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The Wasp Eater, a novel by William Lychack (Houghton Mifflin): The scope of Lychack’s short novel—his debut book—is deceptively small. In 1979, a ten-year-old boy named Daniel in Connecticut is caught between his estranged parents. His father, a former marine with a "sweepstakes smile and sly charm" who works as a window washer, is booted…
George Garrett recommends The Stone That the Builder Refused, a novel by Madison Smartt Bell: "The magnificent final volume of Bell’s Haitian trilogy about the only successful slave revolution in history. Epic in scope, yet grounded and richly detailed, this huge work is a masterpiece." (Pantheon)
Robert Pinsky, An Invitation to Poetry, anthology: Pinsky and co-editor Maggie Dietz’s compelling compilation of poems is accompanied by quotations from Favorite Poem Project participants, along with a DVD. (Norton)
Citizen, poems by Andrew Feld (Perennial): Elegant, frank, and wise, the poems in Andrew Feld’s first book initially appear composed; yet, within each is a narrative that, in its unfolding, becomes dangerous in its revelation. This is a book of journeys, literal and figurative, as Feld transverses an earlier American landscape menaced by encroaching civilization,…
Madison Smartt Bell, The Stone That the Builder Refused, a novel: Bell gives us the final, climactic novel in his glorious trilogy about Toussaint Louverture. (Pantheon)
Christopher Tilghman, Roads of the Heart, a novel: In Tilghman’s generous and powerful novel, a man and his father—a former Maryland senator—journey on the road and discover the resilient truths of their family. (Random)
Animal Crackers, stories by Hannah Tinti (Dial): "You hear animal stories every day," one of Hannah Tinti’s charming characters declares, "how a bee stung little Johnny and he went into cardiac arrest. How a snake bit Cousin Tom and it shriveled up his toe . . . These stories are supposed to give warning." Her…
Mary Gordon recommends Ideas of Heaven, stories by Joan Silber: "This original, finely wrought collection deals with spiritual issues, always with a combination of grace and lightness." (Norton)
Richard Tillinghast, Poetry and What Is Real, essays: Sure to be a seminal work, Tillinghast’s engaging book discusses British and American modernists such as Yeats and Auden and neglected masters like John Crowe Ransom. (Michigan)
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