![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SELF-PORTRAIT WITH RUSSIAN PIANO, by Wolf Wondratschek. (Bloomsbury, 400 pp., $17.) In what our reviewer, Elizabeth Graver, described as “a lush, wandering portrait” of a fictional Irish village on the cusp of change, an aging narrator looks back at a trio of intersecting events from the spring of 1958: bringing electricity to the town his hopeless crushes on all three of the local doctor’s daughters and the arrival of a stranger intent on righting a past wrong. ![]() Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, Shah’s compassionate and insightful book argues that migration, for animals and humans, is a natural biological phenomenon, not an irregular, disruptive force. (Bloomsbury, 400 pp., $18.) A finalist for the PEN/E. THE NEXT GREAT MIGRATION: The Beauty and Terror of Life on the Move, by Sonia Shah. (Simon & Schuster, 800 pp., $20.) Alter’s “important, fair-minded” biography, David Greenberg wrote in his review, renders his subject with “a depth rarely achieved by political journalism.” The book “exposes Carter’s weaknesses as well as his undervalued strengths, his reverberating failures as well as his unsung triumphs,” and shows how the qualities that propelled him to the presidency “also kept him from rising to his historical moment.” HIS VERY BEST: Jimmy Carter, A Life, by Jonathan Alter. ![]()
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