Hari Kunzru's attempt to make 60s terrorism relevant suffers from tediousness.

Aleksandar Hemon started writing English in his 20s. A decade later, he's a master.

Magnus Mills finds a way to make even George Orwell look funny.

The late Israeli writer Amos Elon's masterful history is one for the ages.

Edward J. Larson provides a judicious and brilliant account of the Scopes Trial.

David Malouf's remarkable "habitation" of The Iliad is as good as he, and it, gets.

Big-time banker Stephen Green talks big but ends up condescending.

Sweden and detective fiction are soul-mates, and Henning Mankel is proof.

Philippe Claudell delivers a superlative parable about man's worst instincts, and his best.