Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm: A New English Version
By Philip Pullman (Viking, $27.95)
Revisiting the Brothers Grimm 200 years after they collected their brilliant and
disturbing tales.
The Annotated Brothers Grimm: The Bicentennial Edition
Edited by Maria Tatar (Norton, $35)
A handsome volume, richly illustrated, full of wonderful facts and history.
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
By David Nasaw (Penguin, $40)
A biography that begs to be called “magisterial.”