On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
'The Pale King'
By DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Reviewed by TOM McCARTHY
David Foster Wallace's coherent, if uncompleted, posthumous novel is a grand parable of "late capitalism" set in the innards of the Internal Revenue Service.
Also in the Book Review
'A Thousand Times More Fair'
By KENJI YOSHINO
Reviewed by GARRY WILLS
The findings of a law professor who teaches a course on the Shakespeare's relevance.
'The Pun Also Rises'
By JOHN POLLACK
Reviewed by P. J. O'ROURKE
A champion punster makes a case for his odd diction.
'Otherwise Known as the Human Condition'
By GEOFF DYER
Reviewed by STEPHEN BURN
This collection of writings on what Geoff Dyer calls "the unruly range" of his concerns centers on photography, music and socio-historical subjects.
'The Long Goodbye'
By MEGHAN O'ROURKE
Reviewed by GAIL CALDWELL
In this memoir, the poet Meghan O'Rourke chronicles her mother's death and its desolate aftermath.
'The Origins of Political Order'
By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
Reviewed by MICHAEL LIND
Francis Fukuyama argues that a combination of three political concepts changed the world.
'Sempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag'
Reviewed by LAURA SHAPIRO
Sigrid Nunez recalls sharing an apartment with Susan Sontag while dating her son in the late 1970s.
'Started Early, Took My Dog'
By KATE ATKINSON
Reviewed by ALISON MCCULLOCH
In the fourth novel of an unorthodox mystery series, the ex-P.I. Jackson Brodie searches for a missing woman.
'One Hundred Names for Love'
By DIANE ACKERMAN
Reviewed by ABRAHAM VERGHESE
A writer helps her husband recover the ability to use words through declarations of affection.
'The Use and Abuse of Literature'
By MARJORIE GARBER
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA
As once disparaged genres attain the status of classics, a Harvard professor asks what makes something "literary."
'Lydia'
By TIM SANDLIN
Reviewed by MIKE PEED
Fifteen years after the last installment, Tim Sandlin brings back Lydia Elkrunner and other characters from his series about GroVont, Wyo.
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
Picture Books About the Moon
By STEPHEN KRENSKY and LINDSAY LEE JOHNSON
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
"The Great Moon Hoax" tells the amusing true tale of an elaborate newspaper prank; "Ten Moonstruck Piglets" is a bedtime story about a drove of pigs who sneak outside to frolic by moonlight.
Book Review Features
ESSAY
David Foster Wallace and the Literary Tax Accountant
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
David Foster Wallace's lively correspondence with accountants suggests taxes may not be as boring as you think.
Book Review Features
Up Front: Tom McCarthy
By THE EDITORS
Tom McCarthy was among the corps of early readers who seized on “Infinite Jest,” David Foster Wallace’s postmodern masterpiece.
TBR
Inside the List
By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER
“Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention” hits No. 3 on the hardcover nonfiction list this week, trailing admiring reviews and eulogies for Manning Marable, its author, who died a few days before the book’s publication.
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