arts & entertainment Summer Reading from page 31 Also for art lovers is Modigliani: A Life, in which Merle Secrest provides an in-depth portrait of one of the 20th century's master painters and sculptors — writing of his upbringing as a Sephardic Jew from an impoverished but genteel Italian family, his going to Paris to make his fortune, his artis- tic influences and his long-kept illness from tuberculosis, which he masked with alcohol. whose transport plane was downed dur- ing a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the island's uncharted jungle. Threaded throughout this tale of adventure is a deep- er story about the collision of two distinct cultures — one, as Zuckoff puts it, "on the brink of the Atomic Age and the other "in the Stone Age." A master at writing true tales as riveting as fiction, Erik Larson tackles the Third Reich in In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin, the story of William E. Dodd, a mild-mannered history professor who to everyone's surprise becomes America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and Dodd's 24-year-old daughter Martha, an outspo- ken free spirit who is at first entranced by the ebullience and optimism of the "New Germany" (as well as with romance with dangerous figures). Soon they begin to see the menace that underlies Berlin's beauty and vibrancy. The Roaring Twenties come to life in American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee (Random House), Karen Abbott's story of America's coming of age told through the life of Gypsy Rose Lee, as well as the four Jewish showbiz Minsky brothers from New York, who would pave the way for Gypsy Rose Lee's brand of burlesque. Boston University professor of journalism Mitchell Zuckoff's Lost in Shangri-La: A True Story of Survival, Adventure and the Most Incredible Rescue Mission of World War II (Harper) tells the true story of the battle for survival of three enlisted soldiers (including a WAC) stationed in New Guinea Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Debra Bluets The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York (Penguin) provides an account of famous New York City crimes and of the forensic medicine pioneered by NYC's first professional medi- cal examiner, Charles Norris, and his chief toxicologist, Alexander Gettler, the son of working-class Jewish immigrants. Both lobbied heavily against Prohibition, which caused countless deaths from bad booze. In The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty (Basic Books), British autism expert Simon Baron-Cohen explores borderline personality disorder, autism, narcissism, psychosis and Asperger's, syndromes that have one thing in common: lack of empathy. In some cases, he concludes, this absence can be dangerous, but in others it can simply mean a different way of seeing the world. Baron-Cohen's cousin is actor- comedian Sacha Baron-Cohen. In The Eichmann Trial (Schocken/ Nextbook), published on the 50th anni- versary of the groundbreaking Nazi war- criminal trial in Israel, Deborah E. Lipstadt covers Eichmann's capture in Argentina by Israeli agents, profiles the prosecutors and judges, highlights the significance of the testimony of survivors and looks at the influence of Hannah Arendt and her views. Sacred Trask The Lost and Found World of the Cairo Geniza (Schocken/Nextbook), by Adina Hoffman and Peter Cole, chronicles the discovery of a magnificent medieval Egyptian geniza, or repository for worn-out texts, a veritable treasure-house of Jewish religion, literature and history that was forgotten for centuries, and of the extraordinary crew of scholars (including Solomon Schechter) who saved the docu- ments and fitted the scraps back together, Italian Dishes & Pastas Fresh Se* od Fresh-Cut Steak Salad & Flat Pizza and More! providing a panoramic view of 900 years of vibrant Mediterranean Judaism. With access to more than 6,000 docu- ments, letters and photos found in the attic in the Basel home of Helene Elias, the sister of Anne Frank's father, Otto Frank, German author Mirjam Pressler has writ- ten Treasures from the Attic (Doubleday), shedding new light on Anne Frank, her diary and family. In The Chosen Peoples (Simon & Schuster), American author Todd Gitlin and Israeli writer Liel Leibovitz examine the special friendship between the U.S. and Israel — as well as the nations' past achievements and shortcomings, current challenges and future prospects — through the prism of their distinctive status as countries that each believe they were cho- sen by God to carry out a redemptive mis- sion. In a new biography of King Solomon, Solomon: The Lure of Wisdom (Yale University Press), Steven Weitzman looks anew at Solomon's life, offers answers to many questions about the accomplished and wise king and writes of his significance to Jews, Christians and Muslims. 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