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Notable Books

This list has been selected from books reviewed since the Holiday Books issue of December 2001. It is meant to suggest some of the high points in this years fiction and poetry, nonfiction, childrens books, mysteries and science fiction. The books are arranged alphabetically under genre headings. The complete reviews of these books may be found at nytimes.com/books. FICTION & POETRY ACCIDENTS IN THE HOME. By Tessa Hadley. (Holt, $23.) The link between reading and adultery, refined and elaborated since Flaubert, governs affairs in this rewarding, concentrated first novel about a voraciously literate 29-year-old Englishwoman and her family and her glamorous childhood friend (and the friends boyfriend, who may be no reader at all). THE ADVENTURES OF MILES AND ISABEL. By Tom Gilling. (Atlantic Monthly, $23.) A beguiling novel that celebrates a young 19th-century Australian who thinks he can build a flying machine; his opposite number, Isabel, is fairly skeptical about flight but not about love, and both of them are suckers for a good supply of dreams. AFTER NATURE. By W. G. Sebald. (Random House, $21.95.) A book-length poem in which the painter Matthias Grünewald, the naturalist Georg Steller and the author himself inhabit a meditation on the sources of the catastrophic imagination, the continuities between nature and human nature, and issues of coming into being and passing away. AFTER THE QUAKE: Stories. By Haruki Murakami. (Knopf, $21.) The six stories in this slim collection about the emotional aftershocks of the 1995 earthquake in Kobe, which killed more than 4,000 people and left nearly 300,000 homeless, are apt to resonate eerily in an American readers inner ear, though they were all written before Sept. 11. AGAPE AGAPE. By William Gaddis. (Viking, $23.95.) The first word in the title of this brilliant posthumous not-really-a-novel has three syllables and refers to love in and of the creation; the book is a kind of farewell summa or parting meditation on life, death and the player piano, seen as a mechanical forerunner of digital computing. AT SWIM, TWO BOYS. By Jamie ONeill. (Scribner, $28.) Two great causes -- free Ireland and a free gay nation -- coincide in this polished but energetic novel built on the hazards of love, heroism, history and tenderness, and placed in political and moral history by the Easter Rising of 1916. THE AUTOGRAPH MAN. By Zadie Smith. (Random House, $24.95.) Smiths entertaining second novel studiously avoids the glorious excesses of her first, White Teeth, offering instead a lone protagonist (a half-Jewish, half-Chinese autograph trader from North London) and a single quest narrative (a journey to New York in search of a reclusive 1950s starlet). BAUDOLINO. By Umberto Eco. (Harcourt, $27.) Ecos Bildungsroman, set in the Middle Ages, includes some of the authors familiar obsessions -- forged manuscripts, fake relics -- and features several bizarre episodes and characters of impeccably historical origin. BEDLAM BURNING. By Geoff Nicholson. (Overlook, $26.95.) A lively novel involving madness, false identities and the nature of authorship (Nicholsons 13th novel; he should know). Its narrator, a handsome chap, agrees to impersonate his friend, a weedy novelist, and winds up in a lunatic asylum. BE MY KNIFE. By David Grossman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) A brilliant concoction by an outstanding Israeli novelist whose hero, a 33-year-old married man, persuades a woman to undertake a brutally honest love affair to be carried on, in a political and physical vacuum, entirely by correspondence. BET YOUR LIFE. By Richard Dooling. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) A forceful novel by a writer and lawyer based in Omaha, who leaves room for ideas as well as characters and action as two men and a woman, all insurance investigators, crusade against so-called viatical policies, in which fatally ill people, strapped for cash, sell their policies at deep discounts. BIG IF. By Mark Costello. (Norton, $24.95.) A novel offers an anthropological look at the occupational rituals and argot of a group of Secret Service agents, who are in fact simply stressed-out working stiffs just like us, with the small difference that they are also charged with the continued well-being of the vice president. BLESSINGS. By Anna Quindlen. (Random House, $24.95.) In this persuasive and gently humorous novel, the discovery of a newborn baby girl left in a cardboard box creates opportunities for redemption and renewal for the handyman who