin R. Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 192p. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05836-0). 327.73. The logic of preventative war, argues this assertive critique of the Bush administration's supposedly new foreign policy, isn't so fundamentally different from the cold war doctrine...

By Their Deeds Alone: America's Combat Commanders on the Art of War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Ed. by Richard D Hooker. Dec. 2003. 256p. Ballantine/Presidio, paper, $13.95 (0-89141-807-5). 355.4. Eleven solid historical essays by 11 serving or retired army officers discuss as many twentieth-century military operations. Colonel Dan...

Corwin, Miles. Homicide Special: a Year with the LAPD's Elite Detective Unit.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Jan. 2004. 400p. illus. Holt, $25 (0-8050-6798-1). 363.25. Corwin has cruised with detectives before in book form (The Killing Season: A Summer inside an LAPP Homicide Division, 1997). In this reprise, he rolls the streets with the...

Gaiduk, Ilya V. The Great Confrontation: Europe and Islam through the Centuries.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 238p. index. Ivan R. Dee, $26 (1-56663-535-7). 303.48. Taking issue with the "clash of civilizations" model born sometime in the medieval past and recently articulated by modern orientalists Samuel P. Huntington and Bernard...

Morgan, Ted. Reds: McCarthyism in Twentieth-Century America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 608p. illus. index Random, $35 (0-679-44399-1), 320.973. Morgan, who has written widely praised biographies of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, now offers an ambitious, engrossing, and provocative work on the recurring...

Genocide of the Mind: an Anthology of Native American Writing.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Ed. by MariJo Moore. Nov. 2003. 384p. Thunder's Mouth. paper, $16.95 (1-56025-511-0). 305.897. Addressing the genocide of Native American cultural identity over the past 100 years, this collection of 35 essays by authors representing more...

Hooks, Bell. Teaching Community: a Pedagogy of Hope.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 160p. index. Routledge, paper, $17.95 (0-415-96818-6). 370.11. Hooks brings passion and an updated perspective from her Teaching to Transgress (1994J to this challenging look at the failings of educational institutions and how...

Klein, Michael. The End of Being Known.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 156p. Univ. of Wisconsin, $19.95 (0-299-18870-1). 305.38. Klein uses his gifts as a poet well in these short memoirs, packing them with telling images and subtle nuances of sensation. The pieces are densely written examinations...

Prothrow-Stith, Deborah and Spivak, Howard R. Murder is No Accident: Understanding and Preventing Youth Violence in America.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 276p. index. Jossey-Bass, $35 (0-7879-6980-X). 303.6. Prothrow-Stith, a black female physician, and Spivak, a Jewish doctor, offer the strong message that violence is a preventable public-health problem. In part 1, they offer...

Rothman, Sheila M. and Rothman, David J. The Pursuit of Perfection: the Promise and Perils of Medical Enhancement.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 304p. illus. index. Pantheon, $25 (0-679-43980-3). 362.1. The Rothmans ask what happens when science, medicine, and commerce combine to promise biological perfection, which, they say, while it is an attractive and seductive...

Shapiro, Walter. One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats before America Tunes In.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 240p. Public Affairs, $25 (1-58648-187-8). 324.2736. Shapiro, political columnist for USA Today, takes a very early look at some of the 2004 presidential bids of Democratic candidates, when their campaigns are essentially one-car...

Spencer, Colin. British Food: an Extraordinary Thousand Years of History.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 416p. illus. index. Columbia, $35 (0-231-13110-0). 394.1. Few national cuisines have endured as much abuse as Britain's, Vilified as unimaginative and heavy, it has traditionally been recognized for only two achievements: the...

Vaitheeswaran, Vijay. Power to the People: How the Coming Energy Revolution Will Transform an Industry, Change Our Lives, and Maybe Even Save the Planet.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 320p. index. Farrar, $25 (0-374-23675-5). 333.79. Should the goals of environmentalism be advanced by govern mental dictate or by market forces? Both should be used, concludes this survey of energy production and pricing by the...

Anosike, Benji O. How to Declare Your Personal Bankruptcy without a Lawyer.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Anosike, Benji O. How to Declare Your Personal Bankruptcy without a Lawyer. 2003. 230p. index. Do-R-Yourself Legal, $29.95 (0-932704-62-X). 346.73. Bankruptcy is booming in the U.S., and yet individuals and business people who find...

