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Physics of the Impossible
Review by Patrick Rapa, eMusic
The co-founder of string field theory explains anti-gravity to the rest of us.
Funny thing about theoretical physicists: Most of them seem to know how to talk to n00bs. This isn’t rocket science — wormholes are far more complicated — and yet somehow accredited brainiacs like Michio Kaku find a way a putting things so as we c’n unnerstand em. For him, maybe it’s because he’s never lost touch with his inner ...
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...
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
Review by Rochelle O'Gorman, eMusic
The brainy and humorous writer turns to his youth in '50s America.
In his first memoir, Bill Bryson writes charmingly of his youth — both real and imagined — in the 1950s in The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid; A Memoir. Best known for his brainy, humorous books on travel, grammar and even Shakespeare, in Thunderbolt Bryson turns his sharp wit not just on himself, but on the culture and society in wh...
The Big Year
Review by Rochelle O'Gorman, eMusic
The race to be the best bird watcher in North America.
Birding. It just doesn't sound exciting, but in the hands of environmental journalist Mark Obmascik, the race to be the best bird watcher in North America becomes a charming and engrossing story.
Obmascik, an avid outdoorsman and engaging writer, interviewed the three main contenders in 1998's Big Year contest, a competition held annually with the spoils going to...
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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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