finds her and for the dowager on whose estate she was abandoned. THE BOOK OF ILLUSIONS. By Paul Auster. (Holt, $24.) Metaphysics and mystery run free in this novel so full of levels that A narrates B narrating C narrating his own story, which is in a movie; the plot concerns a missing silent film comedian who has gone unmissing and a movie scholar who pursues him. BY THE LAKE. By John McGahern. (Knopf, $24.) The sixth novel in 40 years of careful, lapidary production by this elegant Irish writer concerns the passage of a year in an unnamed Irish village, a couple who have returned to it and a community for which the biggest event of the entire year is the arrival of a telephone pole. THE CADENCE OF GRASS. By Thomas McGuane. (Knopf, $24.) McGuanes first novel in 10 years shows, as his work in the 1970s did, people responding with comically awful behavior to a hostile but also zany universe; there is a plot, concerning some kind of infernal legacy, but the digressions the author can never resist are, fortunately, deft and funny no matter how irrelevant or inconsequential. CAMOUFLAGE: Stories. By Murray Bail. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $20.) Fourteen stories by an Australian who invests his space in satire, not character; in one story people hold races on the partitions of their office cubicles, while in another a conceptual artist offers to document the existence of everyone alive. CARAMELO. By Sandra Cisneros. (Knopf, $24.) A cheerful, fizzy novel whose heroine and narrator joins her large Mexican-American family in driving from Chicago to Mexico City and back every summer; colorful generalizations abound concerning the borders of language and culture that they cross when they must. THE CAVE. By José Saramago. (Harcourt, $25.) The cave in mind is Platos, where shadows pass for realities; the characters in Saramagos latest novel live in a complex where they work, shop and enjoy simulated experiences, victims not just of global capitalism but of their own eagerness to go along. CENTURYS SON. By Robert Boswell. (Knopf, $24.) The world rolls on in recrimination and mourning in this novel of four generations, the first represented by a Russian dissident full of falsehoods, the second an unhappy couple, the third an adolescent suicide and a 15-year-old mother. CHILD OF MY HEART. By Alice McDermott. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $23.) In East Hampton, sometime in the early 1960s, the teenage narrator of McDermotts novel concentrates on a few summer days and a lot of baby-sitting; a growing awareness of the adult world and its risks is foreshadowed rather than understood or displayed. A CHILDS BOOK OF TRUE CRIME. By Chloe Hooper. (Scribner, $24.) An ambitious first novel by an Australian, in which an adulterous affair between a schoolteacher and a students father runs parallel to an affair that ended in murder 20 years earlier. There is cause to be ill at ease, since the wronged wife in affair No. 1 has just published a book about affair No. 2. THE COLLECTED STORIES. By Clare Boylan. (Counterpoint, paper, $16.50.) A fascination with things strange but true drives Boylans shrewd plots; her settings range from the early Victorian period to Margaret Thatchers Britain, but she is most at home among the working-class Irish of the 1960s and 70s. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF ISAAC BABEL. Edited by Nathalie Babel. (Norton, $39.95.) The total product of the marvelous writer who tried to create a synthesis of the Russian, the Jewish, the literary and the revolutionary, a mix that bestowed life on his fiction but could not save him from death on Stalins orders in 1940. THE CRAZED. By Ha Jin. (Pantheon, $24.) A devoted student tries to untangle the stroke-induced ravings of his teacher in the months before the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in a novel that gently underlines the hardships endured in contemporary China. The Crimson Petal and the White. By Michel Faber. (Harcourt, $26.) A 19-year-old prostitute is the central character of this novel in which an empty and befouled late Victorian world is successfully confronted by nothing more than wit, determination and a good heart. The narrator, our educator and guide, examines the inner thoughts of the books inhabitants until we learn to understand them for ourselves. CROW LAKE. By Mary Lawson. (Dial, $23.95.) This ambitious first novel combines two standard motifs -- sudden orphanhood and rescue by an inspiring schoolteacher -- in an exploration of class and sibling rivalry, ennui and persistence, especially in