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...book is any indication, Cunningham, 52, is still willing to fail, and in the best possible way. Specimen Days (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 308 pages) is divided into three parts, all set in New York City but each in a different era: the Industrial Revolution, the present day and-stay with me here-the far future. The three parts are written in three different literary genres and feature the same three characters. Walt Whitman also makes a cameo. Oh, and there's a 5-ft.-tall, talking alien lizard woman. Recklessness: check...
Some of the secrets of the magazine's success can be found in A Matter of Opinion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 458 pages), Victor Navasky's hefty memoir of a quarter-century at the Nation--first as its editor and, since 1994, its publisher and part owner. In tracing the colorful path of his career, which included founding the opinion journal the Monocle and stints as a writer and an editor at the New York Times, Navasky defends the relevance of ideological magazines across the political spectrum. "To me the problem is too little opinion, not too much," he writes, arguing...
...relief, then, to find little mention of Iraq in Friedman's new book, The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 488 pages). Instead the author embarks on a "trail of globalization" that leads him from Wal-Mart warehouses in Bentonville, Ark., to office parks in Bangalore, India. Thanks to a convergence of trends--cheap telecommunications, expanded trade, open-source software, Google--the global playing field is being "flattened" faster than ever before, allowing workers in India and China to compete with, and even outperform, their U.S. counterparts. Friedman sees this transition...
...putting in an honest day's hard labor, suddenly, whoops! It's time for a scene change, or a flashback, or a few pages of deep internal monologue. That's what makes Elizabeth Gaffney's Metropolis (Random House; 461 pages) and Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 390 pages) so unusual. They don't push work into the margins: Their characters actually get stuff done...
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