Book reviews by title: V
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- Varieties of Javanese Religion (Andrew Beatty)
An Anthropological Account
- **A Vast Machine (Paul N. Edwards)
Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming
- *Vermeer's Milkmaid (Manuel Rivas)
- superb Galician short stories
- Very Good, Jeeves! (P.G. Wodehouse)
- **The Viceroy of Ouidah (Bruce Chatwin)
- a short but powerful novel of West Africa
- Vietnam (David Chanoff, Doan Van Toai)
A Portrait of its People at War
- Vietnam 1946 (Stein Tønnesson)
How the War Began
- Vietnam: A Natural History (Sterling, Hurley, Minh)
- biogeography, flora and fauna, and conservation
- The View from Afar (Claude Lévi-Strauss)
- essays and talks on topics anthropological
- Vignettes From the Late Ming (Yang Ye)
A Hsiao-p'in Anthology
- The Village (Ivan Bunin)
- a novel of rural life in 1905 Russia
- Village of Stone (Xiaolu Guo)
- a childhood in a remote Chinese fishing village
- Vincent's Starry Night and Other Stories (Michael Bird)
A Children's History of Art
- Vineland (Thomas Pynchon)
- Violence in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800 (Julius R. Ruff)
- a wide-ranging survey
- Viruses, Plagues, and History (Michael B. A. Oldstone)
Past, Present, and Future
- Viruses: A Very Short Introduction (Dorothy H. Crawford)
- *Visual Complex Analysis (Tristram Needham)
- a genuinely geometric perspective
- *The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward R. Tufte)
- the classic work on statistical graphics
- *The Vital Question (Nick Lane)
Why is life the way it is?
- *Vocabulary Building in Indonesian (Soenjono Dardjowidjojo)
An Advanced Reader
- The Voice of the Nightingale (Sabine Felmy)
A Personal Account of Wakhi Culture in Hunza
- *Voices From Chernobyl (Svetlana Alexievich)
The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
- *A Void (Georges Perec)
- a lipogram, a novel written without using the letter e
- Voyage to the End of the Room (Tibor Fischer)
- an entertaining and inventive novel
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