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Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY LONDON CALLING The latest British novels find the old hierarchies overturned by sex, scheming, and darkly shining stars of fate. Thomas Cromwell is once [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER AMERICAN IDYLL TWO SPRING NOVELS EXPLORE THE MYTHS OF MARRIAGE AND DESTINY. Composition is the arrangement of unequal things,' explains Dell, the Ruskin-quoting narrator [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY A DAY IN THE LIFE FOUR SPRING NOVELS MAKE THE PAST FEEL NEW. This month, historical fiction casts off the lace petticoats with irreverent [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY IN AN IDEAL WORLD LAUREN GROFF'S DAZZLING NEW NOVEL BRINGS THE FLAWED VISIONS OF A '60S COMMUNE TO LIFE. If our precarious times have [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY SAVING GRACE The trouble with a book is that you never know what's in it until it's too late,' Jeanette Winterson's adoptive mother would [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER THE LAST SEDUCTION TALES OF LOST LOVE AND ROMANTIC ROMPS DEFINE THE MONTH'S BEST FICTION. Aspellbinding saga of subverted identity and an irrepressible love, [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER GRAND AMBITIONS What are the elements of a twenty-first-century epic? Sometimes there's a grandeur to be found in an intimate personal history. Moving between [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY LOVE AND MARRIAGE HUSBANDS, WIVES, AND LOVERS POPULATE THE MONTH'S BEST FICTION. All you have to do is sleep with somebody and get caught [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER DISTANT SHORES A NOVELIST GIVES VOICE TO A LOST GENERATION. The term Japanese picture bride conjures a trunkful of romantic images: a sepia-toned photograph; [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER SOUL SURVIVOR Rock continues its swaggering dominion of bookstore shelves with Marc Spitz's Jagger: Rebel, Rock Star, Rambler, Rogue (Gotham Books). In his picaresque [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER OTHER WORLDS At a hotel pool in Alexandria, a woman in a yellow swimsuit attracts the attention of an adolescent and his debonair father: [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY YOUNG AMERICANS After her not-quite-rock-star brother, Nik, writes a fantastical account of his career, complete with fake reviews and doctored photographs, Denise, one of [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY SPELLBOUND The discovery of an Amazonian tribe whose women bear children well into their 60s animates Ann Patchett's adrenaline-spiked latest, State of Wonder (Harper), [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MODERN LOVE What happens to sex and intimacy in our socially networked age? The sharply elegant stories in Julian Barnes's Pulse (Knopf) range from [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY L.A. STORY Meg Howrey's engagingly assured debut novel, Blind Sight (Pantheon), begins like a modern-day fairy tale: Seventeen-year-old AP biology student Luke Prescott is [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY OUT OF THIS WORLD A YOUNG AUTHOR MARRIES FACT WITH FICTION IN HER EXTRAORDINARY DEBUT. Where I come from, storytelling is something that people [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY HIGH POLISH EXCEPTIONAL IMAGES AND INSPIRING LIVES DISTINGUISH THE HOLIDAY'S MOST SUMPTUOUS BOOKS. For the most glamorous coffee tables, there's Guy Bourdin: In Between [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER QUEEN OF THE NILE Clever women, Euripides wrote, are dangerous women, and no woman has gone down in history as more clever or dangerous [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER RADIANT DAYS LAUREN REDNISS ILLUMINATES THE PASSIONS OF MARIE AND PIERRE CURIE. There are two dangers in writing about the Curies: One is to [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER TAKING FLIGHT A SPELLBINDING NEW NOVEL FOLLOWS AN ELUSIVE HEROINE THROUGH WARTIME BERLIN. The young woman at the center of Julia Franck's acclaimed novel [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER NOTORIOUS A WRY NEW BIOGRAPHY EXAMINES THE LIFE OF SARAH BERNHARDT. More than eight decades after her death, Sarah Bernhardt remains the most famous [...]

