Complete book coverage for Sunday, Feb. 1, 2009

In poetry debut collections by Matthew Dickman and Valzhyna Mort, we experience a ferocious awareness of the past and present.

The proposition: that Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin can be linked in the transforming effect they had.

Lincoln certainly transcended his historical moment to speak for all times, but lest we forget, he was human too.

The plight of a great American music star, though no one remembers him now.

A noted film critic offers a memoir of growing up in wartime and postwar Britain.

The novel’s crude humor is used like a blunt and effective satirical instrument.

Sum Forty Tales From the Afterlives David Eagleman Pantheon: 128 pp., $20 Something interesting almost always happens when thinkers with a scientific bent write fiction.

Graphic novel depicts the author’s dreams in Surrealistic form.

Fiction weeks on list1.Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $19.99) Bella must choose between her lover and a friend, between life and death. 28 2.Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer (Little, Brown: $22.99) The final book in the “Twilight” saga finds Bella choosing immortality.25 3.Plum Spooky by Janet Evanovich (St.

Fiction 1. Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates ($14.95) 2. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer ($10.99) 3.

Author and literary event listings for the week of Feb. 1, 2009