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The End of Poverty
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
A modest proposal that will likely never come to pass.
If anybody’s earned bragging rights in the world of international economics it’s Jeffrey Sachs. That’s because he’s put theory into practice: Bolivia, Poland and Russia all hired him to pull them out of debt and destructive policies, and Kofi Annan kept him on retainer for the U.N. So, when Sachs announces a plan to eliminate poverty around the world in under 20 y...
In the Woods
Review by Sarah Weinman, eMusic
Award-winning, decades-spanning detective tale.
In the Woods takes a creepy backstory — three children go into the woods in 1984 and only one comes out alive, bleeding and unable to reveal the whereabouts of his playmates — and instead of solving the mystery outright, allows it to serve as a macabre backdrop when the murder of an attractive teenage blonde in Greater Dublin is linked to the decades-old crim...
The Areas of My Expertise
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
The Daily Show correspondent relates his knowledge of the world.
No offense to books, but if you’re just reading The Areas of My Expertise, you’re not getting the full experience. John Hodgman (whom you may recognize from The Daily Show, or the “I’m a PC” commercials) has got this bookish, bald-faced deadpan that simultaneously conveys authority and whimsy. Which is what you need when you’re lying your ass off. ...
American Pastoral
Review by Adelle Waldman, eMusic
A feast of intelligence, empathy, sociological accuracy and inventive writing.
The first of Philip Roth’s superb American Trilogy, Pulitzer Prize-winning American Pastoral is a feast of intelligence, empathy, sociological accuracy and inventive writing. It’s also surprisingly engaging — surprising in that not much happens and what does is told with an eye more toward psychological truth than dramatic twists. But...
In Defense of Food
Review by Elisa Ludwig, eMusic
A sensible argument for sensible eating.
If science journalist Pollan’s bestseller The Omnivore’s Dilemma detailed the industrialized food systems eroding our environment, this follow-up serves as a companion guide through the morass of the supermarket back to the eating patterns that will truly nourish us. First, though, Pollan takes aim at “nutritionism,” the Western belief system that focuses on the trees of indivi...
Killshot
Review by Kevin Canfield, eMusic
A economical and fierce crime novel from a master of the genre.
As he’ll later explain to a fellow thug in Elmore Leonard’s typically gritty Killshot, “(o)ne shot, one kill” is something of a motto for Armand Degas. A systematic hired gun, Degas is living in a cheap motel when the novel opens, but soon he’ll be back at work, charged with the task of removing a guy known as Papa in exchange for a blue Cadillac.
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The Play's the Thing: Drama
The human race has been starry-eyed and stage struck ever since actors first trod the boards to honor the god Dionysius on the slopes the Acropolis millennia ago. Even the word drama itself — it means "to do" or "to act" — comes to us from the inventors of the theater, the ancient Greeks. Shakespeare, also knew his way around the theater, penning historical, comedic and tragic plays for two monarchs that ga...
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Baseball Books
The structure and rhythm found in nine innings of baseball are unique among sports. The dynamics of the game, from the one-on-one clashes between batters and pitchers to the economic relationships between owners and players, have inspired countless narratives. Journalists and essayists write gripping explorations of everything from statistics to scandals, and the athletes themselves contribute decade-spanning biographi...
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