Book Review: The Great Zoo of China
/A small group of Americans visit a super-secret Chinese nature-park with a very unusual star attraction.
Read MoreBook Review: Turtle Face and Beyond
/The author of "Dogwalker" returns with a new collection of interlinked short stories that revel in their own straight-faced absurdity
Read MoreBook Review: Unbecoming
/In this arresting debut, a young woman working in Paris is hiding from her past - and she worries that the old friends she betrayed are hunting her.
Read MoreBook Review: The extraordinary journey of the fakir who got trapped in an Ikea wardrobe
/A slim picaresque novel that was a runaway bestseller in France gets a stylish English-language translation
Read MoreBook Review: Galapagos Regained
/A true believer in the tenets of Darwinism in the 19th Century goes on what amounts to a pilgrimage to that great Darwinian destination, the Galapagos Islands, in James Morrow's glowing new novel
Read MoreBook Review: White Plague
/Only one man can possibly save a plague- and fire-stricken sub that's burning and adrift at the top of the world ...
Read MoreHarm Him, Harm Me
/Historical novelist Andrew Levkoff stuffs the last installment of his "Bow of Heaven" trilogy with battles, love, loyalty betrayed, crucifixion, cross-purposes, loyalty regained, and deep reflections on what it all means.
Read MoreTitle Menu: A list of great political books that doesn't include What It Takes by Richard Ben Cramer
/Just in time for the November midterm elections, we do what doubters said couldn't be done: we present you with a list of ten great political books that doesn't include Richard Ben Cramer's What It Takes.
Read MoreBook Review: The Dog
/A fascinating debut collection of short stories set in modern China
Read MoreBonfire of the Inanities
/A murder, a trip to the dump, and oh yah - September 11. That wacky Thomas Pynchon is at it again!
Read MoreA Chip off the Old Bwana
/How do you follow up on creating Tarzan of the Apes? You give the Ape-Man a son, stranding him in the jungle, and sending him out on hair-raising adventures of his own. And if you're lucky, a legendary comic book artist will come along and draw it all.
Read MoreKeeping Up with the Tudors: Him Again
/In the famous jingle 'divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived,' Katherine Parr comes last - the sixth wife of King Henry VIII. But she was far more than that - scholar, regent, and passionate young woman - as a new Tudor historical novel attempts to portray
Read MoreAbsent Friends: “Warm, funny, sad, true … It is Perfect”
/"The proper function of a critic is to save a tale from the artist who created it" wrote D. H. Lawrence, but sometimes - most of the time - despite the best efforts of the best critics, both tale and artist disappear. What do we do with the criti-cal darlings of yesteryear, now filling the library bargain sale? And what of the critics, who called them imperishable?
Read MoreEntitled to Extravagance: Some Historical Fictions of Anthony Burgess
/Some of Anthony Burgess' most accomplished inventions roam into the past, to Shakespeare and Marlowe's England and Jesus' Judea. How well has his historical fiction stood up across the years?
Read MoreBook Review: The Exceptions
/The son of a powerful crime family falls in love with a young woman in the Witness Protection Program - a young woman his family wants dead! Don't you hate it when that happens?
Read MoreWife Number Five
/Teenage Catherine Howard weds the older and ailing Henry VIII to serve her family's ambition, and uses her status to take lovers of her own - risking everything. Novelist Suzannah Dunn spins a fine tale out of the girl's brief rise and fall.
Read MoreOn the Bunny Slopes of Helicon
/Steven Moore's big new book seeks to give an 'alternative history' to that most familiar of literary forms, the novel. But at what point does history become wishful thinking?
Read More#10
/In our second annual Fiction Bestseller List feature, our writers temporarily put aside their dogeared copies of Hume and Mann, roll up their sleeves, and dig into the ten bestselling novels in the land as of September 6, 2009 – in the tranquil days before a certain Dan Brown novel began tromping all over that list like Godzilla in downtown Tokyo. Before you spend your hard-earned money at the bookstore, join us in a tour of the way we read now.
Read MoreA Review of A Naked Singularity
/If a book of this unsettling oddness and power can be found, virtually at random, on the lists of one self-publish print-on-demand outfit, we might well lie awake wondering what else we're missing, out there in the sprawling infinitude of computers and ISBNs.
Read MoreBook Review: American Wife
/Neither of Curtis Sittenfeld’s two previous books, Prep or The Man of My Dreams , gave her readers any hint of the subtlety, wit, and sheer storytelling power that is so abundantly on display in her latest novel. Steve Donoghue dives in.
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