On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By JOHN LANCHESTER
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER
John Lanchester's novel follows the residents of one London street during an era of easy money.
By HARRIET LANE
Reviewed by JONATHAN DEE
In this first novel, a woman insinuates herself into a literary family's life after witnessing a death in a car accident
Also in the Book Review
By REBECCA STOTT
Reviewed by HUGH RAFFLES
A look at the thinkers whose evolutionary ideas preceded Darwin's.
By DAVID E. SANGER
Reviewed by ROBERT W. MERRY
David E. Sanger assesses the president's efforts to deal with a world in flux.
By SAM HARRIS
Reviewed by DANIEL MENAKER
Sam Harris explains the illogic of our belief in free will.
By A. N. WILSON
Reviewed by JAMES SHAPIRO
A. N. Wilson turns his attention to the creative Elizabethan age.
By SARAH MCPHEE
Reviewed by MAXWELL CARTER
The passionate life of Costanza Piccolomini provides a revealing view of Rome in the era of the Baroque.
By CHRIS CLEAVE
Reviewed by BRUCE BARCOTT
Two women, friends and rivals, face their greatest challenge: the 2012 Olympics.
By ANNE-MARIE KINNEY
Reviewed by DEB OLIN UNFERTH
Anne-Marie Kinney puts an eerie twist on the time-honored battle against workplace monotony.
By STEPHANIE REENTS
Reviewed by HALEY TANNER
In Stephanie Reents's connected stories, young women navigate an early adulthood cluttered with discarded relationships.
Children's Books
By PAUL O. ZELINSKY
Three books highlight the charms of the uncuddly set.
By JENNIFER HUBERT SWAN
The young people in two Y.A. novels find a retail refuge - or a trap.
By PAMELA PAUL
New picture books starring pigs, including one named Boomer who's training for the Animal Olympics.
By CHRIS COLFER. Illustrated by BRANDON DORMAN.
Reviewed by TROY PATTERSON
Chris Colfer whisks his young heroes to a fairy-tale realm.
By BETH KEPHART
Reviewed by JEN DOLL
A pregnant American teenager faces the unknown in Spain.
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If the author of "A Hologram for the King" could meet any writer, it would be George Orwell. Of those authors he's already met, Christopher Hitchens most impressed him.
Back Page
By DOUGLAS BRINKLEY and JOHNNY DEPP
Woody Guthrie wrote a Dust Bowl novel extolling the virtues of adobe homes.
By GREGORY COWLES
Karin Slaughter, whose new novel enters the hardcover list at No. 4 this week, comes by her thriller-ready name honestly: it's the one she was born with.
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
By IHSAN TAYLOR
Paperback books of particular interest.
This week, David Sanger discusses Barack Obama's foreign policy; James Shapiro talks about A. N. Wilson's book "The Elizabethans"; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.
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