Bak, Richard. Henry and Edsel: the Creation of the Ford Empire.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 320p. illus. index. Wiley, $27.95 (0-471-23487-7). 332.64. "Get a horse!" onlookers shouted at Henry Ford as he drove his first car. Yet the Ford Motor Company, a multibillion-dollar empire, grew out of that original experiment. The...

Hertz, Noreena. The Silent Takeover: Global Capitalism and the Death of Democracy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 304p. index. HarperBusiness, paper, $14.95 (0-06-055973-X). 338. In the new global economy, the rule of government has taken a backseat to the power of big business. Corporations control much of the way we live, from the quality of...

Johnston, Tim. Diary of a Job Search: One Man's Journey from Unemployment to a New Career.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 224p. index. Ten Speed, paper, $16.95 (1-58008-545-8). 650.14. Johnston, who got his M.B.A. from Boston University in May 2000, says that when he graduated, "anyone who could breathe could get a job." But with the dot-corn...

Mahar, Maggie. Bull! What Drove the Breakneck Market--and What Every Investor Needs to Know about Financial Cycles.(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 496p. illus. index. HarperBusiness, $26.95 (0-06-056413-X). 332.64. Mahar, a journalist, explores the intrigue and implications of the famous 1982-99 bull market. We are introduced to money managers, stock analysts, and market timers...

O'Hara, William T. Centuries of Success: Lessons from the World's Most Enduring Family Businesses.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 352p. illus. index. Adams Media, $24.95 (1-58062-937-7). 338.7. While business news teeters constantly between optimism and turmoil, it's good to hear that, in many parts of the world, the family business is as rock-solid as...

Stiglitz, Joseph E. The Roaring Nineties: a New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 416p. index. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05852-2). 330.973. Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and academic who served in the Clinton administration, reflects on his experiences in Washington and what he learned there. Among his many...

Grinspoon, David. Lonely Planets: the Natural Philosophy of Alien Life.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 464p. illus. index. Ecco, $25.95 (0-06-018540-6). 576.8. Astronomer and space advocate Grinspoon pulls Jots of facts, hypotheses, and beliefs together in this entertaining consideration of the likelihood of encountering...

* Fifty Years of Great Writing: Sports Illustrated, 1954-2004.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Ed. by Rob Fleder. Nov. 2003. 544p. Sports Illustrated, $25.95 (1-932273-06-9). 070.449796. Sports Illustrated set out to raise the bar for sports writing when it debuted in 1954. Longtime editor Andre Laguerre, who stepped down in 1976,...

Herd on the Street: Animal Stories from the Wall Street Journal.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Ed. by Ken Wells. Dec. 2003. 256p. Free Press/Wall Street Journal, paper, $14 (0-7432-5420-1). 590. When one thinks about the Wall Street Journal, one doesn't generally envision whimsical stories about animals. The paper, however, prides...

Rogers, Lesley J. and Kaplan, Gisela. Spirit of the Wild Dog: the World of Wolves, Coyotes, Foxes, Jackals & Dingoes.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 248p. illus. index. Allen & Unwin, paper, $15.95 (1-86508-673-8). 599.772. What makes a dog a dog? Rogers and Kaplan (Orangutans, 2000; Not Only Roars and Rituals, 1998) answer this question and others as they explore the...

Dyer, R. A. Hustler Days: Minnesota Fats, Wimpy Lassiter, Jersey Red, and America's Great Age of Pool.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 288p. illus. index. Lyons, $22.95 (1-59228-104-4). 794.73. Every great countercultural moment lives longer in analysis than in real time. Adding to a slow-growing canon, Dyer explores "America's second great age of pool"...

Bascomb, Neal. Higher: a Historic Race to the Sky and the Making of a City.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 352p. Doubleday, $26 (0-385-50660-0). 720. Though the desire to spike the landscape with ever-higher structures dates back millennia, skyscraper one-upmanship accelerated in the twentieth century. And while it continues today,...

