SCIENCE INTELLIGENT notion Edited through John Brockman Vintage.

SCIENCE

INTELLIGENT notion

Edited through John Brockman

Vintage. 256 pages. $14

In this paperback original, 16 noted scientists, including Steven Pinker and Richard Dawkins confute the "intelligent design" movement in powerful and persuasive essays.

MEMOIR

THEM

by way of Francine du Plessix Gray

Penguin. 528 pages. $16

The considered novelist's memoir of growing up as the daughter of gifted Russian emigres who fl the Nazis in Paris in 1940 and became a power pair in New York society.

suddenly MUSIC

come up to face to face THE BEATLES

through Steven D. Stark

Harper. 344 pages. $1495

A biography of the band that is also a cultural history of the 1960 awash in Anglomania steady before the the Beatles took above the American youth scene.

MEMOIR

LEAVING THE SAINTS

by means of Martha Beck

Three Rivers. 340 pages. $1495

A daughter of a prominent Mormon earlier tells why, after encountering sexual abuse and the strict silencing of dissidence, she left the ecclesiastical body

FICTION

THE MYSTERIOUS FLAME OF QUEEN LOANA

from Umberto Eco

Harcourt. 469 pages. $15

A powerful novel of a bibliopole who, after a stroke, cannot remember his wife and children and his childhood, if it be not that remembers every book he has continually read, every line of verse

FICTION

INDECISION

by way of Benjamin Kunkel

Random House. 256 pages. $1295

A much-praised "postmodern" first novel about a young modern Yorker who seeks out of a pleasing prep school classmate while waiting for medication to kick in to method of treatment his chronic indecision.

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