Dispatches
by Michael Herr
TRUE
When Michael Herr died this week, this book, one of the few he wrote, understandably dominated his obituaries. Published in 1977, a decade after his year spent reporting in Vietnam—and after he weathe... (Tom)
Eleven Hours
by Pamela Erens
MADE-UP
You can likely read this slim novel in less than eleven hours, but it will feel like it's happening in real time. The clock starts with the morning admission of Lore, 31 years old and alone, to a New... (Tom)
Little Labors
by Rivka Galchen
If you need an antidote to the visceral immersion of Eleven Hours, here it is. Galchen holds children, and her own baby—whom she refers to, without explanation, as "the puma"—at arm's length, and you... (Tom)
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