Booklist articles from October 2003

Booklist archives from October 2003

Corn, David C. The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 352p. index. Crown, $23 (1-4000-5066-9). 973.931. It's getting a little hard to find a book about George W. Bush that doesn't have the word lie in the title. First came Joe Conanson's Big Lies [BKL Ag 031, which was followed by...

* Hughes, Robert. Goya.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 480p. illus. index. Knopf, $40 (0-394-58028-1). 760. Australian-born Hughes, art critic for Time and the author of 10 acclaimed books, begins his expert and passionate interpretation of the life and work of the seminal artist...

Murray, Charles. Human Accomplishments: the Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950.(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 688p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $29.95 (0-06-019247-X). 908. Achievements that require mental and spiritual effort are the highest forms of human endeavor, Murray says. He has scanned the most reputable biographical...

Rule, Ann. Heart Full of Lies: a True Story of Desire and Death.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct 2003. 400p. Free Press, $26 (0-7432-0298-8). 364.1. Rule is the former Seattle cop whose next-phone neighbor on a suicide hot line was Ted Bundy; her wrenching account of how she slowly learned that the wonderful guy next to her was an...

Carter, Jimmy. The Hornet's Nest.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 480p. Simon & Schuster, $27 (0-7432-5542-9). Carter continues to have one of the most productive and varied post-political careers of any former U.S. president. A prodigious writer with 16 works of nonfiction to his credit,...

Cornwell, Bernard. Heretic.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 352p. HarperCollins, $24.95 (0-06-005304-9). Thomas of Hookton, English archer and illegitimate son of a disgraced French priest, returns in the third and final volume of Cornwell's best-selling Grail Quest series. As the Hundred...

Cornwell, Patricia. Blow Fly.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 480p. Putnam, $26.95 (0-399-15089-7). Kay Scarpetta fans will miss their favorite forensic pathologist in this new thriller, as Cornwell cedes much of the spotlight to other characters in the long-running series. Lucy, Kay's...

Ludlum, Robert. The Tristan Betrayal.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 560p. St. Martin's, $27.95 (0-312-31669-0). Ludlum, author of such best-sellers as The Bourne Identity, died on March 12, 2001. His output, however, has not slowed noticeably since his passing: this novel is the seventh published...

* Auster, Paul. Oracle Night.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 256p. Holt, $23 (0-8050-7320-5). Auster's approach to storytelling becomes more mystical, more intense, more labyrinthine, and more noir with each novel Like The Book of Illusions (2002), Auster's newest metaphysical fable...

Patterson, James. The Big Bad Wolf.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 400p. Little, Brown, $27.95 (0-316-60290-6). Alex Cross finally took the plunge at the end of Four Blind Mice (2002) and joined the FBI. The training is a little beneath Cross, who has spent years working with the FBI on the...

Tharp, Twyla. The Creative Habit: Learn It and Use It for Life.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p. illus. Simon & Schuster, $25 (0-7432-3526-6). 153.3. Creativity, says award-winning director/ choreographer Tharp, is not restricted to artists: anyone can harness and replenish creativity with routine and discipline....

Abuza, Zachary. Militant Islam in Southeast Asia: Crucible of Terror.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Dec. 2003. 275p. index. Lynne Rienner, $55 (1-58826-212-X); paper, $19.95 (1-58826-237-5). 303.6. The recent deadly bomb attacks against Indonesian targets frequented by Westerners make this a timely and important book. Abuza is assistant...

Bok, Francis and Tivnan, Edward. Escape from Slavery: the True Story of My Ten Years in Captivity--and My Journey to Freedom in America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003.304p. illus. St. Martin's, $24.95 (0-312-30623-7). 305.5. As a seven-year-old boy growing up in the southern Sudan, Bok was caught up in a raid on a regional market center when marauders from the north set upon the market,...

McGee, Glenn. Beyond Genetics: Putting the Power of DNA to Work in Your Life.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 240p. Morrow, $24.95 (0-06-000800-8). 306.4. Pitched to readers who take genetics personally, wondering what all those headlines about the Human Genome Project mean for my genome, McGee presents in effect an owner's manual. He...

Peck, Dale. What We Lost.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 240p. Houghton, $23 (0-618-25128-6). 306.87. Peck's account of his father Dale's horrific upbringing stuns the reader with its juxtaposition of hope, sadness, and loss. In 1956, Dale lives with seven siblings in a small house on...

