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Books Update

August 31, 2012
Books Update

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'Mortality'
By CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY

This slender volume collects the essays written by Christopher Hitchens after he was stricken with esophageal cancer.

'Diaries'
By GEORGE ORWELL
Reviewed by BARRY GEWEN

George Orwell's diaries covered everything from his strong feelings about World War II to his careful counting of eggs laid by Moroccan hens.
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As a child, the author of the new story collection "This Is How You Lose Her" loved the unabashedly smart Encyclopedia Brown. "Smart was not cool where I grew up."

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'When We Argued All Night'
By ALICE MATTISON
Reviewed by MARIA RUSSO

Alice Mattison's novel follows the friendship of two men through the greater part of a century.

'The Garden of Evening Mists'
By TAN TWAN ENG
Reviewed by DOMINIQUE BROWNING

A war-scarred heroine finds solace in Japanese artistic traditions.

'Dublinesque'
By ENRIQUE VILA-MATAS. Translated by ANNE McLEAN and ROSALIND HARVEY.
Reviewed by RACHEL NOLAN

Enrique Vila-Matas's publisher-hero is on a mission.

'Summer Lies'
By BERNHARD SCHLINK. Translated by CAROL BROWN JANEWAY.
Reviewed by LISA ZEIDNER

In Bernhard Schlink's stories, diffident men grapple with the small delusions and half-truths of the everyday.

'Double Cross'
By BEN MACINTYRE
Reviewed by ALEXANDER ROSE

Ben Macintyre tells the story of five extraordinary spies at the center of a ruse to fool the Germans about D-Day.

Q. & A.: Ben Macintyre Talks About 'Double Cross'

'Crusoe'
By KATHERINE FRANK
Reviewed by RANDY BOYAGODA

Was the forgotten British seafarer Robert Knox the inspiration for "Robinson Crusoe"?

'The Age of Desire'
By JENNIE FIELDS
Reviewed by JUDITH MARTIN

Jennie Fields reimagines Edith Wharton's Gilded Age world, and the love affair that threatened her closest friendship.

'A Foreign Country'
By CHARLES CUMMING
Reviewed by JOHN SCHWARTZ

Charles Cumming's spy thriller links the past and the present.

'In the Kingdom of Men'
By KIM BARNES
Reviewed by JULIET LAPIDOS

A young American woman's experience in 1960s Saudi Arabia.

CRIME
Bad Neighborhood
By MARILYN STASIO

In Ruth Rendell's novel "The St. Zita Society," characters are undone by their own obsessions.
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This week, Christopher Buckley talks about Christopher Hitchens's "Mortality"; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Barry Gewen discusses George Orwell's diaries; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host.