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How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, by Alan Jacobs (Currency, 160 pp., $23) I made it only to the third item on Alan Jacobs's "Thinking [...]

The World Goes On, by Laszlo Krasznahorkai (New Directions, 288 pp., $24.95) THE title of Laszlo Krasznahorkai's latest book to be translated into English doesn't give much guidance as to [...]

In Sunlight and in Shadow, by Mark Helprin (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 720 pp., $28) THE phrase 'All you need is love' dates back to the Summer of Love in 1967. [...]

Joan Schenkar The Talented Miss Highsmith: The Secret Life & Serious Art of Patricia Highsmith. St. Martin's Press, 684 pages, $40 Patricia Highsmith could be ah unpleasant, even nasty, woman. [...]

Jerusalem, by Alan Moore (Liveright, 1,280 pp., $35) An office move not long ago necessitated one of those painful purges I've had to face almost from the moment I could [...]

Democracy in Britain Perilous Question: Reform or Revolution? Britain on the Brink, 1832, by Antonia Fraser (PublicAffairs, 352 pp., $29.99) THIS lively book by Lady Antonia Fraser more than delivers [...]

The Living Moment: Modernism in a Broken World, by Jeffrey Hart (Northwestern, 184 pp., $24.95) Many critics count it lucky for literature that T. S. Eliot abandoned a career in [...]

'I SAW a Rohmer film once,' Gene Hackman's character in Night Moves famously declared. 'It was kind of like watching paint dry.' Those two lines, in a movie directed by [...]

Why Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think), by John Leland (Viking, 224 pp., $23.95) THE rebel, in all his incarnations, has long been [...]

Four Novels of the 1960s, by Philip K. Dick (Library of America, 900 pp., $35) IN 1981, less than a year before his death, Philip K. Dick wrote that managing [...]

We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction, by Joan Didion (Knopf, 1,160 pp., $30) THE 1960s gave Joan Didion a nervous breakdown--or so it often seems, judging [...]

Focuses on Andy Scott replacing Herb Gray as Canadian solicitor-general. Canada's incarceration rate; Details of Scott and his counterpart, attorney-general Anne McLellan.