Editor’s Choice
A Fraction of the Whole, by Steve Toltz, $24.95. At the heart of this sprawling, dizzying debut from a quirky, assured Australian writer are two men: Jasper Dean, a judgmental but forgiving son, and Martin, his brilliant but dysfunctional father. Comparisons to “Special Topics in Calamity Physics” are likely, but this nutty [...]
4
Mar
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22
Feb
MYSTERIES
Sometimes it takes a village to create a sinister atmosphere, and Jacqueline Winspear creates a particularly creepy one in An Incomplete Revenge (320 pages, Henry Holt, $24), the fifth entry in her series featuring psychologist-investigator Maisie Dobbs.
This time out, it’s 1931, and Maisie is asked by her friend James Compton to find out what [...]
15
Feb
In her witty debut novel, “The Kept Man,” Jami Attenberg tells the story of Jarvis Miller, a former Manhattan party girl who tends to her acclaimed painter husband, Martin, who has been in a coma for the past six years after falling off a ladder. As she grieves for her husband, the value of his [...]
15
Feb
In her witty debut novel, “The Kept Man,” Jami Attenberg tells the story of Jarvis Miller, a former Manhattan party girl who tends to her acclaimed painter husband, Martin, who has been in a coma for the past six years after falling off a ladder. As she grieves for her husband, the value of his [...]
10
Feb
FICTION
Are you lamenting the lack of recent books featuring mute, milk-loving giants? How about novels with albino spymasters who specialize in arson?
Good news: Your Gothic drought is about to end.
Jonathan Barnes’ oddity-stuffed %26quot;The Somnambulist%26quot; joins the current miniboom in novels sporting a Victorian setting and a period-accurate melodramatic mind-set.
Many of Barnes’ motifs and characters [...]
3
Feb
Editor’s Choice
Strangers in Death, by J.D. Robb, $25.95. In best seller Robb’s slick, 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007’s “Creation in Death”), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body is discovered tied to his bed. Publishers Weekly
Fiction [...]
3
Feb
Editor’s Choice
Strangers in Death, by J.D. Robb, $25.95. In best seller Robb’s slick, 26th not-so-near-future crime thriller to feature Lt. Eve Dallas (after 2007’s “Creation in Death”), the New York City homicide cop investigates the murder of business tycoon Thomas Anders, whose strangled body is discovered tied to his bed. Publishers Weekly
Fiction [...]
2
Feb
LONDON - Nobel literature laureate Doris Lessing, who greeted news of her victory with the words, “I couldn’t care less,” received her prize Wednesday night at a champagne reception in London.
The 88-year-old writer was still not entirely overwhelmed by the honor.
“There isn’t anywhere to go from here, is there?” she said, before thinking of one [...]
27
Jan
Military-crazy 14-year-old Loren’s gone too far this time. His latest “mission,” vandalizing the golf course where his mom’s new boyfriend works, caused $400,000 in damage. Loren’s mom calls him “sensitive,” but the boyfriend is calling for some punishment.
Enter “Colonel” E. Raymond Kellogg. His philosophy can be summed up as, “It’s always easier to [...]
20
Jan
In Berlin immediately after World War II, gangs of homeless, rapacious children roamed the rubble, living by their wits, their fists and any other way they could. Unscrupulous, nearly feral and as morally adrift as the boys in William Golding’s “Lord of the Flies,” they were neatly limned in Frederick Taylor’s 1991 novel, “The Kinder [...]
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