Written and
illustrated by JULES FEIFFER
Reviewed by LAURA LIPPMAN
Jules
Feiffer's graphic novel is a tribute to film noir and detective fiction.
Also in the Book
Review
 The
author of the Discworld series - most recently, "Raising Steam" -
read "The Wind in the Willows" and "just exploded":
"I thought to myself, This is a lie, but what a fabulous lie!"
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By LUCINDA FRANKS
Reviewed by KATI MARTON
Lucinda
Franks's memoir of her marriage is a tribute to her husband.
 By MARY GORDON
Reviewed by VALERIE MARTIN
In
Mary Gordon's novellas, serenity is upended and sheltered lives become tinged
with misgivings.
By HAMPTON SIDES
Reviewed by ROBERT R. HARRIS
In
1879, backed by a wealthy American newspaper magnate, 33 men embarked on an
ill-fated expedition to the North Pole.
 By RICHARD BAUSCH
Reviewed by KATHRYN HARRISON
Richard
Bausch's novel, about a relationship under strain, mixes personal and public
horrors.
By BETH MACY
Reviewed by MIMI SWARTZ
The
American furniture maker who battled Wall Street, Chinese competition and his
own relatives to keep his company going.
 By CHELSEA CAIN
Reviewed by ADAM LeBOR
Chelsea
Cain's new heroine can't escape her past.
By LYDIA NETZER
Reviewed by ALENA GRAEDON
Children
are raised to become soul mates in this novel.
By CELESTE NG
Reviewed by ALEXANDER CHEE
A
tragedy tears away at a mixed-race family in 1970s Ohio.
By JAMES LEE BURKE
Reviewed by STEPHEN HARRIGAN
James
Lee Burke's sprawling novel connects an encounter with Bonnie and Clyde to
the Battle of the Bulge and the oil boom.
 By STEVEN PARISSIEN
Reviewed by JACLYN TROP
A
history of the automobile and the boom-and-bust industry it fostered.
By ANDREW LEWIS CONN
Reviewed by MARTHA SOUTHGATE
In
1928, two brothers head to Africa to collect film footage.
By COURTNEY MAUM
Reviewed by HALEY TANNER
An
unfaithful artist attempts to win back his wife's affection.
By LAWRENCE JAMES
Reviewed by GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
A
study of Winston Churchill's contradictions and passions and his long
relationship with empire.
By WILLIAM T.
VOLLMANN
Reviewed by KATE BERNHEIMER
In
their exploration of mortality and desire, William T. Vollmann's stories
often inhabit supernatural realms.
By NATALIE YOUNG
Reviewed by JAN STUART
A
British housewife kills her husband. Then she eats him.
By YELENA
AKHTIORSKAYA
Reviewed by KAROLINA WACLAWIAK
As
a Ukrainian family adapts to life in Brooklyn, memories of the old country
linger.
By ROBIN BLACK
Reviewed by MARY POLS
An
attempt to save a marriage proves fatal.
By MARY LAWSON
Reviewed by DIANE MEHTA
A
family struggles to cope after its take-charge daughter flees.
Crime
By MARILYN STASIO
In
Rennie Airth's "The Reckoning," a former Scotland Yard detective
comes out of retirement to assist in the investigation of killings committed
with the same pistol.
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