Previews, Reviews, and Collection Development
Barnett, Kristine. The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing Genius. Random. Apr. 2013. 272p. ISBN 9780812993370. $27; eISBN 9780679645245. CD/Downloadable: Random Audio. MEMOIR At age 12, Jacob Barnett became a paid researcher in quantum physics, and his IQ is higher than Einstein’s was. But as a distracted toddler, he was diagnosed with autism, and Jacob’s [...]
When Whitman declares in “Native Moments,” “I will play a part no longer, why should I exile myself / from my companions? / I come forthwith in your midst, I will be your poet, / I will be more to you than to any of the rest,” he defines, in one context, the innermost desire [...]
Reviews of Christoph Niemann’s Abstract City, Elena Passarello’s Let Me Clear My Throat, and The Hungry Ear, plus a full list of Arts & Humanities reviews in the September 1 issue.
Reviews of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II, Natasha Trethewey’s Thrall, and James D. Tabor’s Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity, plus a full list of Arts & Humanities reviews in the August issue.
Baggott, Julianna. Fuse. Grand Central. Feb. 2013. 416p. ISBN 9781455503087. $25.99. Downloadable: Hachette Audio. DYSTOPIAN In Baggott’s laceratingly inventive Pure, those not safely under the Dome at the bomb-bright apocalyptic moment have been permanently fused to whatever was nearby, object or human, and Partridge defies his father, Dome master Willux, by escaping to the wider [...]
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