Bell, Adrienne Baxter. George Inness and the Visionary Landscape.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 178p. illus. Braziller, $35 (0-8076-1525-0). 759.13. Inspired landscape painter George Inness (1825-94) was born in New York State's beautiful Hudson Valley and could easily have been part of the world-renowned Hudson River School....

Benson, Harry. Once There Was a Way ... Photographs of the Beatles.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 112p. illus. Abrams, $29.95 (0-8109-4643-2). 782.42166. Benson initially nixed schlepping to Paris to photograph a rock band. He preferred shooting breaking news. But his paper ordered him--and he got his most famous shot, of the...

Boorman, John. Adventures of a Suburban Boy.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 384p. illus. index. Faber and Faber, $27 (0-571-21695-1). 791.43. Considering how cerebral and idiosyncratic his films are, it is remarkable that Boorman has sustained a commercial career for nearly four decades, even if much of...

* Glanz, James and Lipton, Eric. City in the Sky: the Rise and Fall of the World Trade Center.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 432p. illus. index. Holt, $26 (0-8050-7428-7). 720. New York Times reporters Glanz (science) and Lipton (metropolitan news) briskly and lucidly tell the entire wrenching story of the genesis and destruction of the World Trade...

Caesar, Sid and Friedfeld, Eddy. Caesar's Hours: My Life in Comedy, with Love and Laughter.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 336p. illus. Public Affairs, $26 (1-58648-152-5). 791.45. Berle pioneered it, but Caesar was TV comedy's first king. He earned the crown. His family fostered learning music first and an imitative bent thereafter; as a child, he...

Coles, Robert. Bruce Springsteen's America: the People Listening, a Poet Singing.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 208p. illus. Random, $23.95 (0-375-50559-81). 782.42166. In an unusual pairing, famous child psychologist Coles pays homage to rock musician Springsteen. In two long essays that serve, in effect, as a foreword, Cotes quotes the...

* Gordon, Robert. Deborah Butterfield.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 180p. illus. Abrams, $50 (0-8109-4629-7). 730. Horses have been Butterfield's totem animal and endlessly evocative subject for several decades, and she has portrayed these regal creatures with the unlikeliest of materials--mud;...

Da Capo Best Music Writing 2003: the Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, & More.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Ed by Matt Groening and Paul Bresnick. Nov. 2003. 297p. Da Capo, paper, $15.95 (0-306-81236-3). 781.64. Like its predecessors, this edition of Da Capo's annual includes something from The Onion ("37 record-store clerks feared dead in Yo La...

De Oliveira, Nicolas and others. Installation Art in the New Millennium: the Empire of the Senses.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 208p. illus. index. Thames & Hudson, $50 (0-500-23808-1). 709. The term installation art describes a diverse array of provocative artworks that bring viewers inside an artist's creation rather than allowing them to stand...

Ertl, Rett and Hibberd, Rick. The Art of the Russian Matryoshka.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 240p. illus. index. Vernissage, $40 (0-9725027-1-8), 745.5922. Anyone who's ever enjoyed seeing or playing with a series of wooden nesting dolls--matryoshki in Russian--will gravitate instinctively to Ertl and Hibberd's lavishly...

Ettlinger, Marion. Author Photo: Portraits, 1983-2002.(Vienne, Veronique. Chip Kidd)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Ettlinger, Marion. Author Photo: Portraits, 1983-2002. Nov. 2003. 176p. illus. index. Simon & Schuster, $35 (0-7432-2734-4). 779. Vienne, Veronique. Chip Kidd 2003. 112p. illus. Yale, paper, $19.95 (0-300-09952-5). 741.6. Books can be...

Foray, Jean-Michel and others. Marc Chagall.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 224p. illus. Abrams, $60 (0-8109-4621-1). 709. Art lovers might think they know Chagall's work inside out, but a fresh look at this utterly original painter makes readers realize that perceptions of Chagall's achievements have...

Greenwald, Andy. Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 335p. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $14.95 (0-312-30863-9). 782.42166. No one has ever gone broke underestimating the American teenager's capacity for angst--until now, perhaps, when, as Greenwald documents, the major commercial...

