FICTION
When an enormous transparent dome settles over a small town in Maine in Stephen King’s new novel, it’s just fine with Big Jim, the local tyrant-in-waiting, and his pet goon squad. E' finalmente uscito Under the Dome di Stephen King (Scribner). nytbr.

Children’s Books Special Section, nytbr.

NONFICTION
Amartya Sen, The Idea of Justice (Allen Lane). Un rigoroso esame di un'idea astratta. G/O.

Tony Curtis, Some Like it Hot: Me, Marilyn and the Movie: My Memories of Marilyn Monroe and the Making of the Classic Movie (Virgin Books). Tutto su A qualcuno piace caldo, compreso gli amori - probabilmente presunti - tra Curtis e Monroe. sfc.

Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir (Harper). Karr continua a scrivere la sua autobiografia. Al centro di questo volume la relazione con David Foster Wallace e la conversione al cattolicesimo. nymag.

Robert M. Poole, On Hallowed Ground. The Story of Arlington National Cemetery (Walker & Company). In the folds of its hills on the Virginia shore of the Potomac, where its vast array of white tombstones evokes the mesmerizing image of an assembled army in its last resting place, Arlington National Cemetery splendidly honors the generations of self-sacrifice embodied in the nation's military dead. It also encapsulates the flawed story of a country still struggling to come to terms with the human cost of its wars. wp.

DA LEGGERE
How They Write. Ce lo raccontano Pamuk, Baker, Atwood, Ishiguro e altri sette autori. wsj.