Bookworm

Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels (Everyman's Library)
A New York Times poll indicated that John Updike's quartet of Rabbit novels is one of the five most important achievements in fiction in the past quarter century.

Terrorist (Knopf)
The subject of John Updike's recent bestseller required that he contrast his own reliance on faith with the more violent faith of a young Islamic terrorist. This first of a two-part conversation explores the dark side of empathy and identification.

Frances Johnson (Clear Cut Press)

Present Company (Copper Canyon); Summer Doorways (Shoemaker and Hoard)

For his first visit to Bookworm, the eminent American poet, W. S. Merwin, explores the sequence of odes in which he addresses everything from inanimate objects to his own soul...

Beasts of No Nation (Harper Collins)

Forcing himself to inhabit the terrifying heart of amorality and violence, Uzodinma Iweala has created the first-person voice of a child-soldier.

Big Fat Little Lit (Puffin)
Back by popular demand! Editors Spiegelman and Mouly talk about how they recruited and supervised the many artists and writers who created these "comics for kids..."

When you've written as many stories as Joyce Carol Oates, the process of choosing just sixty of them for an omnibus is daunting. Here, Oates explores those choices...

Talk Talk (Viking)
When T. C. Boyle sits down to write a thriller, none of the usual rules apply. He starts with a young deaf woman, a computer animator and an identity thief and creates a novel about communication. We explore some of the buried connections that take him beyond the thriller form into an exploration of the things that keep human identity intact.

(Random House)