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Ivory’s Ghosts
by John Frederick Walker“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory, human kind’s lust for this exquisite treasure, and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process ….
Going, Going, Gone
by Jack Womack…its intriguing characters and urgent, slam-bang pace, it’s Womack’s use of language that makes Going, Going, Gone brilliant reading. . . . It’s a touching subversive act in a brain-dead…
Mountain Language
by Harold Pinter“[Mountain Language] effortlessly encapsulates the world. . . . If to want, to have, to use or abuse power over others is the essence of politics, then Pinter has been…
High Lonesome
by Barry Hannah“Barry Hannah writes the most consistently interesting sentences of any writer in America today. . . . High Lonesome collects thirteen stories, a handful of them of startling unexpectedness, with…
Charlie Wilson’s War
by George Crile“Americans often ask: ‘Where have all the heroes gone?’ Well a lot of them come roaring through in this tour de force of reporting and writing. Tom Clancy’s fiction pales…
The Return of the Caravels
by António Lobo Antunes“A twenty-first-century modernist heir to the narrative collage technique championed by such masters as Ferdinand C”line, William Faulkner, Gabriel Garc”a M”rquez, James Joyce, Vladimir Nabokov, Thomas Pynchon, and Italo Calvino…
The World Beneath
by Cate Kennedy“Written in precise and singing prose, [Kennedy’s] powerful first novel . . . [is] a work of mythic depth, lyrical description, and gripping suspense.” —Adelaide Advertiser…
Wish You Were Here
by Stewart O'Nan“[O’Nan’s] finest and deepest novel to date . . . The action rises and ebbs with the rhythms of daily life—meals, swimming, after-dinner videos, the children’s bedtime. . . ….
Self-Portrait With Woman
by Andrzej Szczypiorski“In Polish novelist Andrzej Szczypiorski’s radiant new work, the affairs of the heart and the world are not so very different. . . . He exhorts those of us who…
This Is Your Life
by John O'Farrell“A splendid satire on our celebrity hungry age. The only problem is that O’Farrell has written such funny dialogue for Jimmy that it is hard to believe that he could…