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Book News:

• Chinese reading fewer books, from Xinhuanet.
• Barnes & Noble expands its publishing arm,* from the New York Times .
• Kirkus Reports to sell reviews to publishers, from the Christian Science Monitor.
• Will newly discovered Hemingway story be published? From the London Guardian.
• New demands of publishing industry means fewer deadline extensions,* from New York Times .
• Publishers start to break hardcover-before-paperback rule,* says Laura Miller in the New York Times .
  Book Reviews:
• Two new books about the Apostle Paul,* reviewed by Kenneth Woodward in the New York Times .
• Nicholas Wolterstorff on education and shalom, from First Things.
• The 60-volume Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, from the London Guardian.
• Terry Eagleton on the decline of the critical intellectual, in the New Statesman.
• Why the roots of human language are relational, not genetic, from the Christian Science Monitor.
• The history of psychoanalysis,* from the New York Times .
• The politics of science, and a flawed historical perspective on stem cells, from First Things.
• Two new books on the end of easy oil, from the Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Benjamin Schwarz on Anonymous' Imperial Hubris, in the Atlantic Monthly.
• Using fractal geometry to read the stock market, from the Christian Science Monitor.
• When Adbusters becomes a brand, and other contradictions of the counterculture, from the Toronto Star.
• In pursuit of the peregrine falcon, from the Washington Post.
• The messy history of how America dealt with wolves, from the Atlantic Monthly.
• How Stradivarius made his violins, from the London Telegraph.
• The letters of Truman Capote, from the New Yorker.
• Jonathan Rosen's new novel an emotional and wry inquiry into the nature of belief,* says the New York Times .
• John Updike on Portuguese author José Saramago's new novel, from the New Yorker.
• Joyce Carol Oates' new novel* 'gravely ambitious,' says the New York Times .
• Poet Jane Draycott's collection sings out of calculated precision, from the Guardian.
• The Boston Review on seven new books of poetry.
• New biographies: Jorge Luis Borges - Phillips Brooks - Ulysses Grant - Graham Greene - Henry Longfellow - Edwin O'Connor - Georgia O'Keeffe - Michael Oakeshott - Robert Oppenheimer - Alfred Russel Wallace - Richard Yates
• Michael Beschloss' picks for best books about American elections, from the Washington Post.
• August book blog
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Nathan Bierma is editorial assistant at Books & Culture.He writes the weekly "On Language" column for the Chicago Tribune.

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