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Topic: Books (page 343)

A theatrical master picks five otherworldly novels

Richard Foreman

Ivory Tower: How does the Japanese government turn its students into passive vessels?

Books Log: Will "Primary Colors" author score another win?

Zve Heller's "Everything You Know": An incorrigible creep and his dead daughter's diaries

John Frederick Moore

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Drug cults, incest and the tooth fairy: The dark visions of Graham Joyce

Ivory Tower: Do we really need another Bonesman in the Oval Office?

Stephen Prothero

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"Ghosts of Cape Sabine": Snow, starvation, mutiny, cannibalism -- another great arctic thriller

Bohemian rhapsodies: If '60s hippies taught us anything, it's how not to rebel

Dennis Drabelle

"So I Am Glad": Another wonderfully weird, sexy tale from A.L. Kennedy

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Colin Harrison's "Afterburn": It's mean. It's tough. It's ugly. It's male. But is it art?

Can hip-hop launch a new breed of black fiction?

Ivory Tower: Sex, lies and suicide: The scandal at right-wing Hillsdale College

Dear Mr. Blue: How can I have a fling with a handsome Casanova and happily wave goodbye in the mor

Garrison Keillor

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Too close for comfort: Why is Raymond Carver's masterpiece so much like a story by D.H. Lawrence?

Samantha Gillison

"Between Father and Son": Youthful letters of V.S. Naipaul, before the bile

Ivory Tower: No credits? No problem! On the UVA admissions plan, who you know may be more important than knowledge

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"In Glory's Shadow": How the Citadel broke Shannon Faulkner

Janice P. Nimura

Melanie Rehak on Poetry: One a day, plus irony: David Lehman's "The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry"

Plus: The winning entry in the Acura Book Review Contest: A review of Lynda Barry's illustrated novel "Cruddy"

"Sick Puppy" and "Kick Ass": Carl Hiaasen, outrageous in fiction and outlandish in fact

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