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February 28, 2011

A Posthumous Confession

By MARCELLUS EMANTS, Translated by J. M. Coetzee
Reviewed by Amelia Atlas

A Dostoevskian tale of murderer, newly translated by the Nobel Prize-winning author of Disgrace.

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February 16, 2011

Embroidered Ground

By PAGE DICKEY
Reviewed by Peter Lewis

A dedicated author and gardener shines new light on her three-acre masterpiece.

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February 14, 2010

I Think I Love You

By ALISON PEARSON
Reviewed by Veronique de Turenne

Adolescent anxieties and popstar pinups are at the heart of this tale of a girl's coming of age and first love.

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February 10, 2011

A Red Herring Without Mustard

By ALAN BRADLEY
Reviewed by Alice Gregory

An eleven-year-old sleuth cycles through 1950s England, in pursuit of a gypsy's murderer.

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February 7, 2011

The Poison Tree

By ERIN KELLY
Reviewed by Anna Mundow

A chilling tale of crime and consequences set amid the pleasure-seekers of 1990s London.

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Daybook

June 19: On this day in 1816, the Shelleys, Lord Byron, and entourage gathered at the Villa Diodati on Lake Geneva to tell the ghost stories that would trigger Frankenstein. This most legendary of storm-tossed evenings inspired…

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Previously in Daybook
In the Margin

Very few debut novels exhibit the charm, assurance, emotional depth and bravura fabulation which the lucky reader will discover in Helene Wecker's

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The Long List
Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now
The New York Review Abroad

This new collection of some of the best of overseas reportage includes articles from Joan Didion, Tim Judah and Susan Sontag, with topics ranging from impromptu theater in conflict-ridden Sarajevo to a gravediggers’ strike in Liverpool. 

Hour of the Red God

In this searing African crime novel, former Maasai warrior Detective Mollel must defy a corrupt Nairobi government to solve the case of a murdered tribe woman.

The Wonder Bread Summer

This Tarantino-esque thriller finds shop girl Allie and a Wonder Bread bag full of cocaine on the run from a vindictive hit man - after she discovers her dress shop is a front for a narcotics ring.