Michael Sragow puts Victor Fleming, the director of “The Wizard of Oz” and “Gone With the Wind, ” in perspective, giving him his rightful due without falsely exaggerating his importance.br/br/span a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/books/16basi.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/books/16basi.html” border=”0″//a/span

A novel about love — parental, romantic and sexual.br/br/span a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Russo-t.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Russo-t.html” border=”0″//a/span

A review of the last book by Jack Falla, who died earlier this year and was one of the last of a breed — a very good hockey writer who never burned out or became cynical.br/br/span a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/two-minutes-for-booking-a-hockey-lifers-farewell/index.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://slapshot.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/two-minutes-for-booking-a-hockey-lifers-farewell/index.html” border=”0″//a/span

The life and ideas of Giordano Bruno, a futuristic thinker burned at the stake for heresy in 1600.br/br/span a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Gottlieb-t.html” border=”0″//a/span

Gustav Niebuhr reports on the state of interreligious efforts in America.br/br/span a href=”http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Woodward-t.html”img src=”http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=77abd2b10a734395973631333fdbb371u=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/books/review/Woodward-t.html” border=”0″//a/span