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Collected Poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

C.K. Williams' Collected Poems covers a lifetime's

Sacred Games (Harper Collins)

Gangsters, detectives, Bollywood movie stars--Chandra mobilizes the machinery of a thriller in order to reveal Bombay at its most various. Fascinating then, to hear him describe his novel as a mandala of perceptions in which characters reflect the worlds they move through, the plot enacting the clash between different beliefs about reality.

The Castle in the Forest (Random House)

In the second of this two-part conversation about the bureaucratic, dim-witted culture that characterized the German provinces of Hitler's childhood, Mailer reveals that his narrator, an assistant to the devil, is himself a bureaucrat. Bureaucracy becomes the model for the world of this novel, down to the smallest detail—the beehives kept by Hitler's father. Mailer waxes hilarious about the sexual behavior of bees.

The Castle in the Forest (Random House)

Now in his eighties, Norman Mailer has forsaken the violence and declarative sentences of his signature style for the gradual somber analytics of a style like that of Thomas Mann. In this first of a two-part interview, we discuss this unexpected change and his new novel's subject: the childhood of Adolf Hitler. 

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties (Ecco)

Robert Stone has written novels that are said to be the best descriptions of the American 1960's. In this memoir, he travels back to revisit those troubled times...

Zoli (Random House)
The Romani poet, Zoli, is the latest heroine in Colum McCann's ongoing quest to understand the function of art.

House of Meetings (Knopf)

Martin Amis has written a Russian novel--not just a Russian novel but a novel about the Gulags.

Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name (Ecco)

The possibility that there are those who choose to escape or evade their identities enters our exploration of Vendela Vida's quest-for-identity novel.

Point to Point Navigation (Doubleday)

Using his recent memoir as springboard, Gore Vidal nimbly leaps from the history of prose narrative to the contemporary decline of culture in America.

Isabel Allende uncloaks Inés, a shrouded figure from the chronicles of Chilean history. She was a conquistadora, a conspirator--but also a healer.