New York Times Books
Books of The Times: War Intrudes on a Man’s Bucolic Idyll Existential concepts like authenticity and selfhood, and people’s ability or inability to apprehend reality, lie at the heart of Tom McCarthy’s disappointing and highly self-conscious new novel.
Books of The Times: Simon Wiesenthal, the Man Who Refused to Forget A detailed biography of the legendary Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal shows him to be a complicated hero, an angel with dirty wings.
Book Sets Off Immigration Debate in Germany Thilo Sarrazin, a former official who has been criticized as espousing racist views, has set off a discussion about Germany’s immigration policy.
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