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Three New Books We Like

Cupcake

Crazy Like Us

Way of the World

Cupcake
by Charise Mericle Harper

It was only a matter of time before the cupcake craze trickled down to childrens' books. Luckily, this sweet book does it right. If you have a 2-5 year-old child in your life, give them this colorful tale of the cupcake finding its perfect topping.

Crazy Like Us: the Globalization of the American Psyche
by Ethan Watters

Here's just the kind of compelling journalism currently threatened by the trouble in the newspaper industry but explored in great depth in this book: it seems America is exporting not only Disney movies and fast food, but our neuroses, diagnoses, and treatments of mental illness. This book looks at four phenomena in proposing its thesis, like the rise of anorexia in Hong Kong and the shifting mask of schizophrenia in Zanzibar.

Way of the World

by Nicolas Bouvier and Thierry Vernet

Bouvier's unpretentious and wonder-filled memoir of a trip he and a friend, the artist Thierry Vernat, took from Geneva to the Khyber Pass in a convertible Fiat in 1953-54, is a masterpiece of travel literature. Permitting themselves a single luxury, slowness, the pair traveled through a now vanished world, and the record of their adventures proves the difference between travelers and tourists. This books gets Green Apple's highest stamp of approval.