(AP) Robert Caro, Katherine Boo and the late Anthony Shadid are among the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle prize. Boo already won the National Book Award for her nonfiction account of a ...

Reviewed by Carolyn J. Kroehler She lives in Blacksburg and is interested in how science is communicated to non-science audiences. From the very first lines of “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, ...

BEHIND THE BEAUTIFUL FOREVERS: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, by Katherine Boo (Random House) This book should come with a warning: Reading it may be hazardous to your rosy view that ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Caro, Katherine Boo and the late Anthony Shadid are among the finalists for the National Book Critics Circle prize. The Passage of Power by Robert A. Caro The former news and ...