'Thirteen
Days in September'
By LAWRENCE WRIGHT
Reviewed by JOE KLEIN
Lawrence
Wright offers a minute-by-minute account of the 1978 Camp David peace talks
between Israel and Egypt.
Also in the Book Review
'World
Order'
By HENRY KISSINGER
Reviewed by JOHN MICKLETHWAIT
Henry
Kissinger's "World Order" brings together history, geography and
modern politics in considering how to balance the competing desires of nations.
'Political
Order and Political Decay'
By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
Reviewed by SHERI BERMAN
Francis
Fukuyama chronicles international political history to define liberal democracy
and discover how and why it develops.
Sara
Paretsky: By the Book
The author of
the V. I. Warshawski novels, most recently "Critical Mass," was
hugely influenced by "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man":
"I felt as though I'd fallen into words and wanted to drown in them."
'The
Monogram Murders'
By SOPHIE HANNAH
Reviewed by ALEXANDER McCALL SMITH
Hercule
Poirot reappears, courtesy of Sophie Hannah, years after solving his "last
case."
'The
Children Act'
By IAN MCEWAN
Reviewed by DEBORAH FRIEDELL
In this Ian
McEwan novel, a judge must decide the case of a teenage Jehovah's Witness who
refuses treatment for leukemia.
'De
Potter's Grand Tour'
By JOANNA SCOTT
Reviewed by JOHN VERNON
An
antiquities collector disappears off the coast of Greece in 1905, and his wife
discovers that his life was not what it seemed.
'Mr.
Tall'
By TONY EARLEY
Reviewed by JESS WALTER
Tony Earley's stories include a skunk ape, a talking dog and the
sometimes surprising, sometimes lonely lives of ordinary people.
'Agent
Storm: My Life Inside Al Qaeda and the CIA'
By MORTEN STORM with
PAUL CRUICKSHANK and TIM LISTER.
Reviewed by SCOTT SHANE
A
whistle-blower describes his path from biker-gang leader to Muslim activist to
spy for three Western intelligence agencies.
'Station
Eleven'
By EMILY ST. JOHN
MANDEL
Reviewed by SIGRID NUNEZ
After a
pandemic kills most of the human race, a traveling theater company roams
around, searching for an audience.
'Acceptance'
By JEFF VANDERMEER
Reviewed by SCOTT HUTCHINS
In a trilogy's
conclusion, the mysterious ecosystem known as Area X yields more of its
secrets.
'War
and Gold'
By KWASI KWARTENG
Reviewed by DANIEL W. DREZNER
A historian
examines the rise of the gold standard and the economies that have embraced and
abandoned it.
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