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.
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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By MARIA HUMMEL
Reviewed by NICHOLAS KULISH
Maria
Hummel's novel about middle-class Germans in the 1940s is inspired by her own
family.
By WALTER KIRN
Reviewed by NINA BURLEIGH
Walter
Kirn, who was duped by an impostor known as Clark Rockefeller, examines their
complicated relationship.
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.
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.
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.
By CLIFFORD CHASE
Reviewed by ALYSIA ABBOTT
A
memoir in excerpts from letters, conversations and dreams.
By JUSTIN HOCKING
Reviewed by THAD ZIOLKOWSKI
Justin
Hocking on riding the waves at Far Rockaway.
By BLAKE BAILEY
Reviewed by DAVE ITZKOFF
A
noted biographer turns his lens on his own dysfunctional family.
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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