'The
Buried Giant'
By KAZUO ISHIGURO
Reviewed by NEIL GAIMAN
Neil Gaiman
reviews Kazuo Ishiguro's "The Buried Giant," a quest narrative set in
a mythical time of ogres, sprites and dragons.
Kim
Gordon: By the Book
The musician
and author of the memoir "Girl in a Band" is a fan of Joan Didion:
"How cool is it that Céline chose her for their new ad campaign? I want
those sunglasses."
'The
American Lover'
By ROSE TREMAIN
Reviewed by MARY GORDON
Rose
Tremain's stories of transgressive love, unfulfilled desires and souls laid
bare.
'Welcome
to Braggsville'
By T. GERONIMO JOHNSON
Reviewed by RICH BENJAMIN
College
students head South to stage a misbegotten intervention in this darkly comic
novel.
'Anonymous
Soldiers'
By BRUCE HOFFMAN
Reviewed by TOM SEGEV
An American
scholar asks whether the Jews or the Arabs forced the British to leave
Palestine.
'Green
on Blue'
By ELLIOT ACKERMAN
Reviewed by TOM BISSELL
A young
soldier from Afghanistan narrates this first novel by an American who served
several tours of duty there.
'The
Big Seven'
By JIM HARRISON
Reviewed by SMITH HENDERSON
An outlaw
clan terrorizes a town in the Upper Peninsula, and Jim Harrison's hapless
detective is caught in the crossfire.
'The
Italians'
By JOHN HOOPER
Reviewed by ELISABETTA POVOLEDO
The
Economist's Italy correspondent explains the confounding inner workings of the
Bel Paese.
'From
the New World'
By JORIE GRAHAM
Reviewed by CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER
Jorie
Graham's career-spanning selected poems show how she moved the art form
forward.
'We
Are Pirates'
By DANIEL HANDLER
Reviewed by SARA LEVINE
A father and
daughter pursue riches in the music world and on the open water in Daniel
Handler's comic novel.
'Find
Me'
By LAURA VAN DEN BERG
Reviewed by CARMELA CIURARU
Laura van den
Berg's heroine picks her way across an American wasteland, searching for the
mother who abandoned her.
'The
Age of Dignity'
By AI-JEN POO with
ARIANE CONRAD
Reviewed by LOUISE ARONSON
Changing how
society deals with caregiving.
'Hell
and Good Company'
By RICHARD RHODES
Reviewed by PAUL BERMAN
Richard
Rhodes offers an anecdotal - and technological - history of the Spanish Civil
War.
'The
Sex Lives of Siamese Twins'
By IRVINE WELSH
Reviewed by SLOANE CROSLEY
Irvine
Welsh's tale of abduction and mutual obsession.
'Why
Not Say What Happened'
By MORRIS DICKSTEIN
Reviewed by SUSIE LINFIELD
A memoir
mixes biography and intellectual history.
'After
Birth'
By ELISA ALBERT
Reviewed by MERRITT TIERCE
A novel
traces the changes brought by a baby's arrival.
Crime
Lene
Kaaberbol's 'Doctor Death,' and More
By MARILYN STASIO
New novels by
Lene Kaaberbol, Bryan Reardon, William Shaw and S. D. Sykes.
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