the character of Kate Morrison, who rises against tall odds to an academic career she actually has little heart for. DARLINGTONS FALL: A Novel in Verse. By Brad Leithauser. (Knopf, $25.) A 5,700-line verse novel (10-line stanzas, irregularly rhymed) that invokes the butterfly effect of chaos mathematics: a butterflys random passage starts Russel Darlington on the road to a career in lepidopterology; many years later, a second butterfly lures him to fall from a cliff, crippling him permanently. THE DARTS OF CUPID: And Other Stories. By Edith Templeton. (Pantheon, $23.) The minutely observed social transactions and discriminating aperçus in these stories by a writer who is now 85 are set in train by a kind of erotic attraction that the clinically minded would not hesitate to call sadomasochism. THE DEAD CIRCUS. By John Kaye. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) Kayes propensity for desolation governs this novel of a polluted Hollywood, where Gene Burk, a private investigator, pursues the death of a rockabilly star in a case that eventually leads through Burks dead sweetheart to a lover of Charles Manson. DECEMBER 6. By Martin Cruz Smith. (Simon & Schuster, $26.) The picaresque hero of Cruzs thriller, an American wheeler-dealer living in Tokyo on the eve of Pearl Harbor, uses his Zelig-like abilities in an effort to thwart Japans war plans. DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS. By Bharati Mukherjee. (Theia/Hyperion, $24.95.) In this shrewd, intellectual novel, an Americanized Bengali woman in San Francisco is forced to reckon at length with the culture she has cast aside when a man says he is the illegitimate son of her sister in New York. THE DIVE FROM CLAUSENS PIER. By Ann Packer. (Knopf, $24.) Many a young person has come to New York for a restart; the narrator of this beguiling first novel, which is much concerned with the particularities of place and conduct, does it after a nitwit move by her fiancé in Wisconsin renders him quadriplegic. THE DOCTORS HOUSE. By Ann Beattie. (Scribner, $24.) Does less of minimalism mean more of something else? Beatties novel explores at considerable length, in a prose that owes much to the language of therapy, a fraught relationship between a 40-ish woman whose husband is dead and her brother, a flagrant womanizer. THE EMPEROR OF OCEAN PARK. By Stephen L. Carter. (Knopf, $26.95.) This debut novel by a Yale legal scholar centers on a dynastic black family, whose patriarch, forced to withdraw from consideration for the Supreme Court, has died (and, it appears, also lived) amid mysterious circumstances and rattling skeletons. ENEMY WOMEN. By Paulette Jiles. (Morrow, $24.95.) Love crosses the lines in this Civil War novel set in dubious Missouri, where an 18-year-old spitfire of rebel attachments is the prisoner of a Union officer whose interrogation of her turns into a prison romance. EVAS COUSIN. By Sibylle Knauss. (Ballantine, $24.95.) A German novel based on facts about a cousin of Hitlers mistress, Eva Braun; Marlene, the protagonist and narrator, is called to keep Eva company in the fateful summer of 1944, and is soon observing the wars end from a lonely, weirdly endangered position. EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED. By Jonathan Safran Foer. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) Alex, a Ukrainian lad whose love for everything American has infected his speech with an amazing thesaurus of near-miss English, narrates this novel about himself and Jonathan Safran Foer, who is visiting ancestral territory and working on a novel about a Ukrainian town where dozens of worthy themes usefully congregate. FAIR WARNING. By Robert Olen Butler. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) This witty, airy novel fuses comedy of manners and of philosophy, realized in the life of a fine-arts auctioneer whose presentations, orgasmic necessities for her, are sheer performance, aimed at the cupidity and insecurity of her audiences. FAMILY MATTERS. By Rohinton Mistry. (Knopf, $26.) Somebody has to care for a dying Parsi patriarch in Mistrys third novel, but the mans descendants are not up to it; maybe, the book suggests, family isnt what it used to be. The same seems true of Bombay, where this goes on against a background of social decay. FEMALE TROUBLE: A Collection of Short Stories. By Antonya Nelson. (Scribner, $24.) Nelsons fourth collection, written in clear, muscular prose that endures depression, deals chiefly with distraught women in the act of returning somewhere, often to a childhood home, looking for a second chance. FINGERSMITH. By