Hohmuth, Jurgen. Labyrinths and Mazes, 2003.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 176p. illus. Prestel, $55 (3-7913-2922-7). 717. In a luxuriantly illustrated guide to labyrinths and mazes from 350 B.C.E. to the present, Hohmuth cites incarnations of this universal form in gardens, on coins, inside churches and other...

* Hartigan, Lynda Roscoe and Vine, Richard. Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay ... Eterniday.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 256p. illus. Thames & Hudson, $60 (0-500-97628-9). 709.2. The centennial of the birth of Joseph Cornell, one of the most original and continually revelatory artists of all time, is the occasion for publication of the most...

Khoury, George and others. The Extraordinary Works of Alan Moore.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 224p. illus. TwoMorrows, 1812 Park Dr., Raleigh, NC 27605, paper, $24.95 (1-893905-24-1). 741.5. Khoury marks Alan Moore's exalted status in the comics world on the occasion of Moore's fiftieth birthday. The centerpiece of the volume...

Pictures and music: a top 10 list.(Everything Was Possible: The Birth of the Musical Follies; Edouard Vuillard; Goya; Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling; Rudolf Serkin; The Art of Peter Max; A Sweeper Up after Artists: A Memoir; The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson; River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West; The Unknown Night: The Madness and Genius of R. A Blakelock, an American Painter)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
November 1, 2003... Although the arts include such necessarily cooperative, labor-intensive endeavors as architecture, theater, and cinema, it is likely that most people associate the arts first with making pictures and music. And making pictures or tunes happens...

Lees, Gene. Friends along the Way: a Journey through Jazz.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 334p. index. Yale, $35 (0-300-09967-3). 781.65. For 20-odd years, Lees, whose short tenure as Down Beat editor dragged it into the mid-twentieth century, has published the eight-page, monthly Gene Lees Jazzletter, The subscribers...

Loesser, Frank. The Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Ed. by Robert Kimball and Steve Nelson. Nov. 2003. 270p. illus. index. Knopf, $49.95 (0-679-45059-9). 782.421. The fifth of Kimball and Nelson's big, square, lavishly illustrated books full of the best American words ever set to music...

Mattison, Robert S. Robert Rauschenberg: Breaking Boundaries.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 288p. illus. index. Yale, $50 (0-300-09931-2). 700. Rauschenberg has been so prolific that few critics have a handle on his vast output or the sensibility and ideas behind it. Enter intrepid art historian Mattison, who observes...

Milano, Brett. Vinyl Junkies. Adventures in Record Collecting.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 240p. index. St. Martin's/Griffin, paper, $13.95 (0-312-30427-7). 780.26. Vinyl junkies are special. They hunt down Brazilian pressings of favorite artists, know the difference between vinyl and styrene, and call a 3,000-LP...

Morales, Ed. The Latin Beat: the Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music from Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 400p. index. Da Capo, paper, 516.95 (0-306-81018-2) 781.64. "Trying to define Latin music is like trying to define Latinos in the United States," says Village Voice scribe Morales. He believes it's helpful to consider which...

Nadler, Steven. Rembrandt's Jews.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 253p. illus. index. Univ. of Chicago, $25 (0-226-56736-2). 759.94. Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was home to a remarkable Jewish community unique in all of Europe, Nadler has made this intriguing world his specialty, first in...

* Reynolds, Nancy and McCormick, Malcolm. No Fixed Points: Dance in the Twentieth Century.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 896p. illus. index. Yale, $50 (0-300-09366-7). 729.8. Choreography fueled the big bang that gave form to twentieth-century dance, a universe of dazzling innovations, and choreographers are the stars of this vibrantly...

Naggar, Carole. George Rodger: an Adventure in Photography, 1908-1995.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 256p. illus. index. Syracuse Univ., $34.95 (0-8156-0762-8). 070.4. A cofounder of Magnum Photos, George Rodger had none of the flamboyance of his business partner, Robert Capa; accordingly, this biography has fewer women and...

Nichols, Peter M. The New York Times Essential Library: Children's Movies: a Critic's Guide to the Best Films Available on Video and DVD.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 320p. illus. index. Holt/Times, paper, $16 (0-8050-7198-9). 791.43. As in Ben Ratliff's guide to jazz in the same series [BKL N 1 02], there are some surprises among Nichols' choices of the 100 best films for children 12 and...

