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Theodore Rex lets Morris be Morris (not "Morris"), which is to say one of the most adroit biographers around. And every visit to the footnotes shows that those cinematic details--the wind that ruffles Teddy's hair on one page, the sunset that darkens windows on another--are all accounted for in some real person's memoirs or letters or in some old newspaper account...
...themselves that the gifted but infamous Morris has not made up some of his nicely observed details, and not just because so much of this book has the hurtling pace and alert eye of good fiction. So did Morris' Pulitzer prizewinning first volume, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. That account was as robust and vivid as Teddy himself--probably the last President to have knifed a cougar...
Fortunately, Edmonds and Eidinow aren't philosophers themselves, and their account of Wittgenstein's notoriously difficult ideas is admirably clear. During his defense of his doctoral thesis, Wittgenstein famously told his examiners, "Don't worry. I know you'll never understand it." By the end of Wittgenstein's Poker, you'll almost believe you could...
...where does Atta fit in? Investigators say an official of Al-Barakaat's Boston outlet opened an account last year at a Key Bank in Portland and later sent $920,000 overseas. Now they are trying to determine whether Atta had access...
...because his main character is a photographer who began a still-life series in 2017 by shooting "objects put together bald, like a visual list," Joshi's novel reads more like a photomontage than a narrative. He jump-shifts between the voice of an unidentified narrator and Bhatt; another account comes from diary entries of a young woman smitten with the photographer. These abrupt cuts require careful attention. They also add to Joshi's deeper theme of the complexity of connections in life: particularly, where the relationship between nation and family begins and ends...