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“American Taliban” by Pearl Abraham
"American Taliban" By Pearl Abraham Random House, 255 pages, $25 Even now, a popular edition of "The Arabian Nights" in English is the translation by nineteenth-century British explorer Sir Richard...
“War” by Sebastian Junger
"War" By Sebastian Junger Twelve, 287 pages, 26.99 In a disastrous encounter on a remote mountain called the Abas Ghar in eastern Afghanistan in 2005, a team of Navy SEALS...
“The Invisible Bridge” by Julie Orringer
"The Invisible Bridge" By Julie Orringer Knopf. 624 pp. $26.95 When a novel begins with Jewish characters in late 1930s Europe, there is an excellent chance that one road —...
“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life” by Thomas Geoghegan
"Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life" By Thomas Geoghegan The New Press, $25.95, 336 pages When Chicago author and...
“Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life” by Thomas Geoghegan
"Were You Born on the Wrong Continent? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life" By Thomas Geoghegan The New Press, $25.95, 336 pages When Chicago author and...
“The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet” by David Mitchell
"The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" By David Mitchell Random House. 479 pp. $26 The British writer David Mitchell's new novel "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" opens...
“Devil’s Dream” by Madison Smartt Bell
"Devil's Dream" By Madison Smartt Bell Pantheon. 335 pages. $26.95 Fiddlers strike up the old tune "Devil's Dream" more than once in the new Madison Smartt Bell novel that bears...
“Generation A” by Douglas Coupland
"Generation A" By Douglas Coupland Scribner, $24 Early in Douglas Coupland's new novel "Generation A," a young Frenchman named Julien rants that he is "angry at the fabric of time,...
“Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War” by Ted Morgan
"Valley of Death: The Tragedy at Dien Bien Phu That Led America into the Vietnam War" Random House, 698 pages, $35 It is a curiosity of history that the French...
“Eight White Nights” by Andre Aciman
"Eight White Nights" By Andre Aciman Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26, 360 pages The unnamed narrator of Andre Aciman's new novel "Eight White Nights" puts his finger on the problem...