Saturday, March 08, 2014

Book reviews in The New York Times

'Redeployment'

By PHIL KLAY
Reviewed by DEXTER FILKINS
In the stories in "Redeployment," Phil Klay, a former Marine who served in Iraq, shows what the war did to people's souls.




Teju ColeTeju Cole: By the Book

The photographer and author of "Open City" and "Every Day Is for the Thief" says the novel is overrated. "The writers I find most interesting find ways to escape it."
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Maria Hummel

'Motherland'

By MARIA HUMMEL
Reviewed by NICHOLAS KULISH
Maria Hummel's novel about middle-class Germans in the 1940s is inspired by her own family.

Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, who spent years posing as a Rockefeller heir.'Blood Will Out'

By WALTER KIRN
Reviewed by NINA BURLEIGH
Walter Kirn, who was duped by an impostor known as Clark Rockefeller, examines their complicated relationship.

Patrick Leigh Fermor in the 1940s.

'The Broken Road'

By PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR. Edited by COLIN THUBRON and ARTEMIS COOPER.
Reviewed by ROBERT F. WORTH
Patrick Leigh Fermor's European travel trilogy draws to a close.

Yiyun Li'Kinder Than Solitude'

By YIYUN LI
Reviewed by JESS ROW
From 1990s China to present-day America, three friends are haunted by a decades-old mystery in Yiyun Li's latest novel.


Paul de Man with his second wife, Patricia, and their son in Paris in 1955.

'The Double Life of Paul de Man'

By EVELYN BARISH
Reviewed by SUSAN RUBIN SULEIMAN
A study of a literary scholar who was also a World War II collaborator, bigamist and con man.

Clifford Chase'The Tooth Fairy'

By CLIFFORD CHASE
Reviewed by ALYSIA ABBOTT
A memoir in excerpts from letters, conversations and dreams.

Justin Hocking

'The Great Floodgates of the Wonderworld'

By JUSTIN HOCKING
Reviewed by THAD ZIOLKOWSKI
Justin Hocking on riding the waves at Far Rockaway.

Blake, left, and Scott Bailey, 1988.

'The Splendid Things We Planned'

By BLAKE BAILEY
Reviewed by DAVE ITZKOFF
A noted biographer turns his lens on his own dysfunctional family.

'Children of Paradise'

By FRED D’AGUIAR
Reviewed by JULIA SCHEERES
Fred D'Aguiar's novel reimagines the 1978 murder-suicide ritual in Jonestown, Guyana.



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