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Reviews & Essays

No One Is Here Except All of Us

As war looms, a Romanian village chooses to reimagine the world.

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Watergate

The infamous cover-up  -- and the gossip surrounding it -- is at the heart of a novel about men and women vying for power.

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Girl Reading

A debut novel hints at connections between seven bookish women scattered through time.

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A Reading Life

At Last

The final volume in the author's celebrated Patrick Melrose cycle faces pain with wit and unflinching honesty.

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From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

A wannabe-fashionista becomes a victim of national-security paranoia in this darkly comic novel.

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Spring: A Novel

"Insecurity and uncertainty rule the day" in this portrait of a love affair.

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A Reading Life

The Orphan Master's Son

The story of a professional kidnapper's life takes on a surreal edge in the appropriately nightmarish world of North Korea.

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The Flame Alphabet

A plague of words tears ordinary life asunder in this heartrending fable.

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A Reading Life

A Good Man

Courage and slaughter, dreams and betrayals, in the shadow of Little Bighorn.

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The Last Nude

The true story of an artist and her model inspires a tale of obsession and its consequences.

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The Map and the Territory

The controversial French novelist has a little fun.

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Interview

Michael Ondaatje

Talking Mailer, Kipling, and Tranströmer with the author of The Cat's Table.

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The Truth about Marie

Mysteries of identity and the shadow of madness haunt the new novel from the author of Running Away.

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A Reading Life

The Sisters Brothers

Patrick deWitt's blackly comic western outdraws the competition.

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The Third Reich

A study in slow-burning suspense from the author of 2666.

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