Intellectual freedom begins at home.(The Manley Arts)(Supreme Court upholds law requiring use of Internet filtering software in libraries)(Editorial)
October 1, 2003... Among the flurry of Supreme Court decisions that were handed down at the end of the last session in early July was a ruling that received critical reaction from many librarians. The Supreme Court's decision upholding the right of the federal...

Semper Fi: Stories of the United States Marines from Boot Camp to Battle.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ed. By Clint Willis. Oct. 2003. 320p. Thunder's Mouth/Adrenaline, paper, $17.95 (1-56025504-8). 359.9. The Adrenaline anthology series marches on, literally, this time sampling U.S. Marines' experiences from World War I to the first Gulf...

Simon, Paul. Our Culture of Pandering.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 216p. Southern Illinois Univ., $25 (0-8093-2529-2). 320. Before joining the faculty of Southern Illinois University in 1997, Simon was a U.S. senator from Illinois. He posits that his book "is a call to alter our course, to...

Till-Mobley, Mamie and Benson, Christopher. Death of Innocence: the Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p. illus. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6117-2). 364.1. The mere mention of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old Chicago boy murdered in Mississippi in 1955, brings horrific memories for Americans. Till, on vacation in the south, was...

* Light, Michael. 100 Suns: 1945-1962.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 208p. illus. Knopf, $45 (1-4000-4113-9). 355.8. Light gathered together select NASA images to create the spellbinding Full Moon (1999), and now he presents that pleasurable volume's evil twin, a riveting collection of photographs...

Williams, Charles R. That Black Men Might Live: My Fight against Prostate Cancer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 208p. illus. Hilton, $25.95 10-9716067-5-7); paper, $16.95 (0-97160673-0) 362.1. Williams, a minister, promoter, and president of the Indiana Black Expo, was an admitted Type A personality, a workaholic loathe to slow down and...

Chadwick, Douglas H. True Grizz: Glimpses of Fernie, Stahr, Easy, Dakota, and Other Real Bears in the World.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 176p. illus. Sierra Club, $24.95 (1-57805-100-2). 599.784. How do you train a wild grizzly bear to stay away from humans and their pets, livestock, and crops? Humans have moved into the fringes of the wild countryside of...

Scientific American's Ask the Experts: Intrepid Travels through the Perplexing and Amazing World of Science.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 256p. HarperResource, paper, $14.95 (0-06-052336-0). 500. Here, for fans of popular-science writing, is a book that answers questions big, little, and in between, How long do stars live? (It depends on how fast they use up their...

Walters, Michael. A Concise History of Ornithology.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2003. 256p. illus, index. Yale, $30 (0-300-09073-0). 598.09. Walters aims this book at the reader who is knowledgeable about birds but may know nothing of their origin and history, and may not have heard of any of the people whose lives and...

Birkhead, Tim. A Brand-New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animal.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 288p, illus. index. Basic, $26 (0-465-00665-5). 636.6. The phrase "genetic engineering" conjures up images of test tubes, in vitro fertilization, and scientific laboratories. However, attempts at genetic engineering have been...

Brazaitis, Peter. You Belong in a Zoo! Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Creatures.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 368p. illus. Random, $24.95 (1-4000-6012-5). 636.088. What do you do if you are a rebellious teen whose stepmother, fed up with both your pet snakes and your attitude, tells you that you belong in a zoo? If it is 1954 and you...

Jeffers, H. Paul. Ace of Aces: the Life of Captain Eddie Rickenbacker.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 352p. Ballantine/Presidio, $24.95 (0-89141-791-5). 629.13092. Remembered as the American who destroyed the most enemy planes and balloons--26--during World War I, Eddie Rickenbacker tasted fame before the war as a race-car...

Masson, Jeffrey Moussaieff. The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: the Emotional World of Farm Animals.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 304p. index. Ballantine, $25.95 (0-345-45281-X). 636. Masson is a champion of the rights of animals to live their physical and emotional lives to the full, unfettered by human demands. He has written about wild animals (When...

Tarte, Bob. Enslaved by Ducks: How One Man Went from Head of the Household to Bottom of the Pecking Order.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 320p. Algonquin, $23.95 (1-56512-351-4). 636.088. In charting how he went from the head of the household to the bottom of the pecking order, columnist Tarte (who usually writes about world music for The Beat magazine) reveals...

