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...brother's wife Brenda and her 15-month-old baby Erica. Four months later, Ron--with the help of another brother, Dan--carried out his divine assignment with a 10-in. boning knife. Jon Krakauer tells the story of the Lafferty brothers in Under the Banner of Heaven (Doubleday; 372 pages...
This review is written by an Asian living in Britain, a point worth mentioning because it may help explain why I found Monica Ali's Brick Lane (Doubleday; 413 pages) as dull as dhal. For those with no personal experience of the book's central milieu - London's Bangladeshi community - it might seem a spicy treat, full of colorful, richly detailed characters and aromatic atmospherics. Indeed most British reviewers have greeted it with effusive praise, many of them endorsing Granta's selection of Ali as one of Britain's 20 best young novelists. But if you've grown...
...particular, Crist remembers the summer of 1977, when 7 or 8 Lampoon writers—including himself, Meyer and Owen—stayed in Cambridge to work on The Harvard Lampoon Book of College Life, which Doubleday had commissioned...
Crake is the low-key mad scientist in Margaret Atwood's rueful tale of mad science, Oryx and Crake (Doubleday; 374 pages), a book about an awful future. He's the kind of guy who says things like "Let's suppose for the sake of argument that civilization as we know it gets destroyed." He didn't intend that remark as a commentary on the book he's in, but it certainly could apply, especially if you factor in his next line: "Want some popcorn...
This question probably sounded more urgent before the advent of John Ashcroft and his charmingly Orwellian Total Information Awareness program, but it's still well worth asking. In Jennifer Government (Doubleday; 321 pages), Max Barry imagines a near future in which our lives are so dominated by our employers that we take their last names. Barry's hero, Hack Nike (see how it works?), is a low-level cubicle dweller who gets embroiled in a scheme to stage a series of killings as a promotional gimmick to sell sneakers: it's murder as advertising. Out to stop the plan...