On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By MAGGIE NELSON
Reviewed by LAURA KIPNIS
Maggie Nelson's meditation on violence in our culture aims its criticisms at the fine arts, literature, theater and even poetry.
Also in the Book Review
By RICHARD WHITE
Reviewed by MICHAEL KAZIN
The historian Richard White sees the 19th-century American railways as a Gilded Age extravagance that worked social, political and environmental havoc.
By EARL SWIFT
Reviewed by TOM VANDERBILT
Earl Swift's account of the creation of the U.S. expressway system is textured and nuanced, easy on the asphalt, long on personalities.
By ESMERALDA SANTIAGO
Reviewed by GAIUTRA BAHADUR
Esmeralda Santiago's heroine, a feminist before her time, runs a sugar plantation in 19th-century Puerto Rico.
By GLEN DUNCAN
Reviewed by JUSTIN CRONIN
A novel narrated by a werewolf, morally as well as physically ambiguous, who is tortured by the spirits of his victims and ready to surrender to his pursuers.
By ALICE LaPLANTE
Reviewed by ZOE SLUTZKY
This haunting first novel's deeply unreliable narrator is a former surgeon with Alzheimer's, the prime suspect in her best friend's murder.
By TIM FLANNERY
Reviewed by ANDREW C. REVKIN
While detailing the great harm done by humans, Tim Flannery also writes hopefully about the earth's future.
By JAMES B. STEWART
Reviewed by JEFFREY ROSEN
James B. Stewart warns of the risks of a perjury epidemic that has "infected nearly every aspect of society."
By MARGARET DRABBLE
Reviewed by NANCY KLINE
Margaret Drabble's short-story collection reflects the last half of the 20th century.
Children's Books
By CLAIRE A. NIVOLA
Reviewed by TOMIE dePAOLA
This picture book documents an American girl's adventures in her father's native Sardinia.
By MELISSA WALKER
Reviewed by CARLENE BAUER
In Melissa Walker's young adult novel, a girl coming of age in an evangelical community begins to test boundaries and question absolute faith.
Reviewed by VERONICA CHAMBERS
A novel of girls at an elite Swiss boarding school in the 1970s, and another of two Mexican-American fifth-graders struggling with assimilation.
By PAMELA PAUL
Picture books about baseball, Ben Franklin, Lewis and Clark and more.
By GENE LUEN YANG
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL
A graphic novel about video games, growing up Asian-American and the challenges of meeting parental expectations.
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ESSAY
By DANI SHAPIRO
Can a memoirist write with total honesty if she is worried about what her son might think?
By JEFF GORDINIER
Poetry by Michael Dickman, Ross Gay, C. Dale Young and Chris Martin.
Featuring conversations with the novelists John Banville, a k a Benjamin Black, and Esmeralda Santiago.
REVIEWS BY THE TIMES'S CRITICS
Books News & Features
By CHARLES McGRATH
Donald Ray Pollock has followed his 2008 short-story collection, "Knockemstiff," with a novel, also set in the Ohio town of that redolent name.
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