The war issue: book coverage for May 16, 2010.
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Embedded with an Army unit in a fierce part of Afghanistan, the author of ‘The Perfect Storm’ witnessed the bonds of faith and love that make soldiers a family.
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The dialogue and description of the troops’ plight are realistic. But the conspiracy they get caught up in is absurd.
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The author’s latest is a black comedy about suicide bombing and the absurdities of fate.
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Reviews of ‘The End of Major Combat Operations,’ ‘Stripping Bare the Body’ and ‘Valley of Death.’
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The anthology “The Secret History of Science Fiction” contains many gems - including an early story by novelist Don DeLillo.
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The late Macedonio Fernández’s masterwork is a meditation on the reading, writing and inhabiting of novels.
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Heard, a Mississippi native, does a deft job of untangling the Magnolia State’s snarled web of race, sex and politics in the tragic tale of Willie McGee. In the end, however, the truth about McGee remains as murky as a Mississippi swamp.
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In the author’s new novel, the Holocaust and its implications resonate generations later.