Schaffer, Kristen. Daniel H. Burnham: Visionary Architect and Planner.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Photos by Paul Rocheleau. 2003. 223p. Rizzoli, $95 (0-8478-2533-7). 720.9. A wag might remark that, as a visionary, architect, and city planner, Burnham looked east toward Europe and backward in time. Burnham masterminded Chicago's...

* Ross, Alex and Kidd, Chip. Mythology: the DC Comics Art of Alan Ross.(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 212p. illus. Pantheon, $35 (0-375-42240-4). 741.5. Ross is arguably comic books' only genuine superstar, whose artistic touch turns any title into a bestseller. His ultrarealistic, painted renditions of iconic superheroes--in which he...

Toker, Franklin. Fallingwater Rising: Frank Lloyd Wright, E. J. Kaufmann, and America's Most Extraordinary House.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... 2003. 544p. illus. index. Knopf, $35 (1-4000-4026-4). 728. Fallingwater, daringly cantilevered over a waterfall near Pittsburgh, may well be "the most famous private house in the world," as Toker asserts. Conceived and built in the years...

Walden, Sarah. Whistler and His Mother: an Unexpected Relationship: Secrets of an American Masterpiece.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 242p. illus. index. Univ. of Nebraska, $35 (0-8032-4811-3). 759.13. Walden restored Whistler's painting Arrangement in Grey and Black, and she's got some issues with the artist. Not with his life, nor with the women who managed...

Watson, Steven. Factory Made: Warhol and the Sixties.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 512p. illus. index. Pantheon, $27.50 (0-679-42372-9). 700. Watson has been exploring the dynamics of avant-garde circles, or "constellations" of creative people, in a series of generously illustrated volumes that deftly combine...

Stern, Gerald. What I Can't Bear Losing: Notes from a Life.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 256p. Norton, $24.95 (0-393-05818-2). 811. Readers familiar with National Book Award winner Stern's swinging, streetwise, and metaphysical poetry will find this collection of autobiographical and spiritual ramblings...

Agustini, Delmira. Selected Poetry of Delmira Agustini: Poetics of Eros.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Tr. by Alejandro Caceres. Nov. 2003. 224p. Southern Illinois Univ., $40 (0-8093-2537-3). 861. Born in Uruguay in 1886, Agustini published four books before her shocking death at 27. She was shot by her husband, who then shot himself; the...

Doggerel: Poems about Dogs.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
November 1, 2003... Ed. by Carmela Ciuraru. Nov. 2003. 256p. index. Knopf/Everyman's, $12.50 (1-4000-4037-X). 821.008. This charming book will expand the audience for poetry because its primary audience is neither poets nor poetry fans but dog lovers, who...

Lazic, Radmila. A Wake for the Living.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Tr. by Charles Simic. Nov. 2003. 104p. Graywolf, paper, $14 (1-55597-390-6). 891.8216. This collection of the startling, bold, assertively sexual work of one of Serbia's most prominent poets voices a theme rarely explored in literature,...

Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Ed. by Robert Hedin and Michael Waters. Nov. 2003. 240p. Southern Illinois Univ., $49.95 (0-8093-2530-6); paper, $12.95 (0-8093-2531-4). 808.81. Does boxing poetry get any better than Cassius Clay promising the crowd "a total eclipse of...

Martinez, Al. I'll Be Damned If I'll Die in Oakland: a Sort of Travel Memoir.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 240p. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $23 (0-312-29087-X). 910. Columnist for the "L.A. by God Times" Martinez got a lust for travel from his mother (who inspired this title) when he was young. So he and wife Cinelli, sometimes with...

Thomas, Nicholas. Cook: the Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 512p. illus. index. Walker, $28 (0-8027-1412-9). 910. Drawing on 20 years of research, Thomas recounts Captain James Cook's original three voyages in the 1770s. Thomas writes that his aim is to capture the sense of a particular...

Black, Conrad. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
November 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 1360p. illus PublicAffairs, $35 (1-58648-184-3). 973.917. Black is the CEO of newspaper publishing giant Hollinger International, Inc. He has written a massive, comprehensive, but frequently ponderous biography of the great FDR...