Augustine and Wills, Garry. Saint Augustine's Sin.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 104p. Viking, $23.95 (0-670-03241-7), 270.2. The shortest to date of Wills' translations of and commentaries on the still-formidable fifth-century Father of the Church exerts perhaps the strongest pull on contemporary readers....

The Best Christian Writing, 2004.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ed. by John Wilson. Oct. 2003. 240p. Jossey-Bass, $15.95 (0-7879-6964-8). 230. Unaccountably skipping a year in its title (the third was dated 2002), the fourth edition of this annual challenges and entertains, at least once within the...

Borg, Marcus J. The Heart of Christianity: Rediscovering a Life of Faith.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $22.95 (0-06-052676-9). 230 Christianity appears to be at a crossroads, and religious historian Borg draws a distinction between what he calls an emerging paradigm and an earlier paradigm. The...

Evensen, Bruce J. God's Man for the Gilded Age: D. L. Moody and the Rise of Modern Mass Evangelism.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p illus. index. Oxford, $27.50 (0-19-516244-7). 269. More than 75 years before Billy Graham captured huge audiences in his worldwide crusades, a barely literate boot salesman named D. L. Moody pioneered the strategies...

Gaither, Bill and Abraham, Ken. It's More Than the Music: Life Lessons for Loving God, Loving Each Other.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p, illus. Warner/Faith, $19.95 (0-446-53041-7). 782.85 Christian music's elder statesman has amassed some 600 songs, some 40 albums, and three Grammys: not bad for a boy from Alexandria, Indiana (still his home), who dreamed...

* Curry, Neil. The Road to the Gunpowder House.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003.86p. Enitharmon; dist. by Dufour, paper, $17.95 (1-900564-28-9). 821. Like the American poet Henry Taylor, Curry doesn't rush to publish; this is his first collection in 10 years. Like Taylor's collections, which appear every I0...

Christian fiction.(Spotlight On Religion)(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Allen, Nan Corbitt. Asylum. Jan. 2004. 288p. Moody, paper, $11.99 (0-8024-1117-7). YA * Carlson, Melody. Finding Alice. Sept. 2003 256p. WaterBrook, paper, $11.99 (1-57856-573-1). YA Dekker, Ted. Three. June 2003. 400p W Publishing...

Top 10 Christian novels.(Spotlight On Religion)(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
October 1, 2003... As Christian fiction grows in popularity, its absorption into the mainstream becomes more and more noticeable You can find LaHaye and Jenkins' Left Behind series at Wal-Mart these days. Alternately, Christian fiction is routinely published now...

Greeley, Andrew M. The Great Mysteries: Experiencing Catholic Faith from the Inside Out.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct, 2003 158p. Sheed & Ward, $18.95 (1-58051-131-7). 230. Although literary critics have often roundly disparaged his best-selling fiction, few religious scholars have been able to distill the often-arcane mysteries of Catholicism with the...

Harrison, Kathryn. The Road to Santiago.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003 168p. National Geographic Directions, $20 (0-7922-3745-5). 818. On the first night of their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain, Harrison and her daughter checked into a picturesque hotel. Overcome by the...

Hotaling, Ed. Islam without Illusions: Its Past, Its Present, and Its Challenge for the Future.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 216p. illus. index. Syracuse Univ., $24.95 (0-8156-0766-0). 297. Few books acknowledge the complexity of the contemporary Islamic world. Hotaling, who has spent decades covering the Islamic world as a journalist, manages to...

Huston, Paula. The Holy Way: Practices for a Simple Life.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 350p. index. Loyola, paper, $15.95 (0-8294-1441-X). 248.46 Huston begins with an anecdote about visiting the Amish of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, who she believes hold the secret to the simple life The book that follows constitutes...

John Paul II: a Light for the World.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Ed. by Mary Ann Walsh. Oct. 2003. 256p. illus. Sheed & Ward, $35 (1-58051-142-2). 282. Issued by the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of the current pontificate, this commemorative collection of...

Top 10 books in religion.(Spotlight On Religion)(Book Review)(Brief Review)
October 1, 2003... Booklist's 10 best-reviewed books about religion and spirituality during the previous 12 months are predominantly books concerned with telling the truth, whether it be about the writers' personal experiences of the faiths they hold or about...

