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Review | Playful gods mock earthlings at Godley estate in 'The Infinities'
THE INFINITIES. John Banville. Knopf. 288 pages. $25.95. Crafted as an homage to classic Greek drama, John Banville's latest novel takes place in the course of a single day and opens with the opulent line, ``Of all the things we fashioned for them thatmore
Review | 'Burning Bright': Ron Rash's Applachian tales
BURNING BRIGHT. Ron Rash. Ecco. 205 pages. $22.99. Modern sensibilities have inched into the lives of the people who inhabit Ron Rash's uneasy stories about Appalachia. They don't live exactly the way their great-grandfathers did. They drive big pickups.more
'The Routes of Man': the high adventure and deeper meaning of roads | Book review
As author Ted Conover entered the realm of book publishing, roads figured in his writing. Practicing high-risk participant journalism, he found roads (including railroads) that would take him across the United States of America so he could research hismore
Book review: Molotov's Magic Lantern
MOLOTOV'S MAGIC LANTERN BY RACHEL POLONSKYFaber, 416pp, £20 VYACHESLAV Molotov's initials are the same as the acronym for the death penalty in Russian, 'vysshaya mera', the 'highest measure'. Molotov, one of Stalin's most loyal – and certainlymore
Book review: From shrine to soapbox -by Reem Wasay
Mazaar, Bazaar: Design and Visual Culture in Pakistan Edited and designed by Saima Zaidi Oxford University Press; Pp 347 Seeing truly is believing when leafing through this mammoth collection of the images we are most associated with, those that havemore
Adventures on the High Teas by Stuart Maconie | Book review
An illuminating, fun and very readable attempt to pinpoint Middle England Going in search of "Middle England" is as much a staple of Middle England as all those spurious examples ? Marmite, hedgerows, the Spitfire ? that these very journeys aremore
Solar by Ian McEwan | Book review
Ian McEwan excels at climate science but his one-dimensional protagonist makes you shudder Solar is a sly, sardonic novel about a dislikable English physicist and philanderer named Michael Beard. He's a recognisable Ian McEwan type, a one-dimensional,more
Smile Though Your Heart is Breaking by Pauline Prescott | Book review
Pauline Prescott's story is one of remaining plucky and loyal through good times and bad. A national treasure, says Rachel Cooke It's easy to sneer at Pauline Prescott, to take the mickey out of her fondness for such things as cutting the crusts offmore
Mathilda Savitch by Victor Lodato | Book review
Kate Webb admires a first novel narrated by a pubescent girl battling for the truth Writerly ambition can take many forms. Martin Amis has taken on nuclear war, Stalin and the Nazis. Nabokov impersonated a paedophile. In Mathilda Savitch , his firstmore
Book review: Did You Really Shoot The Television? A Family Fable
Did You Really Shoot The Television? A Family Fable by Max Hastings Harper Press, 288pp, £20 IN 1993, Max Hastings's mother, Anne Scott-James, then aged 80, published an odd autobiography. Called Sketches from a Life, it was couched in the form ofmore
Book review: Molotov's Magic Lantern
MOLOTOV'S MAGIC LANTERN BY RACHEL POLONSKY Faber, 416pp, £20 VYACHESLAV Molotov's initials are the same as the acronym for the death penalty in Russian, 'vysshaya mera', the 'highest measure'. Molotov, one of Stalin's most loyalmore
Book review: Salvage
Salvageby Robert Edric Doubleday, 347pp, £16.99 'WHAT if?' is a good starting-point for a novel. 'What if,' Robert Edric asks us to suppose, 'the worst predictions of climate change are fulfilled?' What would England be like 50 or 100 years from now?more
Book review: A Game of Sorrows
A GAME OF SORROWS BY SHONA MACLEAN Quercus, 352pp, £12.99 AS WOLF HALL, Hilary Mantel's recent winner of the Man Booker prize attests, fiction, brilliantly elucidated, can sometimes be the place to go to understand history. Irish history, though, is amore
Book review: Chopin: Prince of the Romantics
CHOPIN: PRINCE OF THE ROMANTICS BY ADAM ZAMOYSKI Harper Press, 368pp, £12.99 THE bicentenary of Chopin's birth has more commercial potential than last year's more arbitrary celebration of Handel. Chopin died romantically young and had a ravishing lovemore
Book reviews: Brooklyn | One Day | Direct Red | Aftermath | American Adulterer
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Book reviews: The First Rule | Fear The Worst
THE FIRST RULEBy Robert Crais (Orion, £12.99) WHENEVER Robert Crais feels the need to refresh himself, he can always activate Joe Pike, a saturnine former soldier who performs id-like functions for Elvis Cole, the Hollywood private eye who is Crais'smore
Manhood for Amateurs by Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon's a great family man, but it's his mistakes that make these essays worth reading, says Michael Sayeau Despite his claims to the contrary, Michael Chabon clearly is a great dad. Early on in Manhood for Amateurs he writes that 'A father ismore
A Short History of Cahiers du cinéma by Emilie Bickerton
A study of the pioneering French film magazine documents its vast influence Cahiers du Cinéma, the world's best-known film magazine, is, according to Emilie Bickerton in her admirable history, 'limping on today as another banal mouthpiece of themore
61 Hours by Lee Child
Just when thriller addicts thought they had seen the last of the great heroes, Jack Reacher strikes again, writes Euan Ferguson From calm seas, Lee Child has snuck up, virtually unseen, to batter our defences at every turn. A few years ago hardly anyonemore
Book Reviews: Books on the Religious Right, Christian Right & Christian America
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Book Review: Essentials of Business Ethics: Creating an Organization of High Integrity and Superior Performance
· Fair Value Hedge Accounting · Auditing Under IFRS adequate to pay the ultimate total obliga- tions to employees. Companies are required Standards (SFAS) 158 to report the fund- ing status of DB plans, measured as the difference between the PBOmore
Book review: Susan Okie reviews "We've Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication," by Judith Warner
WE'VE GOT ISSUES Children and Parents in the Age of Medication By Judith Warner Riverhead 320 pp. $25.95 I opened Judith Warner's new book with a certain dread, fearing that I would have to slog through yet another polemic about the overuse of stimulantsmore
Three Kings - Book Review
Three Kings - The Rise of an American Empire in the Middle East After World War II. Lloyd C. Gardner. New Press, N.Y., 2009. This concisely written and well documented work covers the 'Truman Doctrine,' the essential rubric under which the United Statesmore
Review: In 'The Infinities,' John Banville creates a godly, transcendent world
In The Infinities, Irish novelist John Banville proves himself rather like the old gods who form part of the book's cast: protean, ruthless, luminously creative and not at all above low humor. The old gods ? the Greek pantheon, that is ? are having quitemore
Review: Halverson's 'Entirely Synthetic Fish' details the folly of manipulating the rainbow trout population
Who doesn't love the rainbow trout? Whether sauced in butter, sketched in pastel or stripping line from a flyrod in a Montana stream, the game little fish with the freckled skin and the rosy side-stripes has always been a poster child for Unspoiledmore