IN SHORT

Casey Schwartz dives headfirst In the Mind Fields (Pantheon). Leslie Zemeckis bows before the Goddess of Love Incarnate (Counterpoint).

Kermit Roosevelt pledges Allegiance (Regan Arts). Deyan Sudjic sees Ettore Sottsass and the Poetry of Things (Phaidon). George MacDonald Fraser leaves behind Captain in Calico (Mysterious). Susanna Moore visits the Paradise of the Pacific (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Ted Rail leaks Snowden (Seven Stories). Pretender Chrissie Hynde gets Reckless (Doubleday). Tony Collins tackles The Oval World (Bloomsbury). Wendell Pierce and Rod Dreher hurtle through The Wind in the Reeds (Riverhead). Anne C. Heller illuminates Hannah Arendt (New Harvest). G. Bruce Boyer tailors True Style (Basic Books). James Hamilton invests in A Strange Business (Pegasus). Erica Jong flies with Fear of Dying (St. Martin's). Robert Goolrick nails misbehaving Wall Streeters in The Fall of Princes (Algonquin). Cecil-philes Mike Holborn and Annie Leibovitz adore Beaton Photographs (Abrams).

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