Sarah Waters. (Riverhead, $25.95.) A fine Gothic ear is part of Waterss kit in this neo-Dickensian tale of a baby farmer and a foundling who is drawn into a fearful sexual intimacy as part of a scheme to defraud an heiress. FRAGRANT HARBOR. By John Lanchester. (Marian Wood/Putnam, $25.95.) A novel of large scope, placed chiefly in Hong Kong in 1935 and after, undertaking big propositions: race, class, love, war and, perhaps most successfully, the transformation of a refugee community into one of the worlds richest societies. THE GOOD REMAINS. By Nani Power. (Grove, $24.) A fictional elegy for Ashland, Va., where a large cast of characters, brimming with life and goofiness, approaches the Christmas holiday; the central character, a baby doctor who dreams of ham and of the good old days, fails at actually cooking a ham. GOULDS BOOK OF FISH: A Novel in Twelve Fish. By Richard Flanagan. (Grove, $27.50.) Phantasmagoric energy propels this novel of Tasmanian wonders and horrors whose hero is based on an English convict, the author of a book on the local fish, who died trying to escape from a penal colony in 1831; the original Goulds illustrations appear. GREAT DREAM OF HEAVEN: Stories. By Sam Shepard. (Knopf, $20.) Shepards heaven is comfortably earthbound and can amount to no more than a painless life, as it does in this collections title story about two old men whose daily pleasure it is to put on their Stetsons and walk to lunch at a Dennys somewhere near the Mojave. HALF IN LOVE: Stories. By Maile Meloy. (Scribner, $23.) Fourteen stories, set mostly in the authors native Montana, among small-time racetracks and failed oil wells, where brides choose wedding dresses to hide branding-iron scars; no one expects an easy life here, and even the young feel their choices constrained by economics and losing habits. HAZMAT: Poems. By J. D. McClatchy. (Knopf, $23.) Another collection by a poet who carries forward the strict, literate, exact tradition of Auden and James Merrill, but with a physical focus on bodily organs and products that preserves his fluency, exotic settings and intricate forms from aestheticism. THE HEART OF REDNESS. By Zakes Mda. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.) A novel encompassing a black South Africans critique of the cult of the new, presented as the combat between the forces of progress and those of tradition, all reflected from a defining religious schism in the Xhosa nation back in 1856-57. THE HORNED MAN. By James Lasdun. (Norton, $24.95.) A psychological thriller that explores the interior motions of self-policing; the narrator, a dedicated member of his colleges sexual harassment committee, finds that sexual desire has become bureaucratic maneuvering and dreads the escape of his thought-crimes into real-life action. THE HOUSE OF BLUE MANGOES. By David Davidar. (HarperCollins, $26.95.) A polished first novel by the C.E.O. of Penguin India, the book tracks three generations of the Dorais, a Christian family from the south of India, across the first half of the 20th century, ending just before independence. HOUSE OF WOMEN. By Lynn Freed. (Little, Brown, $23.95.) Fairy-tale elements prevail in this novel in which a mother and a daughter fight to the death; Nalia, an opera singer and Holocaust survivor, reigns over Thea, who is quasi-abducted by a Bluebeardish Syrian in a narrative full of dream logic, psychoanalysis and the writing of journals for others to read. THE IDEA OF PERFECTION. By Kate Grenville. (Viking, $24.95.) Two forlorn, wearied souls -- a shy engineer who fears heights and a rough, gruff textile artist and curator with three husbands behind her -- are exposed to each other in a small town in Australia, a burg so countrified they have only themselves to relate to. I DONT KNOW HOW SHE DOES IT: The Life of Kate Reddy, Working Mother. By Allison Pearson. (Knopf, $23.) The beleaguered heroine of this novel, a 35-year-old hedge fund manager in London, struggles madly with the world she has made, containing children, husband, work and worry, under high pressure. IGNORANCE. By Milan Kundera. (HarperCollins, $23.95.) Variations on some of the authors usual themes -- betrayal and lost love, memory and forgetting, exile and return -- in a novel whose heroine returns to Prague after 20 years to find that her old friends have no use for her émigré life and no longer talk of victimization but of bourgeois success. ILL TAKE YOU THERE. By Joyce Carol Oates. