Can’t Buy Me Love: The Beatles, Britain, and America
By Jonathan Gould
Three Rivers, $15.95
An all-encompassing guide to the most famous rock band in history, their era, their music and their place in pop culture.
Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race
By Richard Rhodes
Vintage, $15.95
Richard Rhodes sheds new light on the decades-long Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union and the costs to both sides.
The Bad Girl
By Mario Vargas Llosa
Translated by Edith Grossman, Picador, $14
A complicated tale of a young man’s obsessive love.
Being Shelley: A Poet’s Search for Himself
By Anne Wroe
Vintage, $16.95
A biography of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, featuring unpublished notebooks and personal details behind his most compelling works.
The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History
By Katherine Ashenburg
North Point Press, $15
A history of hygiene, that is, the evolution of Western civilization’s ideas about cleanliness and personal grooming from ancient Greece and Rome to now.
Exit Ghost
By Philip Roth
Vintage, $14.95
Philip Roth’s creation, Nathan Zuckerman, faces the savagery of old age.
The Fall of Troy
By Peter Ackroyd
Anchor, $14.95
Novel re-imagines story of German archaeologist driven to find the ancient city of Troy and prove Homer’s epic was based on fact. Many twists and turns.
Foreigners
By Caryl Phillips
Vintage, $14.95
The stories of three black men who come to England during different eras illuminate 200 years of British racial intolerance.
Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
By John Berger
Vintage, $12.95
A set of essays that offer reflections on values and power.
Kennedy’s Brain
By Henning Mankell
Vintage Crime, $14.95
A man who worked with AIDS victims in Africa is dead, and his mother sets out to find answers as she questions the pharmaceutical industry. Translated from the Swedish.
