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Books About the JFK Assassination, Fifty Years Later
Why is it that millions who were not even alive on November 22, 1963, are still fascinated by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy?
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Movies on the Rocks? Movie Tie-ins Fall 2013
Maybe it’s just as well that the summer movie season is winding down, as several recent films—blockbusters that weren’t—are taking heat in more ways than one.
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Fall 2013 Audiobook Listings: Falling into Audiobooks
Audiobook production is on the rise. From 2007 to 2011, the number of new titles produced showed a whopping 135% jump.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Science - Minds & Particles: A Detective Story
A noticeable thread runs through this fall’s science titles, connecting books on astrophysics, particle physics, and paleolithic art while addressing ongoing interest in the origins of human consciousness.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Travel - A Slow Boat to China...
...or anywhere else for that matter.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror - Growth Spurts
Debut author Drew Karpyshyn kicks things off with Children of Fire, a fantasy epic that incorporates elements of horror and operatic drama.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Politics - A Good Government Is Hard to Find
Fall’s political titles tackle government surveillance, American soldiers, political legacies, and hunting and being hunted.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Mysteries & Thrillers - Female Kidnapping Victims
Kidnapping features in several impressive thrillers, led by French author Pierre Lemaitre’s Alex, his first novel to be translated into English and the first in his Commandant Camille Verhoeven trilogy.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Sports - Stars and Controversy
Sports consciousness in America (and elsewhere) is a mix of hero worship, obsession about winning, nostalgia for the past, and disputation about the future. This season’s sports books represent that vividly.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Social Sciences - Smorgasbord
Two sure-to-be-talked-about books on the urban experience are from polar opposite points of view.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Romance & Erotica - Occupy Romance
Forget the tired old clichés of ripped bodices and brooding hunks.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Poetry - Little Books, Big Stakes
This fall promises a fine harvest of new poetry, including many new collections from poets we’ve been waiting to hear from for years.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Performing Arts - That’s Entertainment!
From the latest TV ratings, the timeliest theater reviews and last week’s movie box-office grosses, fans of all stripes can handily satisfy their cravings. As the following entries indicate, there’s no business like show business, indeed.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Art - The Stories of Art
It’s the scholar’s task, claimed H.W. Janson, “to doubt what has been taken for granted.”
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Music - A Return to the Classic(al)
Last year, Paul Elie, in Reinventing Bach, placed the German composer in a 20th-century light.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Memoir - We Are Family
When we remember, we look back, but memoirs, while commonly exercises in navel gazing, can also hand over a wide landscape as well as that small point of pain or epiphany or, hopefully, light.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Literary Biographies, Essays & Criticism - The Boys Are Back in Town
Gender parity in review coverage, bylines, and awards is a constant topic of conversation in the literary community, fueled by sites like VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, and controversies like PW’s recent kerfuffle with Claire Messud.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Lifestyle - Sacred Cows and Other Tips
Where’s the envy button? Not only do French women not get fat, they also age well—presumably like French wine and cheese.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: History - Wartime All the Time
With the war in Afghanistan nearing its 12th year, some have begun to opine that being at war is the new norm.
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Fall 2013 Announcements: Fiction - Return to Bountiful
The rest of this year and the beginning of the next, readers will hear from an abundance of literary superstars—Atwood, Banks, Harrison, Gurganus among them.