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $25.95.) The nameless narrator of this daring novel (Oatess 38th) is a philosophy student out to disown her dysfunctional past by affixing herself to others and adopting their identities: first a group of sorority sisters and later a gifted black graduate student. INTERESTING WOMEN: Stories. By Andrea Lee. (Random House, $22.95.) A lush collection of beautifully textured fiction, set mostly in Italy, where the author lives, and featuring American expatriate beauties, many of them black, in situations that are concerned with multiple ways of being foreign -- even in your own home, country or marriage. IN THE FOREST. By Edna OBrien. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) Though not wholly lacking in the adulterous impulse so fundamental to the characters in OBriens powerful evocations of Irish reality in the past, the principals in this novel are concerned with murder, madness and innocence in the backwoods of their island. IN THE HAND OF DANTE. By Nick Tosches. (Little, Brown, $24.95.) A novel in which Tosches first characterizes Dante as a good guy and great poet, then turns to the 21st century and a band of New York mobsters who have stolen the original manuscript of The Divine Comedy; they call upon a character named Tosches to authenticate the document. JULY, JULY. By Tim OBrien. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) A 30th-anniversary reunion (belated) of the college class of 1969 draws together enough baby boomers in OBriens novel to account for the tumultuous sweep of history since their graduation. JUST LIKE BEAUTY. By Lisa Lerner. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.) A captivating first novel that takes a surreal look at the buildup to a beauty pageant and a 14-year-old narrators struggle to break free of its spell. THE KEEPERS OF TRUTH. By Michael Collins. (Scribner, paper, $13.) A sharp, wry novel on the pitfalls and pleasures of American society, featuring a down-to-earth narrator from a seen-better-days city, and a mysterious disappearance; a finalist for Britains Booker Prize in 2000. THE LAST DREAM-O-RAMA: The Cars Detroit Forgot to Build, 1950-1960. By Bruce McCall. (Crown, $25.) A clever assortment of dream-car caricatures (a family car with a retractable patio, a Vegastar with a slot-machine gearshift, for example) forms this satirical glimpse at 1950s style, marked, in McCalls opinion, by fatuousness, bad taste and shameless excess. THE LAYING ON OF HANDS: Stories. By Alan Bennett. (Picador USA, $15.) Formerly known as one-quarter of the British comedy group Beyond the Fringe, Bennett serves up a volume of just three stories, all tender, caustic gems about lonely people, most in professions at once earnest and comic (podiatrists, masseurs, vicars). LIFE OF PI. By Yann Martel. (Harcourt, $25.) A high-seas adventure tale with a large dose of allegory, in which Pi Patel, a teenage Indian boy, and a 450-pound tiger named Richard Parker become the only survivors of a shipwreck that swallowed a private zoo belonging to Pis family. LIMBO, AND OTHER PLACES I HAVE LIVED: Stories. By Lily Tuck. (HarperCollins, $22.95.) There is a distance at the heart of Tucks collection of short stories about women searching for themselves: a woman fears becoming unrecognizable to her own family, husbands and wives drift apart in their intimacy. Exotic locations underscore the unity of Tucks tone. THE LITTLE FRIEND. By Donna Tartt. (Knopf, $26.) This lush novel about a Mississippi family at the end of a long decline into middle-class normalcy opens with a grisly murder -- a 9-year-old boy found hanging from a tupelo tree on Mothers Day -- and follows a strong-willed young heroines crusade to seek out the people who killed her brother. THE LOST GARDEN. By Helen Humphreys. (Norton, $23.95.) In this authors third novel, an awkward horticultural researcher of 35 leaves a blitzed London for the country to organize young women to grow food; there she expands horizontally in new acquaintances and vertically in some symbolically attractive gardens planted before 1914. THE LOVELY BONES. By Alice Sebold. (Little, Brown, $21.95.) An accomplished first novel chronicling the aftermath of a girls abduction and murder -- narrated by the victim, 14-year-old Susie Salmon; the bones that give the book its title belong not to Susie but to the inspiring connections that are forged after her death. MALAISE. By Nancy Lemann. (Scribner, $24.) The authors fourth novel concerns the transplantation of Fleming Ford, a Southern woman, and her two small children into a California city where, for a while, old complaints about vapidity and sloth seem bright and new; but whats really at stake for Fleming is honoring her commitments and keeping her promises. Refreshing. MARY GEORGE OF ALLNORTHOVER. By Lavinia Greenlaw. