BOOKS OF THE TIMES
‘Electric Eden
’
By ROB YOUNG
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER
Rob Young’s new book explores folk music during the 1960s and early ’70s in Britain.
‘Infamous Players: A Tale of Movies, the Mob, (and Sex)
’
By PETER BART
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN
Peter Bart’s new memoir recalls his years as a vice president at Paramount under Robert Evans in the late 1960s and 1970s.
At 100, Still a Teacher, and Quite a Character
By JOSEPH BERGER
Bel Kaufman, the granddaughter of the great Yiddish storyteller Sholem Aleichem, taught a course on Jewish humor this year at Hunter College, where she graduated in 1934.
CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Picture Books About Family Photography
By ANNA ALTER and HARRIET ZIEFERT
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
“Grandma’s Wedding Album” depicts an album within a book; “A Photo for Greta” is about a bunny whose father is a photographer.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
‘Small Memories
: A Memoir’
By JOSÉ SARAMAGO
Reviewed by DWIGHT GARNER
This memoir by the Nobel laureate José Saramago, who died last spring, ends with a series of old family photographs that he has mischievously annotated.
Times Topic: Saramago, Jose
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
‘On China
’
By HENRY KISSINGER
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Henry A. Kissinger’s fascinating, shrewd and sometimes perverse new book, “On China,” tries to show how the history of China has shaped its foreign policy and attitudes toward the West.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
'The Heart and the Fist: The education of a humanitarian, the making of a Navy SEAL
' and 'SEAL Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Navy SEAL Sniper
'
By ERIC GREITENS and HOWARD E. WASDIN
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI
Two new memoirs by former members of the Navy Seals, “Seal Team Six” by Howard E. Wasdin and “The Heart and the Fist” by Eric Greitens, are very different in tone.
Nurturer of Authors Is Closing the Book
By JULIE BOSMAN
The editor Robert Loomis, who is retiring from Random House after 54 years, is known for nurturing writers including Maya Angelou, William Styron, Shelby Foote and Calvin Trillin.
Favoring Immigration if Not the Immigrant
By JASON DePARLE
Susan F. Martin’s book “A Nation of Immigrants
” argues that the United States has historically favored immigration more consistently than it has immigrants.
LINK BY LINK
A Digital Critique of a Famous Autobiography
By NOAM COHEN
A multimedia project at Columbia, created by the late Manning Marable, combs over the famous 1965 autobiography of Malcolm X.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
‘Pulse: Stories
’
By JULIAN BARNES
Reviewed by MICHIKO KAKUTANI
The latest story collection from Julian Barnes is filled with both gems and should-have-been discards.
Al Gore Invents a Showpiece E-Book
By DAVID POGUE
Al Gore's book "our Choice" has been converted into an e-book app that is a showpiece for the new world of touch-screen gadgets.
BOOKS OF THE TIMES
‘The Informant: An Otto Penzler Book (Butcher's Boy)
’
By THOMAS PERRY
Reviewed by JANET MASLIN
The Butcher’s Boy, Thomas Perry’s unflappable hired killer, is forced out of retirement to settle old scores in “The Informant.”
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