(Simon & Schuster, 416 pp., $18.) While conceding that this paean may be guilty of “inflating the significance of the cultural touchstones of its author’s youth,” our reviewer, David Friend, found merit in Raftery’s claim for 1999’s “bumper crop” of movies “with a fin de siècle edge: a pervading apocalyptic angst.” How 1999 Blew Up the Big Screen, by Brian Raftery. (Simon & Schuster, 336 pp., $17.) This “lightly fictionalized memoir” about “the nature of memory and time,” in the words of our reviewer, Judith Shulevitz, is divided into two tales: a portrait of the artist as a young woman, from a journal she kept at 23, and the story of how that portrait came to be, 38 years later.īEST. MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE, by Siri Hustvedt. (Vintage, 288 pp., $16.95.) This posthumous book by the renowned neurologist and storyteller, whom our reviewer, Daniel Menaker, called “a brilliant singularity,” contains case histories of patients with symptoms from hallucinations to hiccups, autobiographical essays on everything from long-distance swimming to gefilte fish and a myriad of existential and cosmic musings.
EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE: First Loves and Last Tales, by Oliver Sacks.
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