By YIYUN LI Reviewed by PICO IYER
Centered on the aftermath of a young woman’s execution in a desolate part of China in 1979, Yiyun Li’s grieving and unremitting first novel examines the costs and consequences of a society gone mad.
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'China Witness: Voices From a Silent Generation'
By XINRAN Reviewed by JOSHUA HAMMER
A Chinese journalist coaxes reminiscences out of Cultural Revolution survivors.
'Brothers'
By YU HUA Reviewed by JESS ROW
A popular Chinese epic about growing up during the Cultural Revolution and chasing love and fortune in the new market economy.
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Sunday Magazine: A Profile of Yu Hua
'Postcards From Tomorrow Square'
By JAMES FALLOWS Reviewed by JONATHAN SPENCE
A lively collection of a dozen illuminating reports on China from the Atlantic Monthly’s James Fallows.
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'A Jury of Her Peers'
By ELAINE SHOWALTER Reviewed by KATIE ROIPHE
Elaine Showalter examines the lives and works of 250 female writers.
'The Kindly Ones'
By JONATHAN LITTELL Reviewed by DAVID GATES
In this controversial novel, a philosophical Nazi details his participation in the atrocities of his day.
'The Believers'
By ZOË HELLER Reviewed by JILL ABRAMSON
Zoë Heller’s novel traces the traumas of a radically chic family in post-9/11 Greenwich Village as the life of its dynamic paterfamilias ebbs away.
A Profile of Zoë Heller
'More Than Just Race'
By WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON Reviewed by RICHARD THOMPSON FORD
The Harvard sociologist William Julius Wilson probes the hopelessness of black urban America.
'Passing Strange'
By MARTHA A. SANDWEISS Reviewed by BAZ DREISINGER
How Clarence King, a 19th-century white geologist and explorer, passed for 13 years as James Todd, a black Pullman porter.
First Chapter
'Flying'
By ERIC KRAFT Reviewed by LAURA MILLER
Three picaresque novellas from Eric Kraft, full of riffs on nostalgia, truth and imagination.
'Ablutions: Notes for a Novel'
By PATRICK deWITT Reviewed by REBECCA BARRY
Patrick deWitt’s protagonist, a barman, becomes a victim of his own trade and hurtles toward the rock bottom of his ugly world.
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'Ghosts'
By CÉSAR AIRA Reviewed by NATASHA WIMMER
In this novel, a high-end condominium development in Buenos Aires is the scene of paranormal events.
'Uranium: War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World'
By TOM ZOELLNER Reviewed by DRAKE BENNETT
A history and travel narrative about the mineral that rose from trash to weapon of mass destruction.
'Pictures at an Exhibition'
By SARA HOUGHTELING Reviewed by MALENA WATROUS
A coming-of-age novel about a Paris gallery owner’s son and his efforts to recover works looted by the Nazis.
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Books News
Barnes & Noble Buys an E-Book Retailer
By MOTOKO RICH
With overall book sales flat or falling and electronic book purchases up, the bookstore chain has acquired Fictionwise.
HarperCollins Puts Its Money on New ‘It Books’ Imprint
By MOTOKO RICH
Just a month after it shuttered an entire division, the publisher is opening a new brand focused on pop culture and content derived from the Web.
Ivory Tower Unswayed by Crashing Economy
By PATRICIA COHEN
Free market theory, mathematical models and hostility to government regulation still reign in most university economics departments.
A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind
By NOAM COHEN
Google is spending $7 million on a global print campaign to alert writers that it intends to digitize every book.
Publisher’s Big Gamble on Divisive French Novel
By MOTOKO RICH
Harper paid about $1 million for Jonathan Littell’s “Kindly Ones,” a 983-page French novel narrated by a remorseless former Nazi SS officer, a book that has already aroused fierce passions, for and against.
Bigger Woes for Library, as a Buyer Backs Out
By ROBIN POGREBIN
A decision by Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. to back out of its plans to buy the former Donnell Library building in Midtown Manhattan is likely to deprive the New York Public Library of millions it was counting on.
Weekly Books Headlines and Reviews
Barnes & Noble Buys an E-Book Retailer
By MOTOKO RICH
With overall book sales flat or falling and electronic book purchases up, the bookstore chain has acquired Fictionwise.
HarperCollins Puts Its Money on New ‘It Books’ Imprint
By MOTOKO RICH
Just a month after it shuttered an entire division, the publisher is opening a new brand focused on pop culture and content derived from the Web.
Ivory Tower Unswayed by Crashing Economy
By PATRICIA COHEN
Free market theory, mathematical models and hostility to government regulation still reign in most university economics departments.
A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind
By NOAM COHEN
Google is spending $7 million on a global print campaign to alert writers that it intends to digitize every book.
Publisher’s Big Gamble on Divisive French Novel
By MOTOKO RICH
Harper paid about $1 million for Jonathan Littell’s “Kindly Ones,” a 983-page French novel narrated by a remorseless former Nazi SS officer, a book that has already aroused fierce passions, for and against.
Bigger Woes for Library, as a Buyer Backs Out
By ROBIN POGREBIN
A decision by Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. to back out of its plans to buy the former Donnell Library building in Midtown Manhattan is likely to deprive the New York Public Library of millions it was counting on.
Weekly Books Headlines and Reviews
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