On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By JOHN D'AGATA and JIM FINGAL
Reviewed by JENNIFER B. McDONALD
The essayist John D'Agata wrestles with a fact checker over questions of truth, beauty and accuracy.
By MATTHEW PEARL
Reviewed by JAMES PARKER
In Matthew Pearl's historical thriller, the future hinges on a secret group of M.I.T. students.
By ROSS RAISIN
Reviewed by RACHEL NOLAN
In this novel, a former shipbuilder is consumed by grief.
By CHRISTOPHER BRAM
Reviewed by JOHN LELAND
Did gay liberation spring from postwar novels and plays?
By ELLEN ULLMAN
Reviewed by PARUL SEHGAL
An eavesdropper finds himself in an unusual triangle in Ellen Ullman's novel.
By JULIANNA BAGGOTT
Reviewed by CLARE CLARK
Julianna Baggott's dystopian novel stratifies survivors of the apocalypse.
By TOM McCARTHY
Reviewed by STEPHEN BURN
Following William Gaddis, Tom McCarthy takes up the challenge of tracing a sequence of interlocking lives.
By JIM YARDLEY
Reviewed by JASON ZENGERLE
An account of basketball in China illuminates a culture in flux.
VISUALS
By STEVEN HELLER
New books about textile design include a catalog of rarely seen materials from Knoll Textiles.
By PAMELA DRUCKERMAN
Reviewed by ELAINE SCIOLINO
An American mother in France admires the way French parents protect their own pleasures.
CRIME
By MARILYN STASIO
Peter Robinson's novel, "Before the Poison," stars a lonesome man who moves into an old house and falls in love with a ghost.
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By AMELIA ATLAS
Joseph Roth, author of "The Radetzky March," was one of the early 20th century's most cantankerous witnesses.
By GREGORY COWLES
Suzanne Collins's "Hunger Games" trilogy is likely to continue dominating the children's best-seller lists after a movie version of the first book arrives in a few weeks.
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
By IHSAN TAYLOR
Paperback books of particular interest.
This week, Jennifer B. McDonald on "The Lifespan of a Fact"; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; John Leland discusses a history of gay American writers; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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