Maria Sabina. Maria Sabina: Selections.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Ed. by Jerome Rothenberg. Oct. 2003, 228p illus. Univ of California, $50 (0-520-23360-3); paper $16.95 (0-520-23953-9). 299. A few centuries ago, Maria Sabina would have lived, performed her healing work, and died in the Oaxacan hills of...

Neumark, Heidi B. Breathing Space: a Spiritual Journey in the South Bronx.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003, 304p. Beacon, $26 (0-8070-7256-7). 284.1. Although a white woman of privilege, Neumark spent nearly 20 years ministering in the South Bronx to an exclusively Hispanic and African American Lutheran congregation that considered a...

Oldstone-Moore, Jennifer. Taoism: Origins, Beliefs, Practices, Holy Texts, Sacred Places.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003, 112p illus. index. Oxford, $17.95 (0-19-521933-3). 299. This entry in Oxford's series of small, brief, attractive overviews of world religions faces a particular challenge, that of discussing a religion with unabashedly enigmatic...

* Oppenheimer, Mark. Knocking on Heaven's Door: American Religion in the Age of Counterculture.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 304p. illus. index. Yale, $30 (0-300-10024-8). 200. Much hyped by the media, the cults and communes of the 1960s--with their exotic farragoes of sex, drugs, and Zen mysticism--never merited the attention they received. So argues...

Perry, Paul. Jesus in Egypt: Discovering the Secrets of Christ's Childhood Years.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 288p. illus. Ballantine, $24.95 (0-34545145-7). 232.92. Despite the existence of only a few verses in one gospel claiming that the Holy Family fled to Egypt, Perry decided to retrace Jesus' steps on this alleged sojourn. The...

Pujo, Bernard. Vincent de Paul, the Trailblazer.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Tr. by Gertrud Granbart Champe. Nov. 2003. 352p. index. Univ. of Notre Dame, $40 (0-268-04361-2). 271. Pujo has penned a fascinating biography of one of the most proactive saints in Roman Catholic history. Rather than opting for a life of...

* Rubenstein, Richard E. Aristotle's Children: How Muslims, Christians, and Jews Rediscovered Ancient Wisdom and Illuminated the Dark Ages.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 384p. index. Harcourt, $27 (0-15-100720-9). 189. In today's sterile disputes between dogmatic religionists and chop-logic rationalists, political scientist Rubenstein sees evidence of cultural amnesia: we have forgotten how the...

Reppert, Victor. C. S. Lewis's Dangerous Idea: in Defense of the Argument from Reason.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003 132p InterVarsity, paper, $13 (0-8308-2732-3). 212. An alternative title for this book might be Gunfight at the I'm-OK Corral, a Shoot-out: Darwin and the Materialists versus C. S. Lewis and the Theists. And for philosopher...

Schaefer, Linda. Come and See: a Photojournalist's Journey into the World of Mother Teresa.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003, 160p illus. DC, $29.95 (1-932021-08-6). 271.9. Despite the carping of British socialist Christopher Hitchens, most people consider the ministry of the late Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity to the orphans, lepers, and...

* Zahl, Paul F. M. The First Christian: Universal Truth in the Teachings of Jesus.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct.2003. 144p. index. Eerdmans, paper, $16 (0-8028-2110-3). 230. Pastor and theologian Zahl wants to restart the quest for the historical Jesus. Not the one just winding down, typified by the ranking of Jesus' sayings for authenticity and...

Sifton, Elisabeth. The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 288p. Norton, $24.95 (0-39305746-1). 242. The daughter of the great Protestant cleric and intellectual Reinhold Niebuhr, Sifton explores the historical tensions surrounding her father's most lapidary and aphoristic devotional...

Standing in the Need of Prayer: a Celebration of African-American Prayer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 268p. illus. Free Press, $27.50 (0-7432-3466-9). 291.4. From New York's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture comes a collection of prayers from the U,S., Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean that reflects the...

Vryhof, Steven C. Between Memory and Vision: the Case for Faith-Based Schooling.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 188p, Eerdmans, paper, $22 (0-8028-4932-6). 371.071. A good school, Vryhof says, supports a community whose people share values that inspire what they are doing (a mission) and where they are going (a vision). The three...

Gregory, Julie. Sickened: the Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct 2003. 244p. Bantam, $24.95 (0-55-80307-7). 616.85. In the early 1950s, Munchausen syndrome emerged as a new mental illness. Named for an eighteenth-century baron who told wildly embellished tales, the illness describes people who invent...