STATE OF THE UNION In a candid interview, Jonathan Franzen talks to Megan O'Grady about the personal roots of his epic new novel, Freedom. I like the fact that novels [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER RELATIVE STRANGERS Lily King's breakout third novel, Father of the Rain (Atlantic Monthly Press), harrowingly evokes a daughter's fierce devotion to her magnetic WASP [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY DRAMATIC DEPARTURES Allegra Goodman's captivating new novel, The Cookbook Collector (Dial), is about two sisters: ambitious Emily, the CEO of a dot-com start-up, and [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER SUMMER BLOCKBUSTERS FIVE BIG NOVELS WITH FIERCE HEROINES AND PYROTECHNIC PROSE. Grounded in the passions and frustrations of a record producer and his nervy [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER FAMILY HISTORY MAY FICTION FINDS THE INTIMATE IN THE EPIC. Conjuring a vanished Mitteleuropa of streetcars and cobblers' shops, Julie Orringer's keenly anticipated first [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER prime time A new biography chronicles Muriel Spark's literary rise. Lucrezia Borgia in trousers' was how Muriel Spark once wryly described herself. By then, [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY free spirits Spring celebrates independence and iconoclasm. Chang-rae Lee's blockbuster novel The Surrendered (Riverhead) follows a fierce young girl from wartime Korea to eighties [...]

Byline: EDITOR: VALERIE STEIKER MEGAN O'GRADY philosopher queen One is not born, but rather becomes, woman': In the six decades since Simone de Beauvoir made her famous assertion, a sea [...]

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker MEGAN O'GRADY FOR LOVE OR MONEY February's best books explore the tarnished heart of the modern Gilded Age. A megabank too big to fail is the [...]

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker MEGAN O'GRADY TOP SHELF A well-chosen book never goes out of fashion. 'Tis the season for books of grand style and imagination. From Russia with love [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker MAKING HISTORY Barbara Kingsolver's first novel in nine years, The Lacuna (Harper) follows the fictional fortunes of Harrison Shepherd, assistant to Diego Rivera, confidant [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker the iconoclasts Fall's biggest books examine the lives of extraordinary women. Told against the twilight of a 2,000-year-old monarchy, Hannah Pakula's The Last Empress: [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker A LITTLE ROMANCE Istanbul, 1975: Kemal, the scion of one of Istanbul's wealthiest families, buys a designer handbag for his Paris-educated fiancA©eonly to fall [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker my brilliant career Ivanka Trump reveals her secrets for success. Most business memoirs are told from the vantage point of an older man reflecting [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker down under Set in Australia, Evie Wyld's astonishing first novel delves into an unspoken family history. I'm fascinated by creepy things,' confesses Evie Wyld, [...]

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker MEGAN O'GRADY WOMAN OF THE YEAR In 1943, the Brazilian novelist Clarice Lispector published her modernist tour de force, Near to the Wild Heart, becoming a [...]

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker MEGAN O'GRADY SKIRTING THE EDGE A revolutionary age comes under intimate scrutiny in Caroline Moorehead's Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of Lucie de la Tour [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker Colm Toibin's masterly latest, Brooklyn (Scribner), captures the wonderment of an Irish girl in 1950s New York. A more ambivalent take on the American [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker The best new memoirs take a frank look at love and loss. With characteristic asperity and immeasurable tenderness, Christopher Buckley mourns his legendary parentsconservative [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker The freshest new fiction takes a backward glance. A ghostly tobacco farm in 1980s Kentucky is the Faulknerian setting for C. E. Morgan's vibrantly [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker The women in Caitlin Macy' s wickedly smart, unwittingly timely short-story collection, Spoiled (Random House), seem to get everything they wanta house in the [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker Ellen Terry made the world her stage. Thomas Hardy described the preeminent Victorian actress Ellen Terry as a 'sea anemone without shadow'; John Singer [...]

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker MEGAN O'GRADY T. C. Boyle's The Women (Viking) reconstructs the unconventional private life of Frank Lloyd Wright through the women who loved him. Set against China's [...]

Byline: editor: Valerie Steiker Megan O'Grady rounds up the best and brightest books of the season. First published in 1799, Robert John Thornton's The Temple of Flora (Taschen) is the [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker Le Divorce meets le souk: Diane Johnson's intrigue-filled latest, Lulu in Marrakech (Dutton), follows another blonde American on an overseas adventure. Lulu Sawyer isn't [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY Photographed by Frederike Helwig When he's not running the streets of Munich or skiing the Alps, Konstantin Grcic is firmly rooted in design's power seat. It's a [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker With her latest book, Home, the celebrated novelist Marilynne Robinson lives up to her dazzling reputation. Any novel from Marilynne Robinson arrives with a [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Valerie Steiker Fall's standout nonfiction abounds with memoirs by women for whom going home again is a dangerous imperative. Somaly Mam's candid and courageous THE ROAD [...]

Byline: MEGAN O'GRADY editor: Sarah Brown Across the country, yoga studios are putting contemporary twists on an ancient practice. yoga to the people BERKELEY CA AND NYC Harried executives unroll [...]