On the Cover of Sunday's Book ReviewBy BING WEST
Reviewed by DEXTER FILKINS This crushing critique of the war in Afghanistan goes a long way toward explaining why America's embrace of counterinsurgency strategy has not delivered its promised success. ADVERTISEMENT Also in the Book ReviewBy ANDRE DUBUS III
Reviewed by DARCEY STEINKE Andre Dubus III recalls his upbringing in a Massachusetts mill town, and the tormentors he and his siblings had to fight through. Reviewed by THOMAS MALLON The letters of the travel writer Bruce Chatwin provide sharp renderings of misadventure and mores. By ALISON ESPACH
Reviewed by ALEX KUCZYNSKI As this first novel's 14-year-old narrator looks on, her affluent suburban family disintegrates. By DONALD BOGLE
Reviewed by DAVID HAJDU A historian of African-American entertainment seeks to rehabilitate the image of the pioneering actress and singer Ethel Waters. By MICHAEL DAVID LUKAS
Reviewed by JAMES HYNES A young girl is swept up by the intrigue of the sultan's court in this novel of the late Ottoman Empire. By TEJU COLE
Reviewed by MIGUEL SYJUCO The peripatetic hero of Teju Cole's indelible novel reflects on his adopted New York, the Africa of his youth, today's America and a Europe wary of its future. By CHELSEA CAIN
Reviewed by ZOE SLUTZKY The serial killer Gretchen Lowell is locked up, but a new threat confounds Detective Archie Sheridan in Chelsea Cain's new thriller. By ALEX BERENSON
Reviewed by TODD PRUZAN With Saudi Arabia reeling after a series of terrorist attacks, Alex Berenson's reluctant hero is the kingdom's only hope. By SANDOR MARAI
Reviewed by LIESL SCHILLINGER In monologues set in Budapest, Rome and New York, Sandor Marai's characters explore a decades-old love triangle. By KEVIN BROCKMEIER
Reviewed by SCOTT HUTCHINS All across this deeply felt novel's world, human pain has been made literally visible. By PARAG KHANNA
Reviewed by STEPHANIE GIRY Parag Khanna offers a chaotic view of power in the 21st century. By JONAS HASSEN KHEMIRI
Reviewed by ANDER MONSON Jonas Hassen Khemiri's novel is told in two voices, a generation and the distance from Tunisia to Sweden separating them. By SUSAN JACOBY
Reviewed by TED C. FISHMAN Susan Jacoby challenges the optimistic marketing that has made old age seem pleasant and carefree. By HELEN CASTOR
Reviewed by MIRANDA SEYMOUR Helen Castor examines the lives of four plucky royal consorts who struggled over the throne of England. By SOLOMON VOLKOV
Reviewed by JENNIFER HOMANS In Solomon Volkov's telling, the Romanovs nurtured and sustained Russia's great creative minds. By DANIEL J. SHARFSTEIN
Reviewed by RAYMOND ARSENAULT A history of how three African-American families of mixed ancestry stopped being black. Reviewed by STEVE COATES A newly annotated edition of "The Campaigns of Alexander," by the second-century Greek historian Arrian. ADVERTISEMENT | 
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