The New York Review of Ideas » Reviews | June 2009

Reviews

New books on big ideas.

Living to Tell the Tale
Margaret Wheeler Johnson | On the Origin of Stories, by Brian Boyd.

Giving a Damn
Anna Bak-Kvapil | Frankly, My Dear: Gone With the Wind Revisited, by Molly Haskell.

The Global City
Flora Fair | Welcome to the Urban Revolution, by Jeb Brugman.

High Expectations of Sordidness
Frances Pollitzer | Tattoo Machine, by Jeff Johnson.

Recipe for Success
Renee Dittrich | The Talent Code, by Daniel Coyle.

Pissing Away Our Future
Peter Koch | Unquenchable, by Robert Glennon.

iPhone Nation
Derrick Koo | The Future of the Internet—and How to Stop It, by Jonathan Zittrain.