100 лучших книг 2014 года по версии The New York Times — 100 книг — стр. 5

A devastating look at how we got ­Afghanistan wrong.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 04:19

The author’s father’s opposition to Hitler brought his family into danger.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 04:33

Drawing on science, myth and literature, Biss spellbindingly examines the psychological fog of fear that surrounds immunization today.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 04:35

A young sociologist’s remarkably reported ethnography of a poor black Philadelphia ­neighborhood.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 04:37

The playwright on how to be creative when life and children intervene.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 04:40

With first-rate scholarship, an archaeologist reinterprets the Parthenon frieze in this exciting and revelatory history.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:08

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Times reporter chronicles the excesses of the war on terror in this important and powerful book.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:10

In this delicate portrait, Lee takes on the challenge of an elusive late-bloomer — the great novelist and biographer who published her first book at 58 and became famous at 80.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:13

In this manifesto, Pollitt argues that women should stop apologizing and reclaim abortion as a “positive social good.”

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:17

A heartbreaking journey from a New Jersey ghetto to Yale to a drug-­related murder.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:18

A powerful examination of the role of man-made climate change in causing the current spasm of plant and animal loss that threatens the planet.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:21

This account of the high-level British spymaster who turned out to be a Russian mole reads like John le Carré but is a solidly researched true story.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:23

Materials we think banal and boring — paper, concrete, glass, plastic — hold hidden wonders.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:24

Goldstein offers a lively, personality-driven survey of the public education system, and offers ideas for its reform.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:26

How marathon sessions of bare-knuckle diplomacy forged a framework for peace between Israel and Egypt in 1978.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:29

In her ambitious and consequential analysis, Klein argues there is still time to avoid catastrophe, but not within the current rules of capitalism.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:29

With its sly humor and trenchant vision, this genre-bending work finds sublime poetry in the world of mixed martial arts.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:31

A charming and gusto-driven look at the alcoholic insanity of six famous authors: John Cheever, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Raymond Carver.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:33

Competing visions of the American dream collide in this account of a post-9/11 hate crime and its unlikely ­reverberations.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:42

Kissinger’s elegant, wide-ranging cri de coeur is a realpolitik warning for future generations from a skeptic steeped in the past.

Seterwind 6 декабря 2014 г., 05:45