African Idyll
The Times’s Helene Cooper fled a warring Liberia as a child. In this memoir, she returns to confront the ghosts of her past -- and to find a lost sister.
True Grit
In a new story collection, Annie Proulx returns to disrupt the mythology of the Old West.
Bowling for Justices
In Christopher Buckley’s new novel, the fun begins when a popular TV judge is appointed to the Supreme Court.
