Books “Convictions” carries a double meaning in the title of John Kroger’s new book (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 466 pages, $27). The first refers to Kroger’s successful prosecution of ...   More

Books Louise Erdrich once described her fiction as “a crazy quilt.” As in her previous books, Erdrich’s 13th novel, The Plague of Doves (Harper, 314 pages, $25.95), stitches together sever ...   More

Books Keith Gessen’s three characters (and perhaps the author, too) join an already overlarge generation of expensively educated, middle-aged men whose happiest period of life was college. Sociologica ...   More

Books The sequel to Portlander Acito’s 2004 coming-of-gay comedy How I Paid for College (Broadway, 356 pages, $12.95) finds its self-obsessed protagonist, Edward Zanni, kicked out of Juilliard, workin ...   More

Books Bay Area-based author Mary Roach is no stranger to topics both arcane and stomach-turning. Her fascinating 2003 book Stiff tackled the “Curious Lives of Human Cadavers”; two years later, S ...   More

Books Robyn Scott’s memoir, Twenty Chickens for a Saddle (Penguin Press, 464 pages, $24.95), is a vegan Swiss Family Robinson, complete with its own campy theme song: a region-specific adaptation of & ...   More

Books Ernest Hemingway said, “All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they really happened.” Translation: if you’re not getting an authentic experience from your fiction, b ...   More

Books Katie Crouch is restoring our faith in fiction. Her debut novel, Girls in Trucks, packs all the punch of a real, live Gen X memoir—but get this, it never happened. In the book, former debutante ...   More

Books March is Women’s History Month. It is Greek-American Month, Irish-American Month, Native American Heritage Month, Caffeine Awareness Month, Music In Our Schools Month, Mental Retardation Month a ...   More

Books One measure of success for a book like Philip L. Fradkin’s Wallace Stegner and the American West (Knopf, 369 pages, $27.50) is whether it inspires readers to take up books by the biographer&rsqu ...   More