This Week in Calendar

Sarah Weinman reviews “Blind Fall,” a novel by Christopher Rice.

Dinah Lenney reviews “The Lyncher in Me: A Search for Redemption in the Face of History” by Warren Read.

Tim Rutten reviews “A Curious Earth,” a novel by Gerard Woodward.

The following reviews are scheduled:

Erik Himmelsbach reviews “Instamatic Karma: Photographs of John Lennon” by May Pang.

Tod Goldberg reviews “The Shadow Year,” a novel by Jeffrey Ford.

Laurel Maury reviews “Krazy and Ignatz, 1941-42: A Ragout of Raspberries” by George Herriman.

On the Web

This week at latimes.com/books:

In Dark Passages, Sarah Weinman uses Dashiell Hammett’s quintessential private eye novel, “The Maltese Falcon” -- which is the National Endowment for the Arts’ latest Big Read selection for libraries and communities across the country -- to get at the issue of reinvention in the mystery, books that tweak our expectations of the form.

Lists and blog: Look for expanded bestsellers, book excerpts, photo galleries and our calendar of local literary events.

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