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...geometry. The colorful produce and flowers pull us into a world of plenty. Now Nestle is in her element. An N.Y.U. professor, Nestle (rhymes with wrestle) has just published What to Eat: An Aisle-by-Aisle Guide to Savvy Food Choices and Good Eating. To write the 600-page tome, she spent a year examining the world of groceries. "It's not exactly the great Western novel," she concedes, but it has its own fascination, breaking the code of an utterly familiar yet beguiling institution. TIME quizzed Nestle in the aisles at Safeway. For a more panoramic overview, turn...
...glad their daughter did not major in economics.But the Foster associate professor of African studies has never been one to back down from pursuing her goals.INTO AFRICAIn just one year as a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Elkins wrote, edited, and published a nearly 500-page tome entitled “Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain’s Gulag in Kenya.” The then-assistant professor’s first book would garner her a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for general nonfiction.“She was here all the time, seven days...
...well-attended BookExpo buzz panel, Vikram Chandra's massive debut novel (1,000-plus pages) was championed by HarperCollins' publisher, who promised that the book will "do for Indian literature what 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' did for South American literature." Amazon.co.uk gives a preview of the tome: "This epic novel draws the reader deep into the life of detective Sartaj Singh and into the criminal underworld of Ganesh Gaitonde, the most wanted gangster in India...
Though a good number of their membership does list “Gatsby” as a favorite tome on the facebook.com, this is not just about the Fly. It is also about the many Harvard (and Princeton, and Yale) students who, according to that same site, consider “The Great Gatsby” only second to the Harry Potter books, yet do not seem understand the book’s main idea. And to a lesser extent, it is about the United States, which buys some 300,000 copies of “Gatsby” each...
...Toni Morrison. So it's a bit of a surprise to find that his third novel, Apex Hides the Hurt (Doubleday), is a rather modest affair, slender and conceptual in nature. Wouldn't this be the moment, tactically speaking, to kick out the jams with a massive, world-electrifying tome? It's also a bit of a surprise to find that it's pretty...