By MAT JOHNSON
Reviewed by BAZ DREISINGER
Mat Johnson's new novel tells a semi-autobiographical story about race and mixed-race in America.
The author, most recently, of "Finders Keepers" has never read Jane Austen. "I do not say this with either pride or shame (or prejudice, for that matter). It's just a fact."
By KENT HARUF
Reviewed by JOAN SILBER
Kent Haruf's final novel traces a budding late-in-life relationship.
By NELL ZINK
Reviewed by WALTER KIRN
Nell Zink's novel about the making and unmaking of an American family lays bare our assumptions about race and sexuality.
By H. W. BRANDS
Reviewed by JEFF SHESOL
A new biography tries to understand our elusive 40th president.
By ALEKSANDAR HEMON
Reviewed by DAVID GILBERT
Aleksandar Hemon's comic novel about alienation and the undead.
By CHRISTINE SNEED
Reviewed by ROBIN BLACK
A painter and a gallerist enter an open relationship.
By PHILIP GLASS
Reviewed by KYLE GANN
Philip Glass recalls his Baltimore childhood and the friends and teachers who influenced him.
By LAUREN ACAMPORA
Reviewed by ALIX OHLIN
These linked stories provide a group portrait of a WASPy town.
By JON PESSAH
Reviewed by MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT
Jon Pessah's "The Game" takes the first real crack at determining how Major League Baseball got through the tumultuous time between 1992 and 2010.
By BILL PENNINGTON
Reviewed by MAXWELL CARTER
Few in baseball have been as fiery, and as misunderstood, as Billy Martin.
By CHARLOTTE DECROES JACOBS
Reviewed by DAVID OSHINSKY
A biography of Jonas Salk, the first man to develop a vaccine against polio and a popular hero.
By MICHAEL PYE
Reviewed by RUSSELL SHORTO
Michael Pye sees the North Sea and its periphery as crucial to the development of Europe.
By PAMELA NEWKIRK
Reviewed by HARRIET A. WASHINGTON
In the early 1900s, Americans flocked to see the "African Pygmy."
By JIM GRIMSLEY
Reviewed by RANDALL KENAN
A novelist's coming-of-age in 1960s and '70s North Carolina.
By SYDNEY PADUA
Reviewed by LAUREN REDNISS
The real-life scientific career of Lord Byron's daughter provided the inspiration for this graphic novel.
By SARA NOVIC
Reviewed by ANTHONY MARRA
This first novel explores how the experience of war can be conveyed to those who don't know it.
By MARIAN PALAIA
Reviewed by VIOLET KUPERSMITH
Lives in the U.S. are turned upside down by the Vietnam War in this debut novel.
By CHRIS ADRIAN and ELI HOROWITZ
Reviewed by TAYLOR ANTRIM
A surgeon learns a shady company has her husband's head.
By ROBYN CADWALLADER
Reviewed by SARAH DUNANT
A teenager in medieval England becomes a religious hermit.
By KEN KALFUS
Reviewed by ANDREW SEAN GREER
This novella is a thinly - or not so thinly - veiled account of the Dominique Strauss-Kahn affair.
By ALINE OHANESIAN
Reviewed by ANDERSON TEPPER
A Turkish photographer must confront the past when his grandfather leaves the family home to an Armenian woman.
Crime
By MARILYN STASIO
The dashing protagonist of Goddard's historical espionage thriller is a refreshing throwback to an earlier romantic tradition of heroes.
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