On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By AMBER DERMONT
Reviewed by ELEANOR HENDERSON
In Amber Dermont's debut novel, a talented young sailor at a New England boarding school tries to cope with the death of a friend.
Also in the Book Review
By ROBERT HARRIS
Reviewed by JOHN SCHWARTZ
A computer program that tracks human emotions proves less than stable in Robert Harris's thriller.
By THOMAS MALLON
Reviewed by CURTIS SITTENFELD
Thomas Mallon's novel reimagines the decline of the Nixon administration.
By GEOFF DYER
Reviewed by J. HOBERMAN
Geoff Dyer examines "Stalker," Andrei Tarkovsky's Soviet-era cinematic masterpiece.
By FRANCIS SPUFFORD
Reviewed by ANDREW MEIER
Francis Spufford's genre-bending look at Soviet Russia's planned economy is part old-style Russian fairy tale and part deeply researched history.
By CRAIG TAYLOR
Reviewed by SARAH LYALL
Craig Taylor embarked on a five-year mission to define London through the voices of its residents.
By DAVID BROCK, ARI RABIN-HAVT and THE STAFF OF MEDIA MATTERS FOR AMERICA
Reviewed by JACOB HEILBRUNN
David Brock and his associates take on Fox News.
Reviewed by GARRET KEIZER
Two books explore how multigenerational and one-person households are on the rise.
By GREGOR VON REZZORI
Reviewed by JOHN WRAY
Gregor von Rezzori's hero clings to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
By ELIZA FACTOR
Reviewed by FLOYD SKLOOT
Eliza Factor's novel concerns a flawed utopian community dependent on a ferociously toxic substance.
By KWASI KWARTENG
Reviewed by ISAAC CHOTINER
An M.P. argues that British colonialists made poor choices that continue to reverberate.
By NATALIE DYKSTRA
Reviewed by BRENDA WINEAPPLE
Henry Adams's autobiography did not mention his wife, Clover; here she takes center stage.
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By ROBERT K. MASSIE
When the end comes, how does a biographer feel? Exhausted? Relieved? Euphoric? Or wistful, sad, bereaved?
TBR
By GREGORY COWLES
After reinventing one pop-Gothic standby - the vampire - the novelist Anne Rice has moved on to the werewolf with "The Wolf Gift," which is No. 5 on the hardcover fiction list.
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