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• The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• My Life in France by Julia Child, with Alex Prud’homme
Reviewed by Jennifer Leblanc

• The Translation of Dr. Apelles by David Treuer
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes by the Editors of McSweeney’s
Reviewed by Maggie Hill

• Queenpin by Megan Abbott
Reviewed by Jennifer Leblanc

• Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America’s Most Important Idea by George Lakoff
Reviewed by Michael Broek

• Stick Out Your Tongue by Ma Jian
Reviewed by Summer Block

• The Last Summer of the World by Emily Mitchell
Reviewed by Horam Kim

• Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr
Reviewed by Alicita Rodriguez

• The Understory by Pamela Erens
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• The Words of Every Song by Liz Moore
Reviewed by Maggie Hill

• Partial List of People to Bleach by Gary Lutz
Reviewed by Steve Himmer

• The Great Man by Kate Christensen
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson

• Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee by Peter Richmond
Reviewed by Summer Block

• Old Heart: Poems by Stanley Plumly
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson

• Still to Mow by Maxine Kumin
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson

• The Heartless Stone by Tom Zoellner
Reviewed by Alicita Rodriguez

• The Gravedigger’s Daughter by Joyce Carol Oates
Reviewed by Mark Dundas Wood

• Matrimony by Joshua Henkin
Reviewed by Adam Goldwyn

• The Apocalypse Reader Edited by Justin Taylor
Reviewed by Michael Signorelli

• The Time it Takes to Fall by Margaret Lazarus Dean
Reviewed by Julie Mollins

• Out of Egypt: A Memoir by Andre Aciman
Reviewed by Brendan Hughes

• Temptations of the West by Pankaj Mishra
Reviewed by Jonathan Baskin

• Little New York Bastard: A Memoir by M. Dylan Raskin
Reviewed by Brendan Hughes

• Rotten English: A Literary Anthology edited by Dohra Ahmad
Reviewed by Jess deCourcy Hinds

• Falling Man by Don DeLillo
Reviewed by Scott Esposito

• The Collected Stories by Leonard Michaels
Reviewed by Joan Motyka

• Sylvia: A Novel by Leonard Michaels
Reviewed by Jessica Allen

• White Guys by Anthony Giardina
Reviewed by Summer Block

• Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Grrls Gone Wild by Deborah Siegel
Reviewed by Anastassiya Andrianova

• The Other Mother by Gwendolen Gross
Reviewed by Maggie Hill

• Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• Altared: Bridezillas, Bewilderment, Big Love, Breakups, and What Women Really Think About Contemporary Weddings Edited by Colleen Curran
Reviewed by Summer Block

• The Fighter by Craig Davidson
Reviewed by Mark Dundas Wood

• Angelica by Arthur Phillips
Reviewed by Anastassiya Andrianova

• The O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 edited by Laura Furman
Reviewed by Reese Kwon

• Possible Side Effects by Augusten Burroughs
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson

• On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan
Reviewed by Jessica Allen

• The Insufficiency of Maps by Nora Pierce
Reviewed by Adam Goldwyn

• The Afterlife: A Memoir by Donald Antrim
Reviewed by Jessica Allen

• When I Was a Loser: True Stories of (Barely) Surviving High School Edited by John McNally
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson

• I Love You, Beth Cooper by Larry Doyle
Reviewed by Jill Meyers

• If Minds Had Toes by Lucy Eyre
Reviewed by Anastassiya Andrianova

• The Killing Jar by Nicola Monaghan
Reviewed by Horam Kim

• The Dressmaker by Elizabeth Birkelund Oberbeck
Reviewed by Adam Goldwyn

• Yes, Yes, Cherries: Stories by Mary Otis
Reviewed by Michael Signorelli

• The Optics of Evening by J.P. Greene
Reviewed by Summer Block

• In the Wake by Per Petterson
Reviewed by Reese Kwon

• Brookland by Emily Barton
Reviewed by Julie Mollins

• The Amputee’s Guide to Sex by Jillian Weise
Reviewed by Summer Block

• The Tree-Sitter by Susan Matson
Reviewed by Adam Goldwyn

• Wideawake Field by Eliza Griswold
Reviewed by Abigail Holstein

• Untold Stories by Alan Bennett
Reviewed by Summer Block

• Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Kates Shulman
Reviewed by Adam Goldwyn

• The Savage Detectives by Roberto Bolaño
Reviewed by Jon Baskin

• 8: A Memoir by Amy Fusselman
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• The Session by Aaron Petrovich
Reviewed by Michael Signorelli

• The Wild Braid: A Poet Reflects on a Century in the Garden by Stanley Kunitz with Genine Lentine
Reviewed by Jessica Allen

