NYT Book Review Editor's Choice
DREAMS AND SHADOWS: The Future of the Middle East, by Robin Wright. (Penguin Press, $26.95.) This fluent and intelligent book describes the struggles of people from Morocco to Iran to reform or replace long-entrenched national regimes.
THE BUSH TRAGEDY, by Jacob Weisberg. (Random House, $26.) Weisberg sees George Bush’s life and presidency as products of a series of relationships with other people, all of which contributed to his failures.
WHAT THE GOSPELS MEANT, by Garry Wills. (Viking, $24.95.) An engaging look at Mark, Matthew, Luke and John, informed by the best biblical scholarship and Wills’s open discussion of his Catholic faith.
THE HORSE, THE WHEEL, AND LANGUAGE: How Bronze-Age Riders From the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World, by David W. Anthony. (Princeton University, $35.) The genealogy of Proto-Indo-European, history’s most successful language.
BILL MAULDIN: A Life Up Front, by Todd DePastino. (Norton, $27.95.) Mauldin, best remembered as the creator of the World War II G.I.’s Willie and Joe, was never prepared to become a cult cartoonist.
THE GOOD RAT: A True Story, by Jimmy Breslin. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $24.95.) The story is mainly that of Louis Eppolito and Stephen Caracappa, New York detectives fingered as mob assassins a few years ago.
THE BOYS IN THE TREES, by Mary Swan. (Holt, paper, $14.) In this first novel, a 19th-century Canadian community tries to understand why an English immigrant committed an unspeakable crime.
THE SOUL THIEF, by Charles Baxter. (Pantheon, $20.) Baxter’s inscrutable protagonist becomes the object of a fellow graduate student’s obsession.
SONG YET SUNG, by James McBride. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A woman reminiscent of Harriet Tubman is the heroine of this novel about antebellum fugitive slaves.
posted by temporal at 3/14/2008
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