New and Noteworthy
Elegant novels of ideas, sparkling summer reading, travels with Dame Agatha
Book Review
The Nonconformist
Our author reconsiders A.J.P. Taylor and the question his work provokes: Is history just one damned thing after another?
A Year in the Life
A microhistory of an extraordinary literary collaboration
The Wedding Merchants
Marriage is in Chapter Eleven, but the white wedding is in the black
Brief Reviews
by Da Chen. Random House, 320 pages, $25.00.