FICTION
Don DeLillo, Point Omega (Scribner). Un libro sulla guerra in Iraq, discussa da tre personaggi, tra New York e la California. lat.

Louise Erdrich, Shadow Tag (Harper). Storia di disamore tra due artisti native americans. lat.

Zachary Mason, The Lost Books of the Odyssey (FS&G). "... a series of jazzy, post-modernist variations on “The Odyssey,” and ... an ingeniously Borgesian novel that’s witty, playful, moving and tirelessly inventive", Michiko Kakutani, nyt.

T. Coraghessan Boyle, Wild Child. Stories (Viking). Racconti di folli vite ordinarie, tra cui quello che dà il titolo alla raccolta, basato sulla vita di Victor, il ragazzo selvaggio di Aveyron nella Francia rivoluzionaria. nytbr.

NONFICTION
Chris Welles Feder, In My Father's Shadow: A Daughter Remembers Orson Welles (Mainstream Publishing): La figlia di Orson Welles rivela particolari toccanti di suo padre. g/o.

DA LEGGERE
"It was my luck (perhaps my bad luck) to be the world chess champion during the critical years in which computers challenged, then surpassed, human chess players. In chess, as in so many things, what computers are good at is where humans are weak, and vice versa. This gave me the idea for an experiment. What if instead of human versus machine, we played as partners?" Garry Kasparov sul nyrb.

240 Minutes With Joshua Ferris, nymag.

PAROLE
crash blossoms: indica i titoli di giornali così sintetici da essere ellittici (tipo, “Violinist Linked to JAL Crash Blossoms”, o “Squad Helps Dog Bite Victim” . nytmag.