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Summer Fiction, Summer Not
Six new releases to kick back with this season
Reviewed by Monica Riese, May. 16, 2013
Life After Life
Kate Atkinson
Reviewed by Amy Gentry, May. 16, 2013
The Science Delusion
Curtis White
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, May. 16, 2013
The Son
Philipp Meyer
Reviewed by Jaime deBlanc-Knowles, May. 16, 2013
You
Austin Grossman
Reviewed by James Renovitch, May. 16, 2013
And the Mountains Echoed
Khaled Hosseini
Reviewed by Jessi Cape, May. 16, 2013
Red Moon
Benjamin Percy
Reviewed by Josh Kupecki, May. 16, 2013
Summer Fiction
Hackers, heretics, and spies, oh my
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Jun. 14, 2012
The Age of Miracles
Karen Thompson Walker
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Jun. 14, 2012
Alif the Unseen
G. Willow Wilson
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Jun. 14, 2012
The Book of Khalid
Ameen Rihani
Reviewed by Jessi Cape, Jun. 14, 2012
In the Kingdom of Men
Kim Barnes
Reviewed by Jay Trachtenberg, Jun. 14, 2012
Bellringer: A St-Cyr and Kohler Mystery
J. Robert Janes
Reviewed by Jesse Sublett, Jun. 14, 2012
Mission to Paris
Alan Furst
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Jun. 14, 2012
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 1: From 'The Epic of Gilgamesh' to Shakespeare to 'Dangerous Liaisons'
Russ Kick
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Jun. 14, 2012
Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
Gift Guide: Coffeetable Saul Bass
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Dec. 1, 2011
Steve McQueen: The Actor and His Films
Gift Guide: Coffee-table Steve McQueen
Reviewed by Marjorie Baumgarten, Dec. 1, 2011
The Stranger's Child
Alan Hollinghurst
Reviewed by Sarah Smith, Oct. 20, 2011
The Visible Man
Chuck Klosterman
Reviewed by Audra Schroeder, Oct. 20, 2011
When She Woke
Hillary Jordan
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Oct. 20, 2011
Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good
Steven Fenberg
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Oct. 20, 2011
The Outlaw Album
Daniel Woodrell
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Oct. 20, 2011
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Siddhartha Deb
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Oct. 20, 2011
How To Do Things With Videogames
With minimal tech jargon, Ian Bogost explores how games have become embedded in all aspects of our lives
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Sep. 29, 2011
Steplings: A Novel
Kids prove better at adapting than parents when they run away from home
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Sep. 22, 2011
East of the West: A Country in Stories
If you have to staycation, at least see the world via books
Reviewed by Sarah Smith, Jul. 28, 2011
The Book of Happenstance
Translating obsession
Reviewed by Monica Riese, Jul. 7, 2011
The Sisters Brothers
A black-comic picaresque set in Gold Rush country
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Jun. 23, 2011
The Astral
Where's the drama in this family drama?
Reviewed by James Renovitch, Jun. 23, 2011
After Midnight
The rise of Nazism slowly affects a partying 19-year-old in Germany
Reviewed by Sarah Smith, Jun. 16, 2011
Eleven
'Life isn't so neat' in British comic Mark Watson's novel
Reviewed by Monica Riese, Jun. 16, 2011
New in Graphic Novels
These are two books so ripe with sex, it's as if the subject has fermented in the pages
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Jun. 9, 2011
May Releases: 'Remember Ben Clayton'
Stephen Harrigan
Reviewed by Michael King, May. 26, 2011
May Releases: 'The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield'
H.W. Brands
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, May. 26, 2011
Bright Before Us
A mutilated body on a beach sends an elementary school teacher into a tailspin
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, May. 5, 2011
The Lake
A dark horse for pre-summer beach reading
Reviewed by James Renovitch, May. 5, 2011
The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books
A refreshing surprise in these days of lit-scene doom and gloom
Reviewed by Wayne Alan Brenner, Apr. 14, 2011
The Tragedy of Arthur
This novel shows an impressive commitment to presenting an entirely real-feeling fake
Reviewed by Kimberley Jones, Apr. 14, 2011
Montecore
Montecore shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard
Reviewed by Sarah Smith, Mar. 31, 2011
What You See in the Dark
Manuel Muñoz's first novel spins haunting fiction out of an Alfred Hitchcock film shoot
Reviewed by Belinda Acosta, Mar. 24, 2011
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