'The Meursault Investigation'
By KAMEL DAOUD. Translated by JOHN CULLEN.
Reviewed by LAILA LALAMI
Daoud's inventive novel looks at Albert Camus's "The Stranger" with new eyes.
Judd Apatow: By the Book
The screenwriter, director and author of "Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy," owns a lot of books. "I have actually convinced myself that buying books is the same as reading."
'The Sunken Cathedral'
By KATE WALBERT
Reviewed by EMILY EAKIN
Threats, real and imagined, loom in the lives of restive New Yorkers.
'Stalin's Daughter'
By ROSEMARY SULLIVAN
Reviewed by OLGA GRUSHIN
Stalin's daughter tried to escape his shadow by defecting to the United States.
'The Love Object'
By EDNA O'BRIEN
Reviewed by JOHN CASEY
Edna O'Brien's tales trace a nation gripped by tradition and change.
'Backlands'
By VICTORIA SHORR
Reviewed by ANDREA WULF
Led by a charismatic, one-eyed rebel and his lover, an outlaw gang roams the Brazilian badlands in the 1920s and '30s.
'Saint Mazie'
By JAMI ATTENBERG
Reviewed by MARJORIE INGALL
Jami Attenberg's novel, inspired by a 1940 New Yorker profile, centers on a bawdy, bighearted woman in Depression-era New York.
'The Fixer'
By JOSEPH FINDER
Reviewed by KEN TUCKER
A reporter is drawn into a family mystery when he finds millions in his father's home.
'The Architect's Apprentice'
By ELIF SHAFAK
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER ATAMIAN
An elephant trainer becomes an apprentice to the Ottoman Empire's chief architect.
'The Dorito Effect'
By MARK SCHATZKER
Reviewed by TAMAR ADLER
Food producers focus on factors such as yield, at the expense of flavor.
'How to Bake Pi'
By EUGENIA CHENG
Reviewed by ALEX BELLOS
Recipes for tapping the logic and beauty of mathematics.
'Move: Putting America's Infrastructure Back in the Lead'
By ROSABETH MOSS KANTER
Reviewed by JOHN SCHWARTZ
What it will take to fix America's crumbling infrastructure.
'The Story of Alice'
By ROBERT DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST
Reviewed by MICHAEL WOOD
A look at three very different lives: Lewis Carroll's, Alice Liddell's and that of the literary creation they both had a part in.
'A Complex Fate'
By KEN CUTHBERTSON
Reviewed by NICHOLAS KULISH
A new biography traces an arc from intrepid foreign correspondent to blacklist victim to mega-best-selling author.
'Léon Blum: Prime Minister, Socialist, Zionist'
By PIERRE BIRNBAUM. Translated by ARTHUR GOLDHAMMER.
Reviewed by MITCHELL COHEN
Léon Blum led France to reform in the Depression era.
'It Starts With Trouble'
By CLARK DAVIS
Reviewed by LOUIS BAYARD
William Goyen's work harks back to his East Texas roots.
Author's Note
Surveillance States
By AZAR NAFISI
The author of "Reading Lolita in Tehran" on writing under the eye of a watchful government.
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