Jeanette Winterson’s fairy-tale search for a mother
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Fumblerooski
Is it too soon to pronounce Obama an economic failure? A different take on The Escape Artists.
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Obama’s Squandered Recovery
In The Escape Artists, Noam Scheiber depicts a White House out of its depth on the financial crisis.
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Watergate Finally Gets Its Novel
Thomas Mallon’s new fiction humanizes the ultimate D.C. scandal.
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Charles Portis’s Guide to the GOP
An obscure book that just might explain the GOP race better than any pundit could
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Under the Covers, Between the Sheets
With the new translation of the Kama Sutra, it’s not all about sex.
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What It Feels Like to Be Poor
Katherine Boo chronicles the intimate realities of poverty in an Indian slum.
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And Then There Was Light, Man
Mimicking a familiar format, Alan Lightman’s Mr. g fails to create a unique world.