Saturday, March 28, 2015

The New York Timees Sunday Book reviews

'The Folded Clock'

By HEIDI JULAVITS
Reviewed by EULA BISS
Time loops and circles forward in the essays that make up Heidi Julavits's diary.
T. C. Boyle

T. C. Boyle: By the Book

The author, most recently, of "The Harder They Come" is mad about nature writing: "I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants."
·         By the Book: Archive

'Hausfrau'

By JILL ALEXANDER ESSBAUM
Reviewed by ELISA ALBERT
The troubled heroine of this debut novel strays from her stable Zurich fold.
Thomas McGuane

'Crow Fair'

By THOMAS MCGUANE
Reviewed by ATTICUS LISH
Thomas McGuane's story collection, his first in nine years, returns to the untamed spaces of his native Montana.
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman in May 1865, wearing a mourning ribbon for President Lincoln.

'Sherman's Ghosts'

By MATTHEW CARR
Reviewed by JAMES M. McPHERSON
A journalist assesses claims about Sherman's March, and considers its later effects.

'Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be' and 'The End of College'

By SCOTT A. SANDAGE
How to stay sane about college admissions, and how to make education more accessible.
Alejandro Zambra

'My Documents'

By ALEJANDRO ZAMBRA. Translated by MEGAN McDOWELL.
Reviewed by NATASHA WIMMER
Alejandro Zambra's stories draw from the age of computers and the legacy of Pinochet.

'Leaving Berlin'

By JOSEPH KANON
Reviewed by JOSHUA HAMMER
In Joseph Kanon's thriller, a German-born American writer becomes a spy in Cold War East Berlin.
The Rev. Richard John Neuhaus

'Richard John Neuhaus: A Life in the Public Square'

By RANDY BOYAGODA
Reviewed by DANIEL McCARTHY

A biography of the Rev. Richard John Neuhaus, an intellectual maverick of 20th-century Roman Catholicism.

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