... one of mine: Daphne Kalotay's 'Russian Winter' is about jewels, and Stalin, and how one becomes who one is. (Though it was cut for space - a good cut, by the way, since it the point was really ancillary - I also noted that the book was very good at conveying the terrifying claustrophobia of life under Stalin. In this it was better than Martin Amis's House of Meetings, also set in the Stalin era, and which I also reviewed. Amis has his story narrated by a character whose addiction to irony undercuts the emotional impact of the story.)
... 'The Whites of Their Eyes': Tea party's fundamentalist streak.
... and one by Judith: Panthea Reid penetrates riddles of the troubled yet creative Tillie Olsen.
... Oliver Sacks' new book seeks meaning in perception
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