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Books Update
On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review
'We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves'
By KAREN JOY FOWLER
Reviewed by BARBARA KINGSOLVER
The narrator of Karen Joy Fowler's latest novel spent part of her childhood in a long household experiment with an adopted chimpanzee for a twin sister.
Also in the Book Review
Khaled Hosseini: By the Book
The author of "And the Mountains Echoed" keeps a handy copy of "I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski: Life, 'The Big Lebowski,' and What Have You" on his bookshelf.
By the Book: Archive
'The Last Man in Russia'
By OLIVER BULLOUGH
Reviewed by ELLEN BARRY
Oliver Bullough suggests one man's life reveals much about the country's demographic ills.
'Submergence'
By J. M. LEDGARD
Reviewed by FLOYD SKLOOT
J. M. Ledgard's novel of love, espionage and scientific discovery.
'We Need New Names'
By NOVIOLET BULAWAYO
Reviewed by UZODINMA IWEALA
A Zimbabwean moves to Detroit in NoViolet Bulawayo's novel.
'Americanah'
By CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE
Reviewed by MIKE PEED
Being black, in America and Africa, draws a novelist's scrutiny.
ArtsBeat Q. & A.: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena'
By ANTHONY MARRA
Reviewed by MADISON SMARTT BELL
Anthony Marra's first novel is set during a decade of war in Chechnya.
'Fairyland: A Memoir of My Father'
By ALYSIA ABBOTT
Reviewed by ALEXANDRA STYRON
Alysia Abbott searches for the truth about her father's life.
'She Left Me the Gun'
By EMMA BROCKES
Reviewed by ANNA ALTMAN
Emma Brockes searches for the truth about her mother's life.
'The Unwinding: An Inner History of the New America'
By GEORGE PACKER
Reviewed by DAVID BROOKS
Stories of our hard times, with a nod to John Dos Passos.
Revolution Redux
By JOYCE E. CHAPLIN
In two retellings, the War for Independence has a modern veneer.
'The Yonahlossee Riding Camp For Girls'
By ANTON DISCLAFANI
Reviewed by ALEX KUCZYNSKI
Equestrian boarding school, romance and Southern snobbery in the 1930s.
The Fortress of Solicitude
By AMANDA FORTINI
Some mothers with means are re-embracing hearth and home, complete with a D.I.Y. twist.
'One and Only'
By LAUREN SANDLER
Reviewed by LORI GOTTLIEB
Dispelling the myths about only children and their mothers.
'The Slippage'
By BEN GREENMAN
Reviewed by S. KIRK WALSH
Ben Greenman's novel examines barren lives in the suburbs.
'Paranoia'
By VICTOR MARTINOVICH. Translated by DIANE NEMEC IGNASHEV.
Reviewed by ARKADY OSTROVSKY
In this novel's police state, following your heart can be perilous.
'The Science Delusion'
By CURTIS WHITE
Reviewed by ERIC BANKS
The novelist and social critic Curtis White takes aim at the triumphalism of a technology- and science-obsessed world.
'Brilliant Blunders'
By MARIO LIVIO
Reviewed by CARL ZIMMER
Science can be so messy that even great scientists make fantastic mistakes, an astrophysicist writes.
Fiction Chronicle
By TOM LeCLAIR
New books by Giorgio Vasta, Christina Schwarz, Isabel Allende, Christina Baker Kline and Muriel Rukeyser.
'Mortal Sins'
By MICHAEL D’ANTONIO
Reviewed by JANET REITMAN
Michael D'Antonio recounts the priest abuse scandal, with lawyers and advocates for victims battling a church in denial.
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OPEN BOOK
Expo Takes Manhattan
By JOHN WILLIAMS
The publishing industry recently gathered in Manhattan, partly to promote the fall season's big books.
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Dark Places
By ELAINE SHOWALTER
The stories of Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight could join a distinguished tradition of captivity narratives.
Inside the List
By GREGORY COWLES
Dean Koontz's "Deeply Odd," at No. 3 on the hardcover fiction list, features the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock and an aesthetic argument about the nature of good and evil.
Paperback Row
By IHSAN TAYLOR
Paperback books of particular interest.
Editors' Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest.
Book Review Podcast
This week, Anthony Marra discusses his novel, "A Constellation of Vital Phenomena"; Lauren Sandler talks about "One and Only: The Freedom of Having an Only Child, and the Joy of Being One"; and Gregory Cowles has best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.
Kevin Barry Wins Impac Dublin Literary Award
One New York Poet Honors the New York Poems of Another
'Bridges of Madison County' Musical Will Open on Broadway
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