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Q&A with the "Prisoners: A Muslim & a Jew Across the Middle East Divide" author.

A definitive buyer’s guide to the just-published shelf.

His new follow-up, A Spot of Bother, follows a surprisingly ordinary father, George, sent into a panic by a patch of eczema he’s convinced is terminal cancer.

The author of the new novel The Keep on five books in her library that have influenced her�and why Henry James is so hard to read in New York.

Nora Ephron on midlife, postfeminism, and the work she’s had done.

Our books buzz and backlash report.

Still looking for a summer book that isn’t 100 percent trashy? Perhaps even one that’s 100 percent non-trashy (say, on Spinoza)? Here are five new(ish) titles that we’re particularly enthused about.

Advance praise finds its way to book jackets in many ways�some meticulously planned, some random�but mostly, as an executive at HarperCollins admits, �it’s logrolling, pure and simple.�

After law school, David Feige turned down Dewey Ballantine for a $29,500 public-defender job representing indigent clients who faced everything from trespassing misdemeanors to murder charges. Now he’s written Indefensible, a book that makes the Bronx Criminal Court look like Kafka’s Castle.

Q&A with the sometime war correspondent and new fiction writer.