Paterson, Allen. Best Trees for Your Garden.(Prendergast, Daniel and Prendergast, Erin. The Tree Doctor: A Guide to Tree Care and Maintenance)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Paterson, Allen. Best Trees for Your Garden. Sept. 2003. 208p. illus. index. Firefly, $39.95 (1-55297-770-5); paper, $24.95 (1-55297-769-2). 635.9. Prendergast, Daniel and Prendergast, Erin. The Tree Doctor: A Guide to Tree Care and...

* Chapin, Ted. Everything Was Possible: the Birth of the Musical Follies.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 368p. illus. Knopf, $30 (0-375-41328-6). 792.6. It's a pity, but most of the planning and preparation of a play or musical becomes lost. Sure, some artifacts survive: costume sketches, set models, props, programs, fawning...

Taylor's Encyclopedia of Garden Plants.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ed. by Frances Tenenbaum. Nov. 2003. 464p. illus, index. Houghton, $45 (0-61822644-3). 635.9. Positioned as the only plant encyclopedia intended solely for the American gardener, Taylor's directory encompasses more than one thousand trees,...

Cook, Peter. Tragically I Was an Only Twin: the Complete Peter Cook.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ed. by William Cook. Nov. 2003. 448p. illus. St. Martin's, $27.95 (0-312-31891-X). 792.23. Though a naturally gifted clown, Cook (1937--95) remains overshadowed by the much more successful Dudley Moore (1935--2002) and the other members of...

Curtis, Gregory. Disarmed: the Story of Venus de Milo.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 288p. illus. index. Knopf, $24 (0-375-41523-8). 733. The Venus de Milo receives throngs of admirers every day in the Louvre, her white marble luminescent, her pose enigmatic since no one knows the position her missing arms once...

Fitz-Simon, Christopher. The Abbey Theatre: Ireland's National Theatre, the First 100 Years.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 208p. illus. index. Thames and Hudson, paper, $27.50 (0-50028426-1). 792. Yeats, Lady Gregory, O'Casey: the early, glory days of the Abbey Theatre are the stuff of theatrical history, and although many revolutionary ideas...

Frank Miller.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ed. by Milo George. 2003. 132p. illus. Fantagraphics, paper, $18.95 (1-56097-528-8). 741.5 Already a superstar in the comics world because of his noirish work on Daredevil, Frank Miller brought contemporary excitement to the nearly...

* Johnson, Paul. Art: a New History.(Young Adult Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 792p. illus. index. HarperCollins, $39.95 (0-06-053075-8). 709. Johnson, an eminent, versatile, and opinionated historian, is also a successful painter, and he now indulges his lifelong passion for art in a gorgeously...

Fritz Lang: Interviews.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ed. by Barry Keith Grant. Oct. 2003. 240p. Univ. Press of Mississippi, $46 (1-57806-576-3); paper, $18 (1-57806-577-1). 791.43. Lang is best known for the silent German films, especially Metropolis, that he directed between the world wars,...

Fyfe, Andy. When the Levee Breaks: the Making of Led Zeppelin IV.(Leaf, David and Sharp, Ken. Kiss: Behind the Mask)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 224p. illus. index. Chicago Review, paper, $14.95 (1-55652-508-7). 781.42166. Leaf, David and Sharp, Ken. Kiss: Behind the Mask. Oct. 2003. 448p. illus. index. Warner, $27.95 (0-446-53073-5). 782.42166. Fyfe dissects the...

* Silcox, David P. The Group of Seven and Tom Thomson.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 444p. illus. index. Firefly, $85 (1-55297-605-X). 759.11. The circle of gifted and zealous Canadian painters that dubbed itself the Group of Seven in Toronto in 1920 after working together a good dozen years would have been the...

Jones, Louisa. Reinventing the Garden: Chaumont--Global Inspirations from the Loire.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 192p. illus. index. Thames and Hudson, $45 (0-500-51133-0). 712.609. Since its debut in 1992, the annual festival of Chaumont-sur-Loire has led the way with adventurous, visually exciting renditions of the garden as art form,...

McGilligan, Patrick. Alfred Hitchcock: a Life in Darkness and Light.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 832p. illus. index. Regan, $37.50 (0-06-039322-X). 791.43. The author of the useful George Cukor (1991) and Fritz Lang (1997), biographies of film directors less documented than Hitchcock, now turns to that perhaps...

