‘Canada’
By RICHARD FORD
Reviewed by ANDRE DUBUS III
David Plowden
In Richard Ford’s novel, a teenage boy’s life is changed when his parents make the unlikely decision to rob a bank.
John Irving: By the Book
The author, most recently, of the novel “In One Person” has little desire to meet other writers. “It’s better to read a good writer than meet one,” he says.‘People Who Eat Darkness’
By RICHARD LLOYD PARRY
Reviewed by SUSAN CHIRA
An account of the murder of a young British woman in Japan.
‘A Difficult Woman: The Challenging Life and Times of Lillian Hellman’
By ALICE KESSLER-HARRIS
Reviewed by DONNA RIFKIND
A historian’s study of the dramatist with a genius for the concise phrase and the provocative gesture.
‘College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be’
By ANDREW DELBANCO
Reviewed by MICHAEL S. ROTH
A professor deplores the current state of colleges.
‘The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat’
By THOMAS MCNAMEE
Reviewed by CORBY KUMMER
Thomas McNamee traces the career of Craig Claiborne, the food critic who expanded the culinary horizons of American home cooks.
‘The Hunger Angel’
By HERTA MÜLLER
Reviewed by RICHARD STERN
Herta Müller’s novel of a Soviet labor camp.
‘The Chaperone’
By LAURA MORIARTY
Reviewed by JENNY HENDRIX
In Laura Moriarty’s novel, a Midwestern matron accompanies young Louise Brooks to New York in the summer of 1922.
‘The Lair’
By NORMAN MANEA
Reviewed by STEVEN HEIGHTON
Norman Manea explores the implications of exile in this novel about Romanian intellectuals living in the United States.
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