The Japan Times » Christopher Bray http://www.japantimes.co.jp News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and More Thu, 27 Nov 2014 23:21:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 One exhilarating summer brought to fact-filled life http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/10/12/books/book-reviews/one-exhilarating-summer-brought-to-fact-filled-life/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-exhilarating-summer-brought-to-fact-filled-life http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/10/12/books/book-reviews/one-exhilarating-summer-brought-to-fact-filled-life/#comments Sat, 12 Oct 2013 14:02:16 +0000 http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=culture&p=466516 It had to happen. After books about individual decades came books about individual years. Now we get the book about a single season. Bill Bryson’s “One Summer” is the story of just four months — June to September 1927 — in the life of America. Four crucial months, needless to say — four months in […]

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A survey of 20th-century thinking http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/10/books/book-reviews/a-survey-of-20th-century-thinking/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-survey-of-20th-century-thinking http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/03/10/books/book-reviews/a-survey-of-20th-century-thinking/#comments Sat, 09 Mar 2013 15:01:43 +0000 http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=culture&p=257305 THINKING THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, by Tony Judt with Timothy Snyder. Penguin, 2013, 432 pp. $18 (paperback) Fame came too late for Tony Judt. He was 57 in 2005 when he published his history of Europe after 1945, “Postwar,” the book that sealed his reputation worldwide. Three years later he was diagnosed with motor neuron disease. […]

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