To begin with, though, Carlin Romano offers a distinctly personal appreciation of Naguib Mafouz: Mahfouz: A universal voice in the Arab world.
Carlin also notes, in an essay for Arts & Entertainment, that Obstacles abound for the 9/11 novel.
Next, Susan Balee takes a look at Philly fiction: Where there's pain, there's good fiction.
John Freeman discovers that a little of Jonathan Franzen's discomfort goes a long way: Writer's lifelong struggle with guilt.
Tim Worstall makes his Inquirer debut with a look at another way of looking at the world: Looking at world through shape of a 'J'.
And Vikram Johri makes his American debut with a provocative review of Michael Barone's updated edition of The New Americans: On the multicultural fallacy.
Dorothy Lehman Hoerr likes Marie Arana's debut: Cellophane in the Amazon? Clearly a winner .
And Katie Haegele is much taken with Cecil Castellucci's Boy Proof: Young Adult Reader Egg breaks out of her sci-fi shell and learns just to be herself.
Last week, besides those linked to already here, we ran Theopolis Fair's review of Waiting for the Midnight Hour: Giving black power its due in American and world history
and Elizabeth Fox's review of Stephanie Bond's Body Movers: Book Review Men, family, money troubles, sealed with a big pink kiss.
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