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Books Update

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Books Update NYT

On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review

'TransAtlantic'
By COLUM McCANN
Reviewed by ERICA WAGNER

Colum McCann's wide-ranging new novel, "TransAtlantic," tells the stories of men and women who chose to leap across the ocean from Ireland to the New World or back again.

Also in the Book Review

Dan Brown: By the Book

The author of "The Da Vinci Code" and, most recently, "Inferno" made "the mistake" of reading "The Exorcist" at age 15: "It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened."

By the Book: Archive

'Joyland'
By STEPHEN KING
Reviewed by WALTER KIRN

Stephen King's lovelorn narrator takes a summer job at a haunted Southern amusement park.

'The Fall of Arthur'
By J. R. R. TOLKIEN. Edited by CHRISTOPHER TOLKIEN.
Reviewed by ANDREW O'HEHIR

An unfinished poem by J. R. R. Tolkien explores the tale of King Arthur.

'Bad Boy'
By ERIC FISCHL and MICHAEL STONE
Reviewed by LAURA KIPNIS

Alongside painters like Julian Schnabel and David Salle, Eric Fischl came of age in the frenzied New York art world of the 1980s.

'A Fort of Nine Towers'
By QAIS AKBAR OMAR
Reviewed by MYTHILI G. RAO

In this memoir, an Afghan family's attempts to escape the horrors of war show them new ways of seeing their world.

'On Sal Mal Lane'
By RU FREEMAN
Reviewed by CRISTINA GARCÍA

A looming civil war threatens to engulf the multiethnic Sri Lankan street of Ru Freeman's novel.

'Questions of Travel'
By MICHELLE de KRETSER
Reviewed by RANDY BOYAGODA

In Michelle de Kretser's novel, a Sri Lankan and an Australian seem destined to connect.

'Debtors' Prison: The Politics of Austerity Versus Possibility'
By ROBERT KUTTNER
Reviewed by ROGER LOWENSTEIN

Robert Kuttner champions the cause of indebted students, families and states.

'Conscience and Its Enemies'
By ROBERT P. GEORGE
Reviewed by KAY S. HYMOWITZ

Robert P. George argues against liberal secularism.

'How to Create the Perfect Wife'
By WENDY MOORE
Reviewed by MIRANDA SEYMOUR

An 18th-century Englishman tried to train a submissive spouse.

'Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century'
By CHRISTIAN CARYL
Reviewed by ISAAC CHOTINER

From Chinese economic reform to the Iranian revolution, Christian Caryl sees 1979 as a crucial doorway into the present era.

'My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love'
By KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD. Translated by DON BARTLETT.
Reviewed by LELAND de la DURANTAYE

The second installment of Karl Ove Knausgaard's six-volume autobiographical novel.

Illiberal Arts
By ANDREW DELBANCO

What's the point of college? Two books consider the question from different perspectives.

'The Anatomy of Violence: The Biological Roots of Crime'
By ADRIAN RAINE
Reviewed by PAUL BLOOM

A criminologist examines the biological roots of violence, and argues that "the seeds of sin are brain-based."

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By JOHN WILLIAMS

The drummer Questlove on the reading material that shaped his childhood.

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Pride and Perseverance
By LAURA SHAPIRO

In her centenary year, Barbara Pym's "spry little domestic novels" command a loyal readership.

Show Some Spine
By CHLOË SCHAMA

Why is the faceless woman so ubiquitous on book covers?

Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES

For the title character of his new novel, "Bad Monkey," which is No. 3 on the hardcover fiction list, Carl Hiaasen wanted "sort of a Lindsay Lohan of monkeys."

Paperback Row
By IHSAN TAYLOR

Paperback books of particular interest.

Editors' Choice

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Inside The New York Times Book Review Podcast

This week, Andrew Delbanco discusses two new books about the state of higher education; Julie Bosman has notes from the field; Andrew O'Hehir talks about "The Fall of Arthur," by J. R. R. Tolkien; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.