We hear the singer's name three times but never learn his lover's. Chivalry? Rivalry? I don't know. But I bet my neighbors know his name.

The Exception, already an international best-seller, is as wonderfully creepy and suspenseful as it is nutritious.

New England White is a novel that dwells a great deal on race, but surprisingly little is black-and-white.

Michael Chabon's novel revisits Holocaust-era politics in the Alaskan town of Sitka where Jewish refugees have been granted 60-year squatting rights.