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A finely constructed first novel that unveils another eccentric from rural England: Mary George, a socially clumsy yet plucky teenage dreamer who overcomes obstacles (many of which she is oblivious of) by ignoring them. THE METAL SHREDDERS. By Nancy Zafris. (BlueHen/Penguin Putnam, $24.95.) An entertaining, illuminating novel whose lead characters, a third-generation scrap dealer and his Wellesley graduate sister, struggle to run a business they do not love while observed by a father who shows no sign of loving them. ME TIMES THREE. By Alex Witchel. (Knopf, $22.) A funny, if episodic, first novel, about the coming of age in the late 1980s of a 26-year-old fashion editor, her lovable but dense fiancé, who is engaged to two other girls besides, and her best friend, a gay man with AIDS; by a style writer for The Times. MIND CATCHER. By John Darnton. (Dutton, $25.95.) A cybernetic-anthropological thriller by the cultural news editor of The Times, in which two hubristic scientists attempt to connect a 13-year-old boy to a computer, thus combining human intelligence and computer speed. THE MIRACLE. By John LHeureux. (Atlantic Monthly, $24.) A thoughtful novel in which a popular young Roman Catholic priest, transferred to the sticks for being too mod, sees a mothers prayer raise her daughter from the dead; in this he eventually sees the ancient truth that love can restore, renew and revive. THE MONK DOWNSTAIRS. By Tim Farrington. (HarperSanFrancisco, $22.95.) A tender, witty novel in which a former monk, after 20 years in his order, rents an apartment from a 38-year-old single mother; the ensuing relationship proceeds cautiously, taking account of the prudence required of struggling people who arent going to get that many more chances. MORAL HAZARD. By Kate Jennings. (Fourth Estate, $21.95.) A business novel whose modest pace and poetic structure distinguish it from the traditional macho product, packed with hard fact and action; Jenningss purpose is ethical investigation and meditation on the perilous, jerry-built global financial markets. A MULTITUDE OF SINS: Stories. By Richard Ford. (Knopf, $25.) Quite a few wrongs are done in these elegantly worded stories, although what prevails is generally adultery, often at the end of an affair or later, when its too late to throw those dice again. The Navigator of New York. By Wayne Johnston. (Doubleday, $27.95.) A bold novel centered on the competition between Robert E. Peary and Dr. Frederick A. Cook to be recognized as first man at the North Pole; to real life Johnston adds the fictional Devlin Stead, through whom we sense the engrossing white waste of the polar North and the flaws of its would-be heroes. THE NERVE. By Glyn Maxwell. (Houghton Mifflin, $22.) A collection of largely low-key poems by an intelligent, sensitive writer, moving confidently toward expressions of common feeling in a voice conversational or false-naïve, always sounding within earshot of the English lyric tradition. NEW AND COLLECTED POEMS: 1931-2001. By Czeslaw Milosz. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $45.) In the winter of his 70-year career, Milosz appears to be locked in insoluble argument with himself: where he once credited poetry with the power to rescue mankind from the void, he now demurs, maintaining that language is inadequate to the task of capturing verity. NINE HORSES: Poems. By Billy Collins. (Random House, $21.95.) The current national poet laureate, who produced these verses, is often able to proceed unburdened by many of the tools -- assonance, alliteration, wordplay, complex metrics -- that hang from the poets belt; he makes his way in the world by being funny. NOBLE NORFLEET. By Reynolds Price. (Scribner, $26.) What distinguishes the hero and title character of Prices novel is a sordid familiarity with death (his younger siblings were killed in their sleep by their mother) and sex (one proclivity in particular drives away the women willing to love him). NO SAINTS OR ANGELS. By Ivan Klima. (Grove, $24.) The personal and the political are inseparable in Klimas newest novel, in which a Prague dentist, daughter of a zealous bureaucrat of the former regime, determines that the hate mail she has been receiving originates with a half brother previously unknown to her. NOTHING THAT MEETS THE EYE: The Uncollected Stories of Patricia Highsmith. By Patricia Highsmith. (Norton, $27.95.) A collection of 28 of Highsmiths previously unanthologized