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"The Scenic Route: A Novel" by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Reviewed by Carolyn Kellogg
A woman recounts her summer romance hopping about Europe with her married lover.
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JACKET COPY
A sneak peek at Maile Meloy's short story collection.
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An exploration of themes in children's literature has big ambition, and draws some odd conclusions.
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BOOK REVIEW
Decoding the man, who fought injustice but was ensnared in scandal, isn't so easy.
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The author looks at the evolution of food. It's history you can sink your teeth into. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The 'mad, bad' and simply irresistible poet and lover. >>
The hit songwriters look back on their 50-year partnership in 'Hound Dog: The Leiber and Stoller Autobiography.' >>
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Michael Shapiro's almost too-inside account of Rickey's innovative but ultimately doomed bid to overhaul the sport in 1958-60. >>
In 'Crazy for the Storm,' the writer recalls how he learned to 'dance' with fear from an adrenaline-seeking dad taken too soon. >>
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This history of American popular music culminates with the splintering of music culture by the Fab Four. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A cultural exploration of America's rise from the rubble of the Civil War and its transformation into a modern nation in the early 20th century. >>
COLUMN ONE
Years after 'Gatsby,' F. Scott Fitzgerald's secretary got to witness the second act of an author who didn't believe in them. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A journalist finds a small-town nightmare of rampant drug use and ruined lives, a nightmare that has spread across rural America. >>
BOOK REVIEW
In the novel, a writer tries to tell a tale of romance in spite of, and sometimes with inspiration from, the censor. >>
CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK
Excitement over innovative new publishing concepts is tempered by the unmistakable signs of companies in retrenchment mode or absent altogether from the annual trade show. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The author brings back Leo Demidov, the hero from last year's 'Child 44,' but with far less satisfying results in this labored would-be thriller. >>
BOOK REVIEW
The author brings wit and humor to the story of a group of friends in post-2001 America looking back on their activist ways in the 1960s. >>
AUTHORS
The writer-filmmaker is shopping a sprawling work of historical fiction, but no big publishers are buying. Such is the cautious state of publishing today. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Call it a love letter to the diversity, polyglot sprawl, complexities, contradictions, pitfalls, humanity and streetlife of the metropolis. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A well-written but shallow portrait of Hollywood. >>
BOOK REVIEW
A former legislator in Nelson Mandela's African National Congress recalls its heady early days and the crushing disappointment that followed in this heartfelt, hopeful memoir. >>
BOOK REVIEW
Nimbly translated from its original German, this bizarre mystery-thriller manages to come together winningly in the end. >>
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