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BOOKS FROM OUR PAGES (The New Yorker) DECEMBER 17, 2007
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NONFICTION
Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints, by Joan Acocella (Pantheon; $30).

Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays

Mere Anarchy, by Woody Allen (Random House; $21.95).

Mere Anarchy

Foreskin’s Lament, by Shalom Auslander (Riverhead; $24.95).

Foreskin's Lament: A Memoir

Nobodies, by John Bowe (Random House; $25.95).

Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy

Brother, I’m Dying, by Edwidge Danticat (Knopf; $23.95).

Brother, I'm Dying

Something in the Air, by Marc Fisher (Random House; $27.95).

Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation

Better, by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan; $24).

Better: A Surgeon's Notes on Performance

Peeling the Onion, by Günter Grass, translated from the German by Michael Henry Heim (Harcourt; $26).

Peeling the Onion

How Doctors Think, by Jerome Groopman (Houghton Mifflin; $26).

How Doctors Think

Fame Junkies, by Jake Halpern (Houghton Mifflin; $23).

Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction

King’s Gambit, by Paul Hoffman (Hyperion; $24.95).　旧著に『放浪の天才数学者エルデシュ』がある。

King's Gambit: A Son, A Father, and the World's Most Dangerous Game

　

放浪の天才数学者エルデシュ

The Mistress’s Daughter, by A. M. Homes (Viking; $24.95).

The Mistress's Daughter

Travels with Herodotus, by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Knopf; $25).

Travels with Herodotus

The Half-Life of an American Essayist, by Arthur Krystal (David R. Godine; $24.95).　Harper's Magazine 寄稿記事はこちら >> http://www.harpers.org/subjects/ArthurKrystal

The Half-Life of an American Essayist

The Curtain, by Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher (HarperCollins; $22.95).

The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts

Two Lives, by Janet Malcolm (Yale; $25).

Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice

Born Standing Up, by Steve Martin (Scribner; $25).

Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life

One Perfect Day, by Rebecca Mead (Penguin Press; $25.95).

One Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding

Other Colors, by Orhan Pamuk, translated from the Turkish by Maureen Freely (Knopf; $27.95).

Other Colors: Essays and a Story

Learning to Drive, by Katha Pollitt (Random House; $22.95).

Learning to Drive: And Other Life Stories

The Wild Trees, by Richard Preston (Random House; $25.95).

The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring

Ant Farm, by Simon Rich (Random House; $12.95).

Ant Farm: And Other Desperate Situations

God’s Harvard, by Hanna Rosin (Harcourt; $25).

God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America

The Rest Is Noise, by Alex Ross (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $30).

The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century

Musicophilia, by Oliver Sacks (Knopf; $26).

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

The Braindead Megaphone, by George Saunders (Riverhead; $14).

The Braindead Megaphone

Prime Green, by Robert Stone (Ecco; $25.95).

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties

Cleopatra’s Nose, by Judith Thurman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $27.50).

Cleopatra's Nose: 39 Varieties of Desire

The Nine, by Jeffrey Toobin (Doubleday; $27.95).

The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

Due Considerations, by John Updike (Knopf; $40).

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

The Happiest Man in the World, by Alec Wilkinson (Random House; $24.95).

The Happiest Man in the World: An Account of the Life of Poppa Neutrino

 
FICTION
Twenty Grand, by Rebecca Curtis (HarperPerennial; $13.95).

Twenty Grand: And Other Tales of Love and Money (P.S.)

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, by Junot Díaz (Riverhead; $24.95).

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Falling Man, by Don DeLillo (Scribner; $26).

Falling Man

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, by Nadine Gordimer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $21).

Beethoven Was One-sixteenth Black And Other Stories

The Master Bedroom, by Tessa Hadley (Henry Holt; $26).

The Master Bedroom

Tree of Smoke, by Denis Johnson (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $27).

Tree of Smoke

No One Belongs Here More Than You, by Miranda July (Scribner; $23).

No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories

A Tranquil Star, by Primo Levi, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein and Alessandra Bastagli (Norton; $21.95).

Tranquil Star: Unpublished Stories of Primo Levi

On Chesil Beach, by Ian McEwan (Nan A. Talese; $22).

On Chesil Beach: A Novel

Shakespeare’s Kitchen, by Lore Segal (New Press; $22.95).

Shakespeare's Kitchen: Stories

The Elephanta Suite, by Paul Theroux (Houghton Mifflin; $25).

The Elephanta Suite: Three Novellas

White Walls, by Tatyana Tolstaya, translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell and Antonina W. Bouis (New York Review of Books; $16.95).

White Walls: Collected Stories (New York Review Books Classics)

Cheating at Canasta, by William Trevor (Viking; $24.95).

Cheating at Canasta: Stories

Truelove Knot, by Arturo Vivante (Notre Dame; $22).

Truelove Knot: A Novel of World War II

 
POETRY
A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery (Ecco; $23.95).

A Worldly Country: New Poems

Mars Being Red, by Marvin Bell (Copper Canyon; $15).

Mars Being Red

Domestic Violence, by Eavan Boland (Norton; $23.95).

Domestic Violence: Poems

Blackbird and Wolf, by Henri Cole (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $23).

Blackbird and Wolf

The Second Child, by Deborah Garrison (Random House; $19.95).

The Second Child: Poems

Wideawake Field, by Eliza Griswold (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $23).

Wideawake Field

Still to Mow, by Maxine Kumin (Norton; $23.95).

Still to Mow: Poems

Halflife, by Meghan O’Rourke (Norton; $23.95).

Halflife

Gulf Music, by Robert Pinsky (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22).

Gulf Music

Failure, by Philip Schultz (Harcourt; $23).

Failure

Little Boat, by Jean Valentine (Wesleyan; $22.95).

Little Boat (Wesleyan Poetry)

Littlefoot, by Charles Wright (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $23).

Littlefoot

 
CARTOONS AND ART
They Moved My Bowl, by Charles Barsotti (Little, Brown; $19.99).

They Moved My Bowl

Last Laughs, edited by Mort Gerberg (Scribner; $22.95).

Last Laughs: Cartoons About Aging, Retirement...and the Great Beyond

Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell, by Bruce Eric Kaplan (Simon & Schuster; $11.95).

Edmund and Rosemary Go to Hell: A Story We All Really Need Now More Than Ever

Goings On About Town, by Sylvia Plachy (Aperture; $29.95).

Sylvia Plachy: Goings on About Town: Photographs For The New Yorker

 
AND . . .
Secret Ingredients, edited by David Remnick (Random House; $29.95).

Secret Ingredients: The New Yorker Book of Food and Drink