In the Literary News

Stranger Than Paradise
Witty, obsessed and almost inhumanly brave, Flannery O’Connor was peculiar, her work even more so. But Brad Gooch’s biography strives to make it all quite normal — under the circumstances, of course. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Williams-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Williams-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Suicide Squad
A history of the morbid, musical, quarrelsome, brilliant Wittgensteins. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Holt-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Holt-t.html" border="0"/></a>

What the Wind Blew In
Molly Haskell’s feminist perspective comes to the rescue of “Gone With the Wind,” a film most academics won’t touch and current critics dismiss. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/White-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/White-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Postcards From the Edge
The first English version of this 1947 novel, based on a real-life German couple who mounted modest but suicidal resistance against Hitler. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Schillinger-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Schillinger-t.html" border="0"/></a>

On the Road to El Dorado
A journalist follows the trail of Percy Fawcett’s 1925 fatal quest for a fabled city of gold in the Amazon jungle. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Cohen-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Cohen-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Comics: The First Action Heroes
An anthology of the earliest superhero stories; a “serious parody” of old superhero comics by Jonathan Lethem; and the final volume of Grant Morrison’s “All-Star Superman.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Wolk-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Wolk-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Womanchild in the Oppressive Land
Marlon James’s green-eyed protagonist believes she is better than the other slaves on a Jamaican plantation. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Glover-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Glover-t.html" border="0"/></a>

You Must Not Remember This
This novel’s unlikely hero is a Japanese mathematician whose memory lasts for only 80 minutes. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Overbye-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Overbye-t.html" border="0"/></a>

The Persistence of Guilt
In this novel, Holocaust survivors grapple with grim legacies. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Peed-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Peed-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Exile’s Return
In this memoir, an American journalist’s fascination with an elusive Iranian mirrors her fraught relation to her parents’ homeland. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Bahadur-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Bahadur-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Comedy of Blunders
An acclaimed novel from Denmark about a dysfunctional family. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Clark-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Clark-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Off His Meds, on the Uptown B
In this gripping novel, a disturbed boy with a subway fixation thinks he has 10 hours to save the world. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Bock-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Bock-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Chronicles
A miscellany of reminiscence and short fiction from António Lobo Antunes. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Skloot-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Skloot-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Essay: Read a Book, Get Out of Jail
What happens when convicted felons are sentenced to a book club instead of prison? <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Price-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Price-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Up Front: Joy Williams
Many years ago, Joy Williams wrote to Flannery O’Connor’s mother asking if she could have a picture of her daughter. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Upfront-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Upfront-t.html" border="0"/></a>

TBR: Inside the List
“The Women,” T. C. Boyle’s novel about the amorous adventures of Frank Lloyd Wright, enters the hardcover fiction list this week at No. 12. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/InsideList-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/InsideList-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Browsing Books: Editors’ Choice
Recently reviewed books of particular interest. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/EdChoice-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/EdChoice-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Browsing Books: Paperback Row
Paperback books of particular interest. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/PaperRow-t.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/PaperRow-t.html" border="0"/></a>

Letters: Ripley Under Cover
“I enjoyed James Campbell’s essay on Tom Ripley and Patricia Highsmith (‘Happy Birthday, Mr. Ripley,’ Feb. 8) and the discussion of the various screen Ripleys.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Letters-t-RIPLEYUNDERC_LETTERS.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Letters-t-RIPLEYUNDERC_LETTERS.html" border="0"/></a>

Letters: ‘Securing the City’
Letters about a review of Christopher Dickey’s “Securing the City.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Letters-t-SECURINGTHEC_LETTERS.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Letters-t-SECURINGTHEC_LETTERS.html" border="0"/></a>

Letters: Brandy Shifter
“The solution given by John Allen Paulos to Charles Dodgson’s ... puzzle about mixing water and brandy ... may be mathematically correct, but it is wrong in practice.” <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Letters-t-BRANDYSHIFTE_LETTERS.html"><img src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?x=6edf0c0e89094ef2a3b62c259a754194&u=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/01/books/review/Letters-t-BRANDYSHIFTE_LETTERS.html" border="0"/></a>

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