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This first novel traces the lives of two friends, Robbie and Maize, from high school to their first post-college year. Sassone focusses on discrete episodes in the lives of his characters: Maize’s deflowering by a college interviewer; Robbie’s trip to Rome to visit his father . . . (Subscription required.)... Darwin, the capital of Australia’s Northern Territory, is more than a thousand miles northwest of the country’s largest banana plantations, which are centered around Innisfail, on the eastern seaboard. A ramshackle place, Darwin is known for its many impoverished indigenous residents, entertainment attractions like Crocosaurus Cove . . . (Subscription required.)... In this mischievous novel, Lively traces the genealogy of randomness that messes up the lives of strangers. A mugging on a London street ripples out into an interconnected urban universe, shaking marriages and ruining businesses. A retired teacher moves in with her daughter to convalesce, the daughter’s employer . . . (Subscription required.)... Introduction: In the book "The Books behind Methuselah" I have looked into may issues that have bothered me about man's existence on earth, such as: the rise of man, his encounter with Giants, the Nephilim, and the Old Ones known as the Shinning Ones (or other aliens), and from the Bible and other sources I've also looked at personages, such as Adam, and Melchizedek, Darwin, Methuselah,... Introduction: In the book "The Books behind Methuselah" I have looked into may issues that have bothered me about man's existence on earth, such as: the rise of man, his encounter with Giants, the Nephilim, and the Old Ones known as the Shinning Ones (or other aliens), and from the Bible and other sources I've also looked at personages, such as Adam, and Melchizedek, Darwin, Methuselah,... Crowley, a historian of Mediterranean conflicts, offers a brisk account of the rise of the Venetian Republic, which in the Middle Ages was “a shifting, supple matrix of interchanging locations, flexible as a steel net.” Venice’s power, at its height, extended along both shores of the . . . (Subscription required.)... This short, engaging book provides historical and intellectual contexts for one of the world’s most famous drawings, Leonardo’s “Vitruvian Man,” in which a male figure is inscribed in both a circle and a square. Lester traces the conceptual origins of the drawing back to . . . (Subscription required.)... Extremely ticklish feet are not that uncommon, but no one really knows why. Physiologists, psychologists, sociologists and great thinkers like Plato and Galileo have all tried to explain the tickle response. Darwin tried to figure out what purpose the tickle response serves from an evolutionary standpoint.... This début novel, set in the open spaces of the Southwest in an indeterminate modern age, traces the disappointments and betrayals of a young woman’s first year of marriage. Katherine’s feckless mother and absent father leave her ill-equipped to refuse a quick union . . . (Subscription required.)... Crummey’s expansive yarn begins mysteriously, when a mute albino is pulled from the belly of a whale, and ends when the albino’s descendant, several generations later, plunges into one. Between lies the folkloric history of Paradise Deep, a Newfoundland fishing community composed of “implacable barrens . . . (Subscription required.)... In Patchett’s emotionally lucid novel, Marina Singh, a scientific researcher, travels to the Amazonian jungle to find out how a friend and colleague died there. She must also complete her dead colleague’s assignment: persuade Annick Swenson, a brilliant scientist and Singh’s medical-school mentor . . . (Subscription required.)... Solnit’s expansive argument about human resilience and community in times of crisis is bookended by accounts of two of the greatest natural disasters in American history: the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 and Hurricane Katrina. In both, the instinctive altruism and resourcefulness of local communities was . . .... This spirited panoramic survey examines our relationship to the sun, approaching the subject from almost every conceivable angle. Cohen is cheerfully digressive, covering topics such as nudism, quantum theory, albinos, the rise of khaki uniforms, vampires, seasonal affective disorder, life at the bottom of the sea, and the curiously worded . . . (Subscription required.)... Emphasizing the imagination’s power to “make bearable things too ugly to confront directly,” Spurling sensitively traces the biographical background of Buck’s writing. Buck, the daughter of missionaries, spent nearly all of the first forty-two years of her life in China, and her childhood . . .... Finkel’s sad and wonderful account of soldiers’ experiences of war follows the 2nd Battalion, 16th Infantry, which was thrown into one of Baghdad’s worst districts as part of the 2007 surge. The average age of its eight hundred soldiers was nineteen. Finkel, who spent eight . . .... John Rawls’s “A Theory of Justice,” published in 1971, has cast a long shadow over modern political philosophy. Sen’s stimulating and eloquent new work is in some ways a commentary on Rawls, but its refinements give his arguments greater applicability. Rawls was a devotee . . .... In this wintry fable, Ida Maclaird finds her feet crystallizing into glass, and she travels to the archipelago of St. Hauda’s Land in search of an enigmatic hermit who she believes can cure her. St. Hauda’s, “a wilderness of recluses,” hides miniature moth-winged . . .... paragraph class="noindent">It is firmly established on the Web site for the Beagle, an East Village restaurant and cocktail bar, that the place “is not named after the dog.” Lovers of the breed may find their crests falling; lovers of evolutionary theory, meanwhile, will be charmed by . . .... This gorgeously strange picture book, the first in a projected series, traces the origins of the Man in the Moon, who, after losing his parents in a battle with the King of Nightmares, is raised by a retinue of giant glowworms and mice in tasselled sailor caps. Joyce’s . . . (Subscription required.)