This Week in Calendar

The following reviews are scheduled:

Jim Sleeper reviews “The Second Plane, September 11: Terror and Boredom,” by Martin Amis.

Tod Goldberg reviews “Submarine,” a novel by Joe Dunthorne.

Tim Rutten reviews “Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism,” by Kevin Phillips.

Elizabeth Brown reviews “Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies,” by Richard Schickel.

Erin Aubry Kaplan reviews “Betrayal: How Black Intellectuals Have Abandoned the Ideals of the Civil Rights Era,” by Houston A. Baker Jr.

Dan Epstein reviews “Like a Rolling Stone: The Strange Life of a Tribute Band,” by Steven Kurutz.

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On the Web

This week at latimes.com/books:

With his “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” series, Alexander McCall Smith has drawn fresh attention to mysteries set in Africa. In Dark Passages, Sarah Weinman shows how other writers, including Henning Mankell, Michael Stanley and Deon Meyer, have taken readers into even darker corners of the continent, far from the realm inhabited by McCall Smith’s sensible, tea-drinking detective agency proprietor, Precious Ramotswe.

Lists and blog: Look for expanded bestseller lists, excerpts, genre columns and calendar of literary events. You can also find information about the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books coming to UCLA on April 26 and 27.

Also, please visit Jacket Copy, our book blog, at latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy.