This Week in Calendar

Martin Rubin reviews “Zugzwang,” a novel by Ronan Bennett.

Yxta Maya Murray reviews “Mongrels, Bastards, Orphans, and Vagabonds: Mexican Immigration and the Future of Race in America” by Gregory Rodriguez.

Tim Rutten reviews “Modernism: The Lure of Heresy” by Peter Gay.

The following reviews are scheduled:

David L. Ulin reviews “The Annotated Godfather: The Complete Screenplay” by Jenny M. Jones.

Frederick R. Lynch reviews “Boom!: Voices of the Sixties” by Tom Brokaw.

Charles Solomon reviews “Lines of Contention: Political Cartoons of the Civil War” by J.G. Lewin and P.J. Huff.

On the Web

This week at latimes.com/books:

In Paperback Writers, Richard Rayner discovers an unexpected aesthetic sympathy between the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda, who died in 1973 at the age of 69, and the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. “The two,” Rayner suggests, “resemble each other in interesting ways: both world writers, both prodigiously prolific and immensely popular, both looking to American writers for their early inspiration, both translators themselves and the beneficiaries of brilliant and devoted other translators who have delivered their work into English.”

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