... If you are a woman, doctors seem to take symptoms much more seriously when accompanied by a male advocate. A close male associate came up with a theory about doctors. While this theory may not be ethical, this theory may hold a lot of truth. The theory goes like this...... This psychologically rich biography traces the brief, quixotic life of the leading female figure of the transcendentalist movement. A child prodigy, Fuller was reared by a father who focussed on cultivating her intellect to the detriment of, as he later ruefully admitted, her “female propriety.” Arrogant and forceful . . . (Subscription required.)... In this fascinating study, Shapiro, an English professor at Columbia, casts skepticism about the authorship of Shakespeare’s works as a “long footnote to the larger story of the way we read now” and traces shifting assumptions about the relation between art and autobiography. Some fifty alternative . . .... Chaudhuri’s languid, melancholy novel, set in Bombay during the nineteen-seventies and eighties, traces the relationship between the middle-class Senguptas and their music teacher, Shyamji. Nirmalya Sengupta, a son of privilege, urges purity in art—the ustads, ragas, and shrutis of Indian classical music—while . . .... Hornby’s books are almost shamefully readable. They can suffer from simplistic premises and too many corny jokes, but his characters are always richly, sympathetically drawn. In this novel of aging, love, and regret, Annie lives in a decaying seaside town in England, where her partner of convenience, Duncan . . .... In this quick and airy fantasia, the quintessential womanizer becomes instead a sad and mostly passive man, possessing a certain magnetism but emphatically not a seducer, who feels pursued by time itself. Handke’s multilayered structure has a sympathetic narrator relaying Don Juan’s account of travel through . . .... PageBreak --> ROCK AND POP Musicians and night-club proprietors live complicated lives; it’s advisable to call ahead to confirm engagements. ABRONS ARTS CENTER 466 Grand St. (212-352-3101)—Jan. 30: Balthrop, Alabama, an expansive local folk-rock collective led by the singer, songwriter, and guitarist Pascal Balthrop . . .... Theory questions on driving tests are the thorn in the side of many would be drivers. It can be difficult to study for theory tests and questions because oftentimes you don't know exactly what kind of questions are coming. Luckily, there are a few things you can do to give yourself a fighting chance on your theory test.... The word "British" has always been associated with a lot of things such as famous rock band "The Beatles", book like "Harry Potter" which was written by the British author J.K. Rowling or the most popular love story "Romeo and Juliet" which was written by one of the best writers of all time - William Shakespeare. Of course, there's also Princess Diana, regarded as the People's Princess;... |
Archive for August, 2009Books: “Darwin’s Armada”Monday, August 31st, 2009This geographically expansive account of the rise of evolutionary theory traces the lives and travels of four titans of nineteenth-century biology: Darwin, the botanist Joseph Hooker, the physiologist Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Russel Wallace, a fearless globetrotter whose dangerous and often unpleasant journeys in the Amazon and the Malay . . . Books: “The Inheritance of Rome”Monday, August 31st, 2009Just as astronomers no longer call Pluto a planet and paleontologists no longer recognize the Brontosaurus, historians have stopped referring to the European era from A.D. 400 to 1000 as the Dark Ages. The latest scholarship, Wickham explains, has made it possible to look at the period “without hindsight . . . Books: “Trouble”Monday, August 31st, 2009Josie Dorvillier, a Manhattan therapist, is trapped in a loveless marriage to an academic. When her best friend from college, a rock star whose best days are behind her, draws ridicule on a celebrity blog for her affair with a much younger television actor, the two friends decide to escape . . . Goings on About Town: Above and BeyondMonday, August 31st, 2009GREAT NORTH RIVER TUGBOAT RACE AND COMPETITION Goings on About Town: Classical MusicMonday, August 31st, 2009PageBreak –> METROPOLITAN OPERA SUMMER HD FESTIVAL Goings on About Town: DanceMonday, August 31st, 2009JOHN CAGE BIRTHDAY TRIBUTE Goings on About Town: MoviesMonday, August 31st, 2009PageBreak –> ALL ABOUT STEVE AMERICAN CASINO AMREEKA Goings on About Town: Night LifeMonday, August 31st, 2009PageBreak –> B. B. KING BLUES CLUB & GRILL |
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