suspense stories, written mostly in the late 1940s and early 50s. NO WAY TO TREAT A FIRST LADY. By Christopher Buckley. (Random House, $24.95.) Buckleys sendup of political sex scandals in the age of constant media takes the form of a legal thriller; accused of assassinating her wayward husband, the first lady denies having done it, but whatever she did is secondary to the heroic proportions of the trial that ensues. OXYGEN. By Andrew Miller. (Harcourt, $24.) In this unusually artful novel, the author, who never really hides his presence, combines two stories that are long and curious in their discovery of each other: one about an Englishwoman with a terminal cancer and her two sons, and another concerning a gay Hungarian playwright who is burdened by regret for his actions during the revolution of 1956. PALLADIO. By Jonathan Dee. (Doubleday, $24.95.) Dee, a courageous novelist of ideas, takes on morals, lost love and the art of selling in this story about a beautiful (and passive) woman and two advertising executives who differ about the power of the viewer over the thing viewed. PARADISE ALLEY. By Kevin Baker. (HarperCollins, $26.95.) A scary, convincing novel steeped in historical fact and set in the New York City of July 1863, when 119 died in three days of rioting against the draft, chiefly by Irish immigrants who feared losing their jobs to the slaves they were being called on to free. THE PIANO TUNER. By Daniel Mason. (Knopf, $24.) A first novel whose alert, responsive, confused, generous hero is a London piano tuner, selected by the War Office in 1886 to trek into the backest beyond of Burma to service the piano of a (possibly mad) British surgeon and proconsul. THE PICKUP. By Nadine Gordimer. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.) A chance meeting between a rich, white, South African woman and an immigrant from a Muslim country turns into a love affair that suggests two cultures in quest of each other and the uses of mutual incomprehension for mutual attraction. POEMS SEVEN: New and Complete Poetry. By Alan Dugan. (Seven Stories, $35.) A big volume by a major poet (it won a National Book Award last year) whose life work is adult matter, full of conviction, void of poses; its great theme is human pettiness exposed yet dignified by mortality. POLAR. By T. R. Pearson. (Viking, $24.95.) A quietly unsettling, darkly satirical Southern novel, whose hero, an old rural Virginia reprobate, inexplicably acquires oracular familiarity with the Antarctic and knowledge about a little girls unsolved disappearance. PRAGUE. By Arthur Phillips. (Random House, $24.95.) A first novel set in 1990, far beyond the recently fallen Berlin Wall, where young Americans reveal themselves not as travelers but mere tourists, detached from their surroundings, weightless and immaterial among time-battered buildings and people who have survived wars and uprisings. RAPTURE. By Susan Minot. (Knopf, $18.) The action of this brief novel is a single act of oral sex, but its life is found in memories of a doomed affair and the thoughts of Kay and Benjamin, its partners; they know each other well, but not what is happening between them. THE REAL McCOY. By Darin Strauss. (Dutton, $24.95.) An ambitious, thought-infested novel placed at the turn of the last century, in which a boxer who is also a confidence man helps America round the corner to a new world of mass communications, celebrity, product endorsement and the makeover. THE RETURN OF THE CARAVELS. By António Lobo Antunes. (Grove, $24.) Portugals history as an imperial power literally comes home in this novel of collective memory set in 1974; Vasco da Gama, Cabral and Francis Xavier are back in Lisbon, raising hell and anchoring their puny vessels alongside tankers. REVERSIBLE ERRORS. By Scott Turow. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $28.) Kindle County surges to life again in Turows richly characterized thriller, which revolves around a reluctant pro bono lawyers efforts to overturn a black mans murder conviction, despite his confession, and free him from death row. THE ROTTERS CLUB. By Jonathan Coe. (Knopf, $24.95.) A fictional British panorama of the early stages of the transformation wrought on Britain by Margaret Thatcher (another volume is to come); its central figures, not quite finished, are chiefly university-bound students at a school in Birmingham. THE RUSSIAN DEBUTANTES HANDBOOK. By Gary Shteyngart. (Riverhead, $24.95.) An energetic, ambitious first novel whose protagonist, a Russian-born graduate of an American college, tries to figure out what it means to be