FICTION
Anne Tyler, Noah's Compass (Knopf). "... a small story that provides an interesting variation on those dismal tales of aging by Roth & Co." Ron Charles, wp.

John Grisham, Ford County: Stories (Doubleday). Racconti di vita di una cittadina del Mississippi. "Unfortunately, even though Grisham works with fertile material and potentially compelling plots, Ford County is a failure." Kevin O'Kelly, bg.

NONFICTION
Are We Related?: The New Granta Book of the Family, a cura di Liz Jobey (Granta Books). Trenta testimonianze o racconti sul tema della famiglia. Tra gli autori: Doris Lessing, Jane Anne Phillips, Hanif Kureishi, Jackie Kay, Helen Simpson, Linda Grant, Orhan Pamuk, Graham Swift, Ian Jack, Justine Picardie, Edmund White, Joy Williams, Paul Theroux, A.L. Kennedy, Siri Hustvedt e David Goldblatt. G/O.

Robert Wright, The Evolution of God (Little, Brown). Can science explain religion? nyrb.

Daniel Menaker, A Good Talk: The Story and Skill of Conversation (Twelve). Guida alla buona conversazione. lat.

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