"A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight."
—Robertson Davies (b. 1913) Canadian novelist
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- Freedom Trains Sun, 05 Sep 2010 23:52:05 GMT
- Isabel Wilkerson’s masterly account of the Great Migration tells the story of the six million African-Americans who moved away from the South between 1915 and 1970.
 
- Simian Says Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:45:10 GMT
- Sara Gruen’s busy novel, which concerns six bonobos and the people who conduct language studies with them, addresses a vast sweep of animal-human issues.
- Bringing It All Back Home Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:17 GMT
- The historian Sean Wilentz situates Bob Dylan in a long continuum of American music, literature, religion and politics.
- Stormy Weather Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:31 GMT
- This novel’s protagonist is a World War II meteorologist.
- Worlds in Collision Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
- A Brahmin astrophysicist and his Dalit assistant are the interdependent poles of Manu Joseph’s novel.
- No. 1 Sleuth Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
- A history of the beloved matinee detective Charlie Chan.
- Hannibal Rising Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:28 GMT
- A history of the Battle of Cannae in 216 B.C., where Hannibal obliterated the Roman army.
- Lost Tribe Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:30 GMT
- A New Yorker travels to Israel to make amends with her settler sister in this novel about American Jews in the Holy Land.
- Living in Your Head Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:01:39 GMT
- Charles Yu wraps his lonely story of a time machine repairman in glittering layers of gorgeous meta-science-fiction.
- Science Fiction Chronicle Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
- Science fiction by Karen Lord, Ian McDonald, Karin Lowachee and Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud.
- Words Cannot Express Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
- Guy Deutscher’s argument about the basis of language is informed by the way we perceive and name colors.
- Ghost, Come Back Again Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
- Paul Murray’s smart comic novel, set in a Dublin boys’ school, is an elegy to lost youth.
- Endless War Sat, 04 Sep 2010 04:00:54 GMT
- Andrew J. Bacevich forcefully denounces 60 years of American militarism in this bracing and intelligent polemic.
- Unhappy Days Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
- The historian Laura Kalman looks at the Ford and Carter years.
- Immortal Beloved Sat, 04 Sep 2010 05:00:07 GMT
- A man loses his wife to death but finds her somewhere else in this debut novel.
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