Books Khamraj “Chuck” Ramkissoon, a Trinidadian immigrant of Indian descent, is found floating facedown, murdered, in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. Chuck is a philosopher/schemer who dreams of ... More
Joseph O’Neill Netherland
A new novel set in post-9/11 New York simply isn’t cricket (it’s Seinfeld).
Books Khamraj “Chuck” Ramkissoon, a Trinidadian immigrant of Indian descent, is found floating facedown, murdered, in Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal. Chuck is a philosopher/schemer who dreams of ... More
Convictions, John Kroger
A Lewis & Clark law prof takes true-crime writing to a new level.
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
Louise Erdrich, The Plague Of Doves
The author of Love Medicine returns with another seamless, crazy quilt of a novel.
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
Wallace Stegner and the American West, Philip L. Fradkin
A new book tells how a bootlegger’s son shaped the West.
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
Jim Wallis The Great Awakening
A progressive evangelical’s new book will put his fans to sleep.
Books Jim Wallis’ previous book, God’s Politics , was a Book of Revelation for evangelical Christians whipsawed between the strident puritanism of the religious right and the alternative of sepa ... More
What Hath God Wrought:The Transformation of America, 1815-1848
A hefty new book telegraphs a vivid portrait of early 19th-century America.
Books A shadow falls in the American memory between the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War that ended in 1848. Where public memory—and high-school history teachers—have failed, UCLA histor ... More
Thirteen
The creator of Takeshi Kovacs returns with something old, something noir.
Books Richard K. Morgan explores the oldest theme in science fiction in his new novel, Thirteen (Del Rey, 544 pages, $24.95). Science fiction writers have been tinkering with the idea of the scientifically ... More
A Thousand Splendid Suns
The author of The Kite Runner compares wars civil and domestic.
Books Khaled Hosseini's first novel, The Kite Runner, struck a national nerve on so many levels it would be unfair to expect his second book, A Thousand Splendid Suns (Riverhead Books, 372 pages, $25.95), t ... More
The Ministry of Special Cases
A first novel about lost identity also loses readers.
Books The challenge in writing a novel about Argentina's "dirty war," in which a military junta "disappeared" some 30,000 people between 1976 and 1983, lies in maintaining the suspense (or at least a glimme ... More
Christine Falls
A Booker Prize winner writes a smart, if predictable, crime novel.
Books Benjamin Black is the pseudonym of Man Booker Prize-winning author John Banville. The Booker is a bit of a toff in the world of literary awards, limited to citizens of the British Commonwealth or the ... More
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Counting the costs of America’s “new birth of freedom.” Robert C. Donnelly Dark Rose
A soft-boiled history of vice rackets and crooked cops in the City of Bridges. Judyth Vary Baker, Me & Lee
Love means never having to say you shot the president. Neal Stephenson Reamde
Neal Stephenson writes another big black book. Thor Hanson Feathers
A Washington naturalist pens a book as light as his subject. Dana Haynes Crashers
The next terrorist mastermind will be Dilbert. Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino Chasing Aphrodite
R. Gregory Nokes Massacred For Gold
Anatomy of a (120-year-old) mass murder. Convictions, John Kroger
A Lewis & Clark law prof takes true-crime writing to a new level.
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