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SEPT. 17, 2012
Red meat for Welsh cultists, but a heavy load for anybody else. Full review >
OCT. 23, 2012
A sharp-tongued, sweet-natured masterpiece of Jewish family life. Full review >
SEPT. 11, 2012
The evocation of “Useless, by James Joyce” attests to the humor and ambition of the novel, as if this were a Joyce-an remix... Full review >
AUG. 24, 2012
Nobel Peace Prize winner Wiesel continues to remind us of the brilliant possibilities of the philosophical and political... Full review >
SEPT. 11, 2012
Chet, who continues as narrator in this exciting fifth installment of the series (The Dog Who Knew Too Much, 2011, etc.),... Full review >
AUG. 21, 2012
A fictional debut for a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, born and raised in West Virginia, whose love for the state,... Full review >
SEPT. 11, 2012
Not as ambitious as Díaz’s Pulitzer Prize winner, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007), but sharply observed and... Full review >
SEPT. 15, 2012
An absorbing update of the classic film, D.O.A., that finds its author so completely in the zone that not a word is wasted,... Full review >
SEPT. 18, 2012
What may seem to some like paradise offers no happy endings in this fine novel. Full review >
AUG. 28, 2012
Elliptical and often oracular, but also remarkably penetrating and humane. The most illuminating analogies are not to other... Full review >
SEPT. 11, 2012
Earnest and life-affirming, but a bit too tame. Full review >
AUG. 14, 2012
Like Mary Cassatt, Lippman studies families with a different eye than her male contemporaries, showing the heartbreaking... Full review >
OCT. 2, 2012
Power, lust and moral ambiguity combine for an all-American explosion of fictional fireworks. Full review >
SEPT. 25, 2012
A captivating and absorbing read. Full review >
SEPT. 18, 2012
An entertaining historical soap opera. Full review >
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