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“The Routes of Man” by Ted Conover
"The Routes of Man" By Ted Conover Knopf, 336 pages, $26.95 It was a bad night for sleep: En route to Uganda from Kenya and staying at the apartment of...
Review: ‘Summertime’ by J.M. Coetzee
"Summertime" By J.M. CoetzeeViking, 266 pages, $25.95 We have, in the South African novelist J.M. Coetzee's latest novel "Summertime," the public spectacle of a writer whipping his fictional self. John...
“The Art Student’s War” by Brad Leithauser
"The Art Student's War" By Brad Leithauser Knopf, 512 pages, $27.95 To engage in some literary hopscotch momentarily, consider that the poet and novelist Brad Leithauser, writing in Slate magazine...
SHADOWY CONNECTIONS
Fellow Travelers By Thomas Mallon Pantheon, 356 pages, $25 In "Many Are the Crimes," historian Ellen Schrecker's examination of McCarthyism in America, she sketches the growth of post-World War II...
How Bush’s team has kept the facts from getting in the way
The Greatest Story Ever Sold: The Decline and Fall of Truth From 9/11 to Katrina By Frank Rich Penguin, 341 pages, $25.95 Since 2004, a small crop of books has...
WINNERS OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZES
By Art Winslow The first question a critic faces in encountering a book is one that occurs to any reader: Is this worth my time? Will it inform me, move...