'The Daemon Knows'
By HAROLD BLOOM
Reviewed by CYNTHIA OZICK
"The Daemon Knows," Harold Bloom's newest work of oracular criticism, contains close readings of 12 writers, including Whitman, Melville, Emerson and Faulkner.
Edna O'Brien: By the Book
The author, most recently, of "The Love Object" says Joyce staked his claim on Dublin, and it was left to Yeats, J. M. Synge and Beckett "to give us the landscape of the country in all its beauty, savagery, ghostliness and loneliness."
'England and Other Stories'
By GRAHAM SWIFT
Reviewed by VALERIE MARTIN
The stories in Graham Swift's collection find Englishmen at vulnerable points in their lives.
'Do No Harm'
By HENRY MARSH
Reviewed by JEROME GROOPMAN
A neurosurgeon's account combines biography, descriptions of operations and considerations of policy.
'The Book of Aron'
By JIM SHEPARD
Reviewed by GERALDINE BROOKS
A poor family seeks opportunity in Warsaw, only to be swept up in the Nazi invasion.
'The Rocks'
By PETER NICHOLS
Reviewed by KATE CHRISTENSEN
A novel traces a couple's long estrangement, then their courtship.
'Women of Will' and 'Shakespeare and the Countess'
By ALAN RIDING
Were Shakespeare's women characters shaped by his personal experience?
'The Millionaire and the Bard'
By ANDREA E. MAYS
Reviewed by STEPHEN GREENBLATT
Henry Folger set out to purchase as many First Folios as he could - and succeeded.
'Man in Profile'
By THOMAS KUNKEL
Reviewed by BLAKE BAILEY
A biography of Joseph Mitchell attempts to explain one of literary history's "greatest disappearing acts."
'Medicine Walk'
By RICHARD WAGAMESE
Reviewed by LIAM CALLANAN
In Richard Wagamese's novel, a young Indian and his ailing, estranged father venture into the wild.
'Gutshot'
By AMELIA GRAY
Reviewed by RAMONA AUSUBEL
These stories test the reader's ability to accept dark desires.
'The Distant Marvels'
By CHANTEL ACEVEDO
Reviewed by SHAJ MATHEW
Waiting out a hurricane, an old woman recounts her family's history in Cuba.
'God Is Not Here'
By BILL RUSSELL EDMONDS
Reviewed by LINDA ROBINSON
A former military adviser in Iraq struggles to adjust to postwar life after enduring the moral complexities of combat.
'The Familiar'
By MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI
Reviewed by TOM LeCLAIR
Mark Z. Danielewski's experimental novel - the first in a planned 27-part series - unfolds on the same rainy day in May.
Critic's Take
Subversive Pleasure
By KELLY LINK
Angela Carter died in 1992, and many of the elements of her stories have become commonplace in fiction
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