Sunday Picks:

• »Abigal Adams by Woody Holton (Free Press) Reviewed by Virginia DeJohn Anderson: “Holton, a professor of history at the University of Richmond, provides a fresh perspective that invites readers to do more than just remember this remarkable lady.”
• »Interesting Times: Writings from a Turbulent Decade by George Packer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) Reviewed by Franklin Foer: “This volume coheres better than most in the genre. That’s because Packer has a far more coherent worldview than most reporters.”
• »Perfect Rigor: A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century by Masha Gessen (Houghton Mifflin) Reviewed by Jascha Hoffman: ” But she does provide a thorough account of the circumstances that led to Perelman’s rise in the “vicious, backstabbing little world” of Soviet mathematics and a brilliant reconstruction of the twisted logic that might have led to his mysterious exit. In so doing she has written something rare: an accessible book about an unreachable man.”

HAPPY READING,

J