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Absolution: A Novel, by Alice McDermott (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 336 pp., $28) Alice McDermott contends that women often avoid writing about women's lives because they tend to be perceived [...]

The Village Idiot: A Novel, by Steve Stern (Melville House, 368 pp., $27.99) Considered one of the 20th century's leading Expressionist artists, Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) was obsessed with drawing and [...]

Burning Boy: The Life and Work of Stephen Crane, by Paul Auster (Henry Holt, 800 pp., $35) STEPHEN CRANE was 24 years old when his masterpiece, The Red Badge of [...]

The Life and Zen Haiku Poetry of Santoka Taneda, Japan's Most Beloved Modern Haiku Poet, by Sumita Oyama, translated by William Scott Wilson (Tuttle, 352 pp., $19.99) As Japan opened [...]

Hamnet: A Novel of the Plague, by Maggie O'Farrell (Knopf, 320 pp., $26.95) William Shakespeare was born in 1564 during one of several outbreaks of the bubonic plague that killed [...]

Pity the Beautiful: Poems, by Dana Gioia (Graywolf, 68 pp., $15) Angels--at least according to Hollywood--are handsome, shining, and strong. But the angel in Dana Gioia's new book of poems [...]