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JULY 12, 2011
The conflicts enmeshing all these characters, as each becomes embroiled in Marcus and India’s “assisted gestation” scheme,... Full review >
MAY 22, 2012
At the start of the novel’s coda, when Dell explains that he teaches his students “books that to me seem secretly about my... Full review >
JUNE 26, 2012
Riveting, heartbreaking, profoundly moving. Full review >
MAY 8, 2012
Goldberg, a clinical professor at UCLA Medical Center, has the expertise to provide an exciting medical thriller. This... Full review >
MARCH 6, 2012
Black’s 12th lets readers peek into a corner of Paris that Fodor’s leaves out. Full review >
MAY 1, 2012
War is hell in this novel of inspired absurdity. Full review >
JUNE 5, 2012
Even if the plot and themes are second-hand, this is an emotionally and intellectually astute debut. Full review >
JULY 10, 2012
In weaker hands this would seem a bit contrived, but Cleave knows how to captivate with rich characters and nimble plotting. Full review >
MAY 22, 2012
If artists, as British sculptor Anish Kapoor famously said, make mythologies, then this volume is genuinely a marriage of... Full review >
JUNE 5, 2012
One of those rare thrillers whose revelations actually intensify its suspense instead of dissipating it. The final pages are... Full review >
OCT. 2, 2012
Profoundly imaginative, strikingly original, deeply moving. Full review >
FEB. 5, 2013
Smart, comic, unsettling, yet strangely of a piece—not unlike its disarming lead character. Full review >
AUG. 1, 2012
It’s always a good thing when one wants more instead of less. A promising debut, and a glimpse at a hidden American... Full review >
MAY 8, 2012
Ingenious and mystical, although readers familiar with fantasy and science fiction will find little new or provocative here.... Full review >
OCT. 2, 2012
A fine adult love story—not in the prurient sense, but in the sense of lovers elevated from smittenness to all the grown-up... Full review >
JULY 17, 2012
A sweetheart of a novel, complete with a hazy ending. Full review >
JULY 2, 2012
A good time for fans of the likes of Charlie Huston and Charles Stross. Full review >
SEPT. 4, 2012
Stern weaves an intricate and clever web of stories steeped in both sacred and mundane Jewish culture. Full review >
JULY 31, 2012
Often lyrical, sometimes a bit ponderous: a painful, personal record of Cambodia’s holocaust. Full review >
JULY 31, 2012
Compelling, claustrophobic and slightly creepy in a can’t-put-it-down way. Full review >
JUNE 26, 2012
Despite some well-worn plot expedients and an unduly preachy denouement, a sensitive glimpse into the lives of damaged... Full review >
AUG. 7, 2012
A compulsively readable novel about brothers on opposite sides of life. Full review >
OCT. 2, 2012
Josefson writes vigorously and is well attuned to the upheavals experienced by adolescents. Full review >
OCT. 23, 2012
A sharp-tongued, sweet-natured masterpiece of Jewish family life. Full review >
JAN. 8, 2013
A tantalizing introduction. Full review >
JULY 10, 2012
A promising kickoff to a planned trilogy. For Winters (Bedbugs, 2011, etc.), the beauty is in the details rather than the... Full review >
JULY 10, 2012
Some of the key moments of the book—notably an encounter with a frightened German soldier—are very effective. Full review >
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