Books Train by Pete Dexter (Doubleday, 352 pages, $26)Puget Sound-based Pete Dexter writes a novel unnerving enough to make any reader squirm. He channels this tension into a soul-gripping story played ...   More

Books saul and patsy by Charles Baxter (Pantheon, 317 pages, $24)Some reviewers are waxing rhapsodic over this novel, and it's easy to see why, as Baxter writes skillfully, at times brilliantly. But for ...   More

Books In the late 1940s, Elizabeth Bentley's name was splattered across front pages all over America. She was originally described as a lithe blonde, the embodiment of mystery and intrigue. Later it bec ...   More

Books A street brawl. That's what the New York Post's Page Six called it. On Jan. 30, members of an aggressively confrontational group, the Underground Literary Alliance, descended on an NYC literary re ...   More

Books the miracle by John L'Heureux (Atlantic Monthly Press, 221 pages, $24)The author wisely names his central character Father LeBlanc, and a blank he is. This young Catholic priest appears as a wrait ...   More