Complete book coverage for January 10, 2010
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In ‘Talking About Detective Fiction,’ P.D. James digs at the bedrock of the genre.
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Writer Steve Oney spent decades researching the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, but his voluminous files now belong to history.
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The virtual reality guru loved the free-form Internet. Now, he thinks, it’s been subverted. So he writes manifestoes.
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God, drugs and characters adrift in worlds of their own creation.
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Plus: Andrew Porter’s ‘The Theory of Light and Matter’ and Susan Hand Shetterly’s ‘Settled in the Wild’
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An early work by the author anticipates his later successes with “The Savage Detectives” and “2666.”
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A piercing account of the daily ordeals faced by ordinary North Koreans.
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A slim snapshot of academic conditions on American college campuses from a New Yorker writer.
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The author’s latest novel, which wraps up as bit too neatly to be convincing, follows a teenage orphan’s search for his adoptive father set against the political turmoil of 1960s Indonesia.
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Fiction Weeks on list1.The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Putnam: $24.95) The lives of a maid, a cook and a college graduate become intertwined as they change a Mississippi town. 31 2.Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel ( Henry Holt: $27) The rise of Henry VIII’s advisor Thomas Cromwell.9 3.Too Much Happiness by Alice Munro (Knopf : $25.95) The short story master explores women and their relationships in 10 new stories. 6 4.U is for Undertow by Sue Grafton (Putnam: $27.95) PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the 20-year-old case of the mysterious disappearance of a 4-year-old girl.45.The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown (Doubleday: $25.99) Harvard professor Robert Langdon uses his symbology skills to find a missing Freemason in Washington, D.C. 166.Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days by Jeff Kinney (Amulet: $13.95) Greg desires to spend summer vacation indoors despite his mother’s wishes for outdoor family fun.127.A Gate at the Stairs by Lorrie Moore (Knopf: $25.95) A naive Midwestern college coed takes a job as a nanny for a recently adopted toddler. 98.Pirate Latitudes by Michael Crichton (Harper: $27.99) A swashbuckling pirate and his crew attempt to commandeer a Spanish ship carrying a golden treasure.59.The Book of Genesis Illustrated by R.
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Fiction 1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95) 2.
