"History is a living horse laughing at a wooden horse. History is a wind blowing where it listeth. History is no sure thing to bet on. History is a box of tricks with a lost key. History is a labyrinth of doors with sliding panels, a book of ciphers with the code in a cave of the Saragossa sea. History says, if it pleases, Excuse me, I beg your pardon, it will never happen again if I can help it."
—Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) American writer known for free verse, Smoke and Steel
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Books of The Times: Sean Wilentz’s History ‘Bob Dylan in America’
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 09:00:08 GMT
Sean Wilentz’s “Bob Dylan in America” touchingly conveys its author’s nearly lifelong reverence for his subject.
 
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A Writer’s Long Journey to Trace the Great Migration
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:07:43 GMT
“The Warmth of Other Suns,” Isabel Wilkerson’s book about the Great Migration of blacks in America, took 15 years and much hands-on research to finish.
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Thomas Guinzburg, Paris Review Co-Founder, Dies at 84
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:10:27 GMT
Mr. Guinzburg was an editor and publisher who helped create The Paris Review and who later led Viking Press.
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Books of The Times: At This School, Misfits Make Up the Student Body
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 10:00:03 GMT
“Skippy Dies” by Paul Murray has a lot on its mind: M-theory, lost youth, Irish history and parallel dimensions, not to mention sex, drugs and schoolboy humor.
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Currents | Q&A: The Father of Modern Architectural Minimalism
Thu, 09 Sep 2010 20:19:01 GMT
Questions for the British architect John Pawson, who has a new monograph out next month.
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Elizabeth Jenkins, Woman of Letters, Dies at 104
Fri, 10 Sep 2010 06:30:04 GMT
In novels and biographies, Ms. Jenkins looked at lives with a psychological dimension.
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Books of The Times: Many Kinds of Universes, and None Require God
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 18:26:51 GMT
Stephen Hawking’s pop-science book about the origins of our universe got attention for a passage about God.
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Books of The Times: How Colombia Meets America, but Not Quite
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:46:07 GMT
In “Vida,” Patricia Engel’s world is caught between Colombia and the United States, and truly at home in neither.
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Beach Reads Finished, It’s Time for the Big Books
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:10:11 GMT
Publishing’s fall schedule includes books by Bob Woodward, Keith Richards, George W. Bush and Jon Stewart.
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Dark Mysteries, Written From a Bright Beach
Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:23:20 GMT
The British novelist Colin Cotterill, who lives on a Thai beach, stands apart from his books’ setting, the Communist Laos of the 1970s.
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Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man’s Bucolic Idyll
Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:04 GMT
Existential concepts like authenticity and selfhood, and people’s ability or inability to apprehend reality, lie at the heart of Tom McCarthy’s disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel.
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Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:41:11 GMT
A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.
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Book Sets Off Immigration Debate in Germany
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:30:57 GMT
Thilo Sarrazin, a former official who has been criticized as espousing racist views, has set off a discussion about Germany’s immigration policy.
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Books of The Times: At the Center of the Storm, but Still a Mystery
Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:36:52 GMT
Tony Blair’s memoir, “A Journey,” sheds little light on his political vision or on why he took Britain to war against Iraq.
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Books of The Times: Young Man Seeks Poetry in World War II’s Ruins
Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:30:04 GMT
A British author links his grandfather’s World War II bombing missions to the war poetry of the time.
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