Carolyn Alessio

ANNE FRANK By Melissa Muller Metropolitan Books, 330 pages, $23 In this first biography of the legendary, luminous diarist, German journalist Melissa Muller provides us with a detailed account of...

AN EMBARRASSMENT OF TYRANNIES Edited by W.L. Webb and Rose Bell George Braziller, 347 pages, $30 Writing about political oppression often proves didactic, but this collection of prose from the...

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Edited by Gerard Stropnicky, Tom Byrn, James Goode and Jerry Matheny Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 270 pages, $14 Observation, invective and praise combine in this fascinating cornucopia...

CROSSING BORDERS By Rigoberta Menchu, translated and edited by Ann Wright Verso, 242 pages, $25 Rigoberta Menchu, Guatemalan Indian activist and recipient of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, offers a...

SIGNS Photos by Walker Evans, essay by Andrei Codrescu The J. Paul Getty Museum, 69 pages, $19.95 In addition to chronicling life in the Depression-era South, photographer Walker Evans documented...

THE FATHER OF SPIN By Larry Tye Crown, 306 pages, $27.50 Edward L. Bernays, the "father of public relations" and a nephew of Sigmund Freud, guided a variety of major...

HAVANA DREAMS By Wendy Gimbel Knopf, 234 pages, $24 Politics and eloquent prose merge in this account of the life of Naty Revuelta, a Cuban socialite housewife who had an...

AND BOTH SHALL ROW By Beth Lordan Picador, 178 pages, $21 Beth Lordan writes about small-town life with authority and grace. Even cows are afforded dignity in this collection of...

Contralto Marian Anderson sings her famous 1939 concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, Fred Friendly recalls the production of the 1954 "See It Now" TV broadcast that helped...

O PIONEER! By Frederik Pohl TOR, 254 pages, $21.95 In this latest science fiction novel by Chicagoland author Frederik Pohl, a clever computer hacker named Evesham Giyt leaves Wichita, Kan.,...