In essence, a masterful "Law and Order" episode from Gabriel García Márquez.

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John Burdett's detective Sonchai Jitpleecheep brings home the Bangkok goods, and then some.

John Fante does the down-and-out Americana better than most. This is his flop-house masterpiece.

Poet-novelist Helen Humphreys enters the Devon countryside, finding albino foxes and a woman's longing.

A Canadian sportswriter talks to the men Muhammad Ali beat up on — including George Chuvalo and Chuck Wepner.

E.L. Doctorow Civil War novel brings William Tecumseh Sherman, and immolated Georgia, into rich view.

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Sebald's remembrance of wartime past is scientific in precision and profound in moral detail.

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