Sandler, Irving. A Sweeper Up after Artists: a Memoir.(Brief Article)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 384p. illus. index. Thames and Hudson, $29,95 (0-500-23813-8). 709. The title of distinguished art critic Sandler's piquantly conversational memoir is from a poem by Frank O'Hara and provides a clue to Sandler's candid and...

Stromberg, Fredrik. Black Images in the Comics: a Visual History.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2003.264p. illus. index. Fantagraphics, $15.95 (1-56097-546-6). 741.5. As this small but potent book shows, African Americans didn't fare any better in the comics medium than elsewhere in popular culture. Stromberg's compact cultural...

Waal, Frans de. My Family Album: Thirty Years of Primate Photography.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 174p. illus. Univ. of California, $29.95 (0-520-23615-7). 779. The primatologist whose work has helped revolutionize ideas about culture and human kinship to the apes is a man of feeling, and he calls his pick of the thousands...

Wondrich, David. Stomp and Swerve: American Music Gets Hot, 1843-1924.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 256p. illus. index. Chicago Review, paper, $17.95 (1-55652-496-X). 781.64. Hot American music, says Wondrich, has drive and swerve. Drive is the strong rhythmic component that gets the feet stomping, Swerve is the spontaneous...

Issett, Ruth. Glorious Papers: Techniques for Applying Colour to Paper.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2003. 112p. illus. index. Batsford; dist. by Sterling, $21.95 (0-7134-8669-4). 745.54. It's hard to decide whether Issett's second book (her first being Colour on Paper and Fabric,1998) is intended more as inspiration or as down-to-earth...

Quinn, Bradley. Chinese Style: the Art of Living.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2003. 192p. illus. index. Conran; dist. by Sterling, $34.95 (1-84091-275-8). 747.2951. Journalist Quinn, with visual assistance from photographer Jan Baldwin, captures the essence of Chinese design in a book destined to belong in...

Shi Bo. Between Heaven and Earth: a History of Chinese Writing.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 128p. illus. Shambhala, paper, $17.95 (1-59030-050-5). 745.6. Shi Bo has organized calligraphy expositions in Bejing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong and has taught the art of Chinese writing internationally. By approaching calligraphy...

Vanessa-Ann. Greeting Cards for the First Time.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... 2003. 112p. illus. index. Sterling/ Chapelle, $19.95 (1-4027-0346-5). 746.44. In a workable format, a series of questions is posed and answers given that instruct and entertain about a specific craft and its techniques--again, from...

Coffey, Maria. Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow: the Dark Side of Extreme Adventure.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 288p. St. Martin's, $23.95 (0-312-29065-9). 796.52. Mountaineering enthusiasts of all varieties (from hands-on adventurers to armchair climbers) will see another side of their favorite sport in this poignant book. Instead of...

Dent, Jim. Monster of the Midway: the Life and Legend of Bronko Nagurski.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 320p. illus. St. Martin's/Thomas Dunne, $24.95 (0-312-30867-1). 796.332. Bronko Nagurski is arguably the best name ever for a football player. Or maybe it just seems that way now, because we associate the name with the...

Niven, Larry. Scatterbrain.(Brief Article)(Book Review)(Young Adult Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 317p Tor, $24.95 (0-765-30137-7). 823. The title appropriately describes the book, and Niven claims it also describes him, at least when he is creating mental playgrounds. Certainly, this is as eclectic a volume as Niven has ever...

Oates, Joyce Carol. The Faith of a Writer.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Oct. 2003. 240p. Ecco, $21.95 (0-06-056553-5). 814. Few can match Oates in the breadth, depth, and passion of her literary experiences and expertise. In her newest and most confiding essay collection, she generously shares the private side...

Thomson, Ian. Primo Levi.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Nov. 2003. 608p. illus. index. Holt/Metropolitan, $32.50 (0-8050-7343-4). 853. Levi's books are landmark accounts of the Holocaust experience and the enduring questions of guilt and survival. But this is very much the biography of an...

Twain, Mark. Is He Dead?(Brief Article)(Book Review)
October 1, 2003... Ed. by Shelley Fisher Fishkin. Oct. 2003. 234p. illus. Univ. of California, $24.95 (0-520-23979-2). 812. The theater was the acme of pop-cultural aspiration in the nineteenth century, and few writers pursued peak popularity more ardently...