The 10 Best Books of 2008
The Book Review picks the best works from the last year.
Books of The Times: A Group Portrait With an Unflinching Focus
Philip Hensher’s new novel is a haunting, loving, trenchantly grotesque story about two families in Sheffield, England, over the course of two politically fraught decades.
ArtsBeat: Major Reorganization at Random House
The shake-up at the world’s largest publisher of consumer books includes the resignations of two top executives.