• The List by Tara Ison
Reviewed by Laurence Dumortier

• Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
Reviewed by Steve Himmer

• Forth a Raven by Christina Davis
Reviewed by Jen Tynes

• Brief Encounters With Che Guevara by Ben Fountain
Reviewed by Jon Baskin

• O Street by Corrina Wycoff
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• Ticknor by Sheila Heti
Reviewed by Matthew Tiffany

• The Unbinding by Walter Kirn
Reviewed by Abigail Holstein

• Radical Love: 5 Novels by Fanny Howe
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke (1943–1963) by Theodore Roethke (Edited by David Wagoner)
Reviewed by Jessica Allen

• The Pajamaist by Matthew Zapruder
Reviewed by Abigail Holstein

• The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
Reviewed by Thalia Aurinko-Mostow

• The Red Passport by Katherine Shonk
Reviewed by Meehan Crist

• Outfoxing Fear: Folktales from Around the World Edited by Kathleen Ragan
Reviewed by Irina Reyn

• The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara by James Schuyler (Edited by William Corbett)
Reviewed by Jessica Allen

• The Tourists by Jeff Hobbs
Reviewed by Jon Baskin

• The Best American Mystery Stories 2006 by Scott Turow, Guest Editor
Reviewed by Brendan Hughes

• Ruin (poems) by Cynthia Cruz
Reviewed by Tom Haushalter

• The Cleansing by George Rabasa
Reviewed by Meehan Crist

• Don’t Make Me Stop Now (stories) by Michael Parker
Reviewed by Joshua Citrak

• Behind the Moon by Hsu-Ming Teo
Reviewed by Mark Dundas Wood

• Jar City by Arnaldur Indridason
Reviewed by Steve Himmer

• The Best American Comics 2006 by Harvey Pekar, Guest Editor
Reviewed by Joshua Mandelbaum

• Last Seen Leaving by Kelly Braffet
Reviewed by Mark Dundas Wood

• The Zero by Jess Walter
Reviewed by Jill Meyers

• The Town That Forgot How to Breathe by Kenneth J. Harvey
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• The Tattoo by Chris McKinney
Reviewed by Brendan Hughes

• Nocturnal America by John Keeble
Reviewed by Jon Baskin

• After the Victorians : The Decline of Britain in the World by A. N. Wilson
Reviewed by Margaret Foley

• Paradise by Koji Suzuki
Reviewed by Brendan Hughes

• The Coldest Winter – A Stringer in Liberated Europe by Paula Fox
Reviewed by Abigail Holstein

• Brother Salvage (Poems) by Rick Hilles
Reviewed by Tom Haushalter

• The Paris Review Interviews, vol.1 Introduction by Philip Gourevitch
Reviewed by Jon Baskin

• Remainder by Tom McCarthy
Reviewed by Jon Baskin

• Don’t Get Too Comfortable: The Indignities of Coach Class, The Torments of Low Thread Count, The Never-Ending Quest for Artisanal Olive Oil, and Other First World Problems by David Rakoff
Reviewed by Patricia R. Payette

• The Perfect Thing: How the iPod Shuffles Commerce, Culture, and Coolness by Steven Levy
Reviewed by Patrick Hunnicutt

• Spit Baths: Stories by Greg Downs
Reviewed by Brendan Hughes

• What Do You Do All Day? by Amy Scheibe
Reviewed by Patricia Payette

• Memorial by Bruce Wagner
Reviewed by Michael Signorelli

• The Frozen Ship: The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration By Sarah Moss
Reviewed by Brendan Hughes

• All Aunt Hagar’s Children by Edward P. Jones
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson

• A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City, A Diary by Anonymous
Reviewed by John A. Mangarella

• Carnivore Diet By Julia Slavin
Reviewed by Amy Havel

• Her Body Knows: Two Novellas By David Grossman
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• The Cage By Kenzo Kitakata
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• Visigoth: Stories By Gary Amdahl
Reviewed by Danielle Alexander

• Jack and Other Poems By Maxine Kumin
Reviewed by Camille-Yvette Welsch

• Everything Else in the World (poems) By Stephen Dunn
Reviewed by Joanna Pearson

• South of the Pumphouse By Les Claypool
Reviewed by Joshua Citrak

• This is Not Chick Lit Edited by Elizabeth Merrick
Reviewed by Camille-Yvette Welsch

• Crawl Space By Edie Meidav
Reviewed by Steve Himmer

• The Meaning of Night: A Confession By Michael Cox
Reviewed by Patricia Payette

• The Joy of Funerals By Alix Strauss
Reviewed by Pedro Ponce

• Offshore: The Dark Side of the Global Economy By William Brittain-Catlin
Reviewed by Margaret Foley

• New Stories from the South: 2006 - The Year's Best Edited by Allan Gurganus
Reviewed by Daisy Levy

• Who I Was Supposed to Be by Susan Perabo
Reviewed by Matthew Tiffany

• Lipshitz Six, or Two Angry Blondes by T Cooper
Reviewed by Cara Seitchek

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