... Maxine Clarke is enchanted by Ian McEwan's latest: A beach honeymoon amid shifting sands.
... Vikram Johri is much impressed by Khaled Hosseini's follow-up to The Kite Runner: The cruel, luckless lot of Afghan women.
... Carlin Romano has high praise for the new Ralph Ellison biography: Ralph Ellison, rendered visible.
... David Walton thinks Vincent Bugliosi has the definitive word on JFK's assassination: Making a weighty case against JFK conspiracy.
... Katie Haegele looks at "poem sparks": Her forum seeks to spark poetry, introduce poets to others' work.
... Paula Marantz Cohen considers the sad case of Brooke Astor: Her long life of glitter, giving and, recently, pathos.
and this past week ...
... Edward Champion pondered Richard Flanagan's new book: Australian version of Böll novel.
... and Karen Heller liked Kaui Hart Hemmings' debut a lot: A fine setting for sorrow.
I particularly enjoyed the comic dimensions of On Chesil Beach - which many reviewers fail to mention - due to McEwan's exquisite control of tone and diction; due in fact to the incongruity between this tone and the almost banal circumstances described, always a rich source of irony: 'one rhythmically disturbed follicle'.
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