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A review of the book "Lessons: A Novel," by Ian McEwan, is presented.

A review of the book "A Long Dark Rainbow," by Sheila Tappenden, is presented.

The article reviews the book "Chest Pains," by Janet Nichols Lynch.

The article presents a review of the books "Single Over Thirty: Witty Insights into the Single Life (Now That You're Not a Kid Anymore)," by John D. Husband, and "I Can't Believe I'm Still Single," by Eric Schaeffer.

Reviews the book "The Single Guy's Survival Guide: 7 Secrets of the Modern Alpha Male," by Dean Mignola.

Reviews the book "Love Monkey," by Kyle Smith.

Anthology of freshly translated stories by the acerbic master of early continental modernism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reviews the book 'Madmen Must,' by William Jovanovich.

The article reviews the book "Naked Nomads," by George Gilder.

A review of the book "All That Man Is," by David Szalay is presented.

Reviews the book "Young, Free and Single? Twenty-Somethings and Household Change," Sue Heath and Elizabeth Cleaver.

The article reviews the book "Naked Nomads: Unmarried Men in America," by George Gilder.

The article reviews the book "How to Create the Perfect Wife: Britain's Most Ineligible Bachelor and His Enlightened Quest to Train the Ideal Mate," by Wendy Moore.

The article reviews the book "Busy Monsters," by William Giraldi.

Nicholas Hoult: 'A Single Man' The English actor Nicholas Hoult has been working in film and television since he was 6. American audiences may know him for his role as Marcus, the put-upon, round-cheeked 12-year-old who tenderized Hugh Grant's heartless playboy in the 2002 romantic comedy ''About a Boy.'' Since then, thanks to snagging the alpha male role in the hugely popular teenagers-gone-wild British television series ''Skins,'' he has become a certified heartthrob at home. A midnight skinny-dipping scene in the designer Tom Ford's drama ''A Single Man'' (Dec. 11) suggests one reason why. Mr. Hoult is now a lithe, graceful 6-foot-3, and along the way that formerly chubby face has acquired dramatic cheekbones, a lush lower lip, sparkling deep-blue eyes and thick eyebrows that shoot up so sharply that he looks a bit like an alien, albeit a very handsome one. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the book "Single With Benefits," by Relentless Aaron.

Being John Amsterdam's girlfriend would probably feel like a trying business, partly because he is a New York homicide detective, but mostly because he has lived for 366 years, accomplishing enough to acquire a not entirely unwarranted sense of arrogance. To make matters even more troublesome, John has spent all of his exceedingly long life in New York, where, ever since the first days of the pelt trade, presumably, the dating scene has been at once so vigorous and disappointing that he has gone out with more than 600 women, never finding ''the one.'' Immortality is the spinning wheel of ''New Amsterdam,'' a Fox series that begins on Tuesday, but you could just as easily say that it runs on an exaltation of the selective codes of Manhattan bachelorhood. And once you start seeing the show through this lens, it is hard not to experience it as a kind of maddening invitation to grievance. All those singles mixers at Governor Stuyvesant's, all those iterations of Columbus Avenue, and no one has been compelling enough to fracture John's heart into a million desperate, needy splinters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews the VH1 reality television program "Scott Baio is 45 . . . and Single." An apology is offered for the "Joanie Loves Chachi" television program.

Reviews the book "Are We There Yet?," by Rachael Weiss.

This is an article that offers tips on how to increase viewership for the television program "The Bachelor," which has lost its popularity. The bloom is off the rose. Not only has ABC's once addictive reality romance suffered a decline in ratings this season, its watercooler worthiness is, to borrow a phrase from one of the show's tongue-twisted hopefuls, "nilch, nada." And for a while, the show's promise of a climactic proposal kept us coming back for more. But now that every Bachelor romance has fizzled, we're jaded-and the fact that pro fisherman Byron, this season's designated wife bait, is yet another Hot Boring Guy doesn't help. Alas, the only thing humorous about Byron is the Fabio-meets-Jeff Spicoli hair. Enough already with the Bikini Brigade, whose matching taut tummies and bleached teeth make them maddeningly interchangeable. More reality, less fantasy.

Reviews the book "Single Professional Man," by John Womersley.