an American, a Russian, an immigrant, a Jew; a great deal of splendid comedy hangs on his inability to find out. THE SEAL WIFE. By Kathryn Harrison. (Random House, $23.95.) In this thickly atmospheric novel, set in 1915 Alaska, Harrison characteristically combines love and suffering, vulnerability and dominance, in a sexual affair between a young weather scientist and an Aleutian woman who almost never speaks. SEARCHING FOR INTRUDERS: A Novel in Stories. By Stephen Raleigh Byler. (Morrow, $23.95.) Some confident, ruefully funny pieces in a mode (one far from exhausted, as Byler shows) established by Raymond Carver and Richard Ford, exploring what might be called post-postmacho manhood. the season of lillian dawes. By Katherine Mosby. (HarperCollins, $24.95.) Nothing can prepare even upper-crust New York for the arrival of the title character, who is, alphabetically, Francophone, horsewoman, markswoman, naturalist, painter, psychologist, scholar, tango dancer and -- zounds! -- attractive to boot. THE SECRET. By Eva Hoffman. (PublicAffairs, $25.) A notable memoirist and critic of consistent sensitivity and broad erudition turns to fiction in this novel whose protagonist is the single daughter of a single parent, living in the Midwest some 25 years in the future; cracking the secrets of her birth sends her questing for the meaning of her life. SEEK MY FACE. By John Updike. (Knopf, $23.) Updike mixes art history with fiction in a story, recollected later by its heros widow, of how in the decade after World War II American artists, led by Jackson Pollock (here called Zack McCoy), seized power from Europe and made New York the center of the art world. SELECTED POEMS, 1957-1994. By Ted Hughes. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, cloth, $35; paper, $15.) With poems that are characteristically alert to the processes of creation as well as self-destruction, this selection displays Hughess mighty, even terrifying, talent. SERVANTS OF THE MAP: Stories. By Andrea Barrett. (Norton, $24.95.) A collection of stories complete in themselves but linked by threads of association or neighborhood or interest or family into a kind of imaginative collaboration that covers most of the last two centuries, always inhabited by characters who share a passionate interest in figuring out how things work. THE SEVEN SISTERS. By Margaret Drabble. (Harcourt, $25.) A novelist whose work has considered primarily the issues of her own generation now employs a protagonist in her 60s who begins a new life, estranged from husband and daughters, undertaking a voyage in the wake of Virgils Aeneas from Carthage to Naples. THE SHELL COLLECTOR: Stories. By Anthony Doerr. (Scribner, $23.) Hunting and being hunted, holding on and letting go are the themes that govern this skillful first collection, inhabited by people apt to fall in love with a magicians assistant or run away with a metal eater from a traveling carnival. THE SIEGE. By Helen Dunmore. (Grove, $24.) A powerful, well-researched novel (Dunmores seventh) that follows a young woman and her family during the siege of Leningrad in 1941. A SIMPLE HABANA MELODY: (From When the World Was Good). By Oscar Hijuelos. (HarperCollins, $24.95.) The protagonist of Hijueloss sixth novel is a Cuban composer so decorous his cross is an inability to act on, or even articulate, his deepest passions, accumulating a lifetime of repression and regret. SIN KILLER: The Berrybender Narratives, Book 1. By Larry McMurtry. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) This irresistible tale, the first of a planned tetralogy, full of blood, blunder and myth, follows the fate of an upper-crust British family that attempts to explore the Western frontier (circa 1830) with a huge traveling ménage. SLOAN-KETTERING: Poems. By Abba Kovner. (Schocken, $17.) A final collection, now translated into English, by the Israeli poet and partisan (1918-87) who organized and led the Vilna ghetto uprising in World War II; at the end of his life, he chronicles his losing battle with cancer in a cycle dedicated to the struggle for existence, naming the collection after the New York cancer center where he was treated. SPIES. By Michael Frayn. (Metropolitan/Holt, $23.) The 10th novel by this master of the intellectual mystery masquerading as popular entertainment concerns a London suburb where, if memory serves the narrator, the phases of the moon govern events during World War II and an alleged spys conduct visibly contradicts the everyday space-time continuum. SPRING FLOWERS, SPRING FROST. By Ismail Kadare. (Arcade, $23.95.) A murky, capricious