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‘Bottom of the 33rd’
By DAN BARRY
Reviewed by STEFAN FATSIS
Dan Barry, in “Bottom of the 33rd,” describes one of the strangest baseball games in history: 32 unbroken innings.
Janet Malcolm observes a murder trial involving the Bukharan-Jewish community in Queens while attacking the way journalists covered it.
Diana B. Henriques dissects the Madoff Ponzi scheme in “The Wizard of Lies.”
Dan Barry, in “Bottom of the 33rd,” describes one of the strangest baseball games in history: 32 unbroken innings.
The “Three Cups of Tea” author Greg Mortenson’s charitable work, seen up close, suggests the complexity of development work in Afghanistan.
The bankruptcy judge said a revised plan was “in the best interests of the debtors, their estates and creditors.”
In Francine Prose’s new novel, an Albanian immigrant seeks the good life by inventing stories of her old one.
Often in his memoir, “Stories I Only Tell My Friends,” Rob Lowe, who shows himself to be smart and self-deprecating, marvels at the sheer absurdity of his circumstances.
This month turns out to be a cruel one for women, with new releases — from Jo Ann Beard, Siri Hustvedt, Mary Gordon, Linda Grant, David Hewson and Michael Wallner — exploring themes of adolescence, adultery, aging and murder.
Inès de la Fressange, businesswoman and former model, wrote a best-selling book of tips on how to look Parisian.
Alexandra Styron writes of growing up with a novelist who had a charmed social circle and difficult personality.
In this exhilarating account of the Civil War’s first stage, Adam Goodheart turns his lens upon some fascinating figures who loomed large at the time but have now been mostly forgotten.
William Styron’s daughter tells what it was like to live with her famous father’s depression and paranoia.
Ice-T — rapper, actor, author — holds forth on urban culture and the price of fame.
A look at new books by Matthew Zapruder, 43, and Rachel Wetzsteon, who killed herself at 42 in 2009.
A mother’s action during a school emergency causes an uproar in her idyllic suburban community.
This first novel is narrated by a trinity of sisters who return home to care for their ailing mother.
In Tom Shone’s first novel, a literary agent joins Alcoholics Anonymous to pursue an esteemed author.
A report from a marine ecologist who scrutinized the Deepwater Horizons oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.
Linda Grant’s novel follows a generation through a British couple who met in college in the late 1960s.
Martin van Creveld questions Americans’ faith in air power as a way to win a war without a heavy price.
In these essays, the historian Simon Schama roams among various pursuits, both broad and intimate.
This literary assortment from Paula Fox includes stories, essays and memoir fragments, written over the course of half a century.
Two new picture books, “Ice” and “Press Here,” invite reader engagement without bells or whistles.
In his controversial new best seller, “Love Wins,” the evangelical minister Rob Bell challenges traditional views of heaven and hell.
Mystery novels by Anne Perry, Philip Kerr, David Downing and Julia Spencer-Fleming.
Featuring Adam Goodheart on his book “1861: The Civil War Awakening”; and excerpts from a panel discussion about the role of poetry in the modern world.
The New York Times won two Pulitzer Prizes for commentary and foreign reporting in 2010, while The Los Angeles Times received the coveted public service Pulitzer.
The King James Bible turns 400 next month. But it still speaks to current debates over how best to translate sacred texts.
Already celebrated in his native Australia, the artist has emerged on the global stage at 37 as a major visual storyteller.
Paul Brodeur, a former investigative reporter for The New Yorker, claims the New York Public Library has mishandled the collection of documents he donated to its archives.
Bernard L. Madoff remained calm and seemingly in control as the financial crisis closed in around him, a new book says.
Baz Dreisinger started writing about hip-hop in the late 1990s, as both an academic and a journalist.
Greg Mortenson, whose “Three Cups of Tea” clocks its 220th week on the paperback nonfiction list, tests the adage that there’s no such thing as bad publicity.
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