On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
By IAN BURUMA
The novels "Sandalwood Death" and "Pow!," by Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan, combine literary imagination with a peasant spirit.
Also in the Book Review
The author of "Insane City" spent his childhood reading "Richie Rich," "Archie" and "Batman" comics: "pretty much anything unlikely to inspire intellectual development."
By MICHAEL DEAN
Reviewed by ANDREA WULF
Michael Dean's novel imagines the bawdy, philanthropic life of the painter William Hogarth.
By GEORGE SAUNDERS
Reviewed by GREGORY COWLES
George Saunders's stories offer a close look at life's dark aspects, but don't succumb to them.
By ALI SMITH
Reviewed by LEAH HAGER COHEN
Ali Smith weaves fact and fiction in these interconnected essays, whose narrator is haunted - literally - by a former lover.
By CHRISTOPH IRMSCHER
Reviewed by REBECCA STOTT
Christoph Irmscher studies the contributions and contradictions of the pioneering scientist Louis Agassiz.
By ROSEANNE MONTILLO
Reviewed by DEBORAH BLUM
Grave robbers, ghoulish experiments and the Romantic age: Roseanne Montillo traces the origins of Mary Shelley's masterpiece.
By JENNY UGLOW
Reviewed by MEGAN MARSHALL
An idiosyncratic English church is the starting point for Jenny Uglow's biography of the Victorian architect and heiress Sarah Losh.
By CHARLES R. MORRIS
Reviewed by MICHAEL LIND
A fresh look at the story of America's industrial development.
By KEITH O’BRIEN
Reviewed by WAYNE COFFEY
A once-beloved Kentucky high school team fights to regain glory.
By BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY
Reviewed by VICTORIA REDEL
In her poetry, Brenda Shaughnessy imagines a world without a child's pain.
By JOAN WICKERSHAM
Reviewed by TOM BARBASH
Joan Wickersham explores relationships in her collection.
By SOPHIA AL-MARIA
Reviewed by DALIA SOFER
Describing a life caught between Seattle and Qatar.
By CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD. Edited by KATHERINE BUCKNELL.
Reviewed by DANIEL SWIFT
The final volume of Christopher Isherwood's diaries.
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