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Last Updated: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:00:33 -0400

Peace and War Like Jonathan Franzen’s previous novel, “The Corrections,” this is a masterly portrait of a nuclear family in turmoil, with a majestic sweep that gathers every sociocultural morsel of our shared millennial life. 08/31/2010 11:00 PM Where It Hurts An expansive mix of medical reportage, history and memoir explores our relationship to pain. 08/27/2010 11:04 AM The Language of Exile Milan Kundera’s essays illuminate music, painting and writing in the context of what he calls a “post-art” era. 08/31/2010 11:25 AM Den of Antiquities Craig Childs explores archaeology’s ethical debates and the costs of discovering lost history. 08/27/2010 11:04 AM Long Island Confidential A hapless teacher is hurled from one unsavory spot to the next in this fiercely satirical novel. 08/26/2010 05:21 PM Revolutionary Road Seeing the march of American history in the story of the Boston Post Road, a colonial highway turned modern-day ribbon of retail. 08/30/2010 11:31 AM Hangover in a Strange Land This memoir of traveling Europe is not shy about reporting on sex, drinking marathons or personal humiliation. 08/27/2010 11:04 AM Her Darkest Places A Library of America collection showcases Shirley Jackson’s fascination with psychology, society and the terrors of everyday life. 08/27/2010 10:29 AM Nuclear Family The final book in a four-volume series describes the fate of nuclear weapons since the Soviet Union fell. 08/30/2010 11:45 AM I Get Around An absorbing biography of a man who was an academic, a writer, a tattoo artist and an avid sexual adventurer in pre-Stonewall gay America. 08/27/2010 11:04 AM