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I am sure I know more about lying than anybody who has lived on this planet before me. I believe I am the only person alive who is sane upon [...]

Mark Twain's Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years BY LAURA TROMBLEY Knopf, 316 pages Mark Twain: Man in White: The Grand Adventure of His Final Years BY [...]

Under the Dome BY STEPHEN KING Scribner, 1,072 pages A DOME has settled over a small town in Maine. Inside is a thriving little community maintained by a cottage industry, [...]

***1/2 Book of Numbers By Joshua Cohen Joshua Cohen has published four novels, short story collections, and a book-length essay on attention. His work has also appeared in the Believer, [...]

*** The Festival of Insignificance By Milan Kundera, translated from the French by Linda Asher Award-winning author Milan Kundera, now 86, defected from his native Czechoslovakia in 1975 and settled [...]

The article discusses the lives of modern leading heroes and their present lives. The authors have allegedly been writing what they had seen growing up or what they had imagined, however, the world around them has changed. The article discusses cultural shifts, political influences, and recent social influences on the minds of these novelists and how it may be effect their natural style of writing.

Literary Brooklyn: The Writers of Brooklyn and the Story of American City Life BY EVAN HUGHES Henry Holt and Company, 352 pages Is there a Brooklyn style of writing? There [...]

The characters who populate the work of the Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler--who is now enjoying a posthumous moment in the sun owing to the release of a new movie based [...]

Beatrice and Virgil BY YANN MARTEL Spiegel & Grau, 224 pages Yann Martel's new novel, Beatrice and Virgil , begins with a simultaneous complaint and self-defense. The narrator, a reclusive [...]

Solar By IAN MCEWAN Doubleday, 287 pages An early scene in Ian McEwan's globetrotting new novel, Solar , places us on a ship in the Arctic Circle, where a Nobel [...]

The Humbling BY PHILIP ROTH Houghton Mifflin, 160 pages, $22 TOWARD the end of War and Peace , in one of the moments of improbable stagecraft that Tolstoy contrives so [...]

Presents the short story "Contact in the Derawar Mosque," by Sam Sacks.