Complete books coverage for March 22, 2009

The trailblazing work of science fiction writer Miles J. Breuer is worth reading in a new collection -- if you can stand the cover.

March 22, 2009

What’s so great about the United States? Two new books on the nation’s history and vision of a privileged destiny.

March 22, 2009

A talk with the author’s son on the occasion of three of the late German writer’s books being published in new English editions.

March 22, 2009

Searching for an elusive poet in his works.

March 22, 2009

More than a century after the Sierra Nevada tragedy, the author drags her family along on a quest to crash the Donner Party, or at least to track one of its ghosts.

March 22, 2009

The author’s wrenching short stories are the literary equivalent of scratch marks on the skin.

March 22, 2009

Can a relationship be broken down into items sold at an auction? The author turns four years into a catalog of what’s hip and chic.

March 22, 2009

‘Naming Infinity’ by Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor; ‘Listening Below the Noise’ by Anne D. LeClaire; ‘Stalking Irish Madness’ by Patrick Tracey.

March 22, 2009

Fiction weeks on list1.Handle With Care by Jodi Picoult (Atria: $27.95) A family is thrown into turmoil when they sue over their daughter’s medical condition.1 2.The Women by T.C.

March 22, 2009

Fiction 1. The Shack by William P. Young ($14.99) 2. The Reader by Bernhard Schlink ($13.95) 3.

March 22, 2009

Author and book events for the week of March 22, 2009

March 22, 2009