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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 >
JUNE 19, 2012
Even so, Eggers’ fiction has evolved in the past decade. This book is firm proof that social concerns can make for resonant... Full review >
OCT. 2, 2012
This second novel in a planned trilogy lacks the breadth and richness of Erdrich at her best, but middling Erdrich is still... Full review >
MAY 1, 2012
War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. Full review >
SEPT. 11, 2012
Powers writes with a rawness that brings the sights and smells as well as the trauma and decay of war home to the reader. Full review >
NOV. 27, 2012
A dark but hopeful chronicle that shows how even humanity’s worst can fracture and fall. Full review >
FEB. 7, 2012
The best book yet written on India in the throes of a brutal transition. Full review >
MAY 1, 2012
JULY 3, 2012
A finely detailed, sentimental family scrapbook inscribed with love. Full review >
FEB. 28, 2012
A complicated, elegiac, beautiful attempt to reconcile the physical bayt (home) and the spiritual. Full review >
MARCH 6, 2012
The result is wryly humorous and bearably yet excitingly menacing: Even while much is left unexplained, Rownie’s triumph is... Full review >
OCT. 16, 2012
The final pages offer a hopeful conclusion to Rachel’s even bigger search—for herself. Full review >
MAY 8, 2012
Though it lacks references or suggestions for further reading, Arn's agonizing story is compelling enough that many readers... Full review >
NOV. 1, 2012
SEPT. 4, 2012
A superb tale of an era and an effort that forever changed our world. Full review >
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