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Picture This: The Near-Sighted Monkey Book
Wayne Alan Brenner, Dec. 3, 2010
The Hour: A Cocktail Manifesto
Kimberley Jones, Dec. 3, 2010
100 Dresses: The Costume Institute, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Anne Harris, Dec. 3, 2010
Exley: A Novel
This is a book that charms without seeming to try
Cindy Widner, Nov. 19, 2010
Bandit Love
Good wine and thugs, in translation
Katherine Smith, Nov. 19, 2010
I Shall Wear Midnight
In this fourth Tiffany Aching novel, the young witch becomes a woman
Richard Whittaker, Oct. 29, 2010
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel
This ingenious debut novel is set in a time-skipping future
Audra Schroeder, Oct. 29, 2010
The Widower's Tale: A Novel
A funny and subtle portrait of a family negotiating continuing crises from National Book Award-winner Julia Glass
Kimberley Jones, Oct. 8, 2010
Blood-Dark Track: A Family History
Reissue of Netherland author Joseph O'Neill's inquiry into his grandfathers' pasts
Jay Trachtenberg, Oct. 8, 2010
Hellhound on His Trail: The Stalking of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the International Hunt for His Assassin
Memphis native Sides is a great storyteller, and Hellhound often reads more like historical fiction than nonfiction
Nick Barbaro, Oct. 1, 2010
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
For the Comanche history novice, this is an entertaining and easy-to-read starting point, but not a very intellectually strenuous one
Ed Baker, Oct. 1, 2010
The Lady Matador's Hotel: A Novel
In this beautifully written short novel, García revisits the theme of cultural identity that arises from the isolation and dislocation from one's homeland
Jay Trachtenberg, Sep. 17, 2010
A Curable Romantic: A Novel
A twice-married virgin wanders sexually liberated Vienna and collides with – who else? – Freud
James Renovitch, Sep. 17, 2010
Zero History
The onetime king of modern sci-fi is becoming less Ray Bradbury and more John le Carré
Richard Whittaker, Sep. 10, 2010
To Hell With Cronjé
What makes this novel and its fresh English-language publication so timely is that its themes have become uncomfortably familiar
Richard Whittaker, Sep. 10, 2010
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings
James Baldwin, the oracular writer and spectacular wordsmith of mid-20th century America, is revivified in this new collection
Marjorie Baumgarten, Aug. 20, 2010
Listen to the Echoes: The Ray Bradbury Interviews
As important a book in its own way as François Truffaut's Hitchcock, Listen to the Echoes compiles dozens of hours of interviews Bradbury's biographer has conducted over the past several decades
Marc Savlov, Aug. 20, 2010
Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel
A funny and spine-shivering satire of the not-too-distant future
James Renovitch, Aug. 13, 2010
Captive Queen: A Novel of Eleanor of Aquitaine
More like the Cougar Queen: Historian Alison Weir's latest novel is a bodice-ripper
Margaret Moser, Aug. 13, 2010
The Thieves of Manhattan
Take this publishing industry satire to the beach, but don't turn your brain off just yet
James Renovitch, Aug. 6, 2010
Kings of the Earth
A farming family tragedy about brothers – and a brother's keeper
Richard Whittaker, Aug. 6, 2010
Sick City
This L.A. noir is fearless about naming, shaming, and spoofing brand-name burn-outs
Richard Whittaker, Jul. 23, 2010
Red Rain
Greed, muck, and strife at a Hudson River port in 1864
Richard Whittaker, Jul. 23, 2010
Gasoline
This Catalan novel, originally published in 1983, skewers New York's art scene in the Eighties
Jay Trachtenberg, Jul. 9, 2010
Pandora's Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
By establishing the facts of evolution – the where, when, why, and how of human, animal, and plant genetic selection, survival, and extinction – Wells proves that we are pretty much done with theories
Ed Baker, Jul. 9, 2010
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet: A Novel
From the author of Cloud Atlas, a tale of tenuous East/West relations in turn of the 19th century Japan
James Renovitch, Jul. 2, 2010
The Beaufort Diaries
An original, humane, and deeply funny novella about a polar bear making it big in L.A.
Cindy Widner, Jul. 2, 2010
Imperial Bedrooms
The question hanging over this sequel to Less Than Zero: Why?
Audra Schroeder, Jun. 18, 2010
Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels
This paperback collects all seven of the sprawling, epically Southern gothic Sailor & Lula stories
Marc Savlov, Jun. 18, 2010
The Finger: A Handbook
An enthralling account of the depictions and ramifications – social, theological, mercantile – of fingers through the ages
Wayne Alan Brenner, Jun. 11, 2010
Capital Punishment on Trial: 'Furman v. Georgia' and the Death Penalty in Modern America
UT prof David Oshinsky weaves a tight and compulsively readable account of the intersection of morality and legality in the jurisprudence of capital punishment
Jordan Smith, Jun. 11, 2010
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
Hornet's Nest still satisfies – especially in its revelation-larded final third – but it leaves one a little wistful for the gosh-wow newness of the first book
Kimberley Jones, May. 21, 2010
The Black Minutes
Everywhere you turn in this ambitious debut novel, there's the wretched stench of deceit and corruption
Jay Trachtenberg, May. 21, 2010
Between the Sheets: The Literary Liaisons of Nine 20th-Century Women Writers
Despite the often cruel behavior of their male counterparts, these famous women writers yearned above all for a creative mirror, an intellectual equal
Audra Schroeder, May. 7, 2010
Young Romantics: The Tangled Lives of English Poetry's Greatest Generation
It takes a village: This inquiry into the late-period Romantics debunks the idea of the individual artist as isolated, sui generis, and in torment
Kimberley Jones, May. 7, 2010
BodyWorld
Dash Shaw's new graphic novel is a twisted masterpiece of storytelling built from stunning visuals and panel-manipulation
Wayne Alan Brenner, Apr. 23, 2010
Performing/Guzzling
We know that Kim Gordon is expert at being watched, but this collection of her artwork turns the gaze around
Cindy Widner, Apr. 23, 2010
Murder City: Ciudad Juárez and the Global Economy's New Killing Fields
Murder City reads like a nightmare, a recurring one, and not just because of its horrific subject matter
Cindy Widner, Apr. 2, 2010
A Few Good Women: America's Military Women From World War I to the War in Iraq and Afghanistan
While the ambition to cover the history of women's service since World War I is noble, its delivery often overwhelms
Kate X Messer, Apr. 2, 2010
Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
Shields hereby kicks the dead horse of literary fiction in its rigor-mortis'd ass
Wayne Alan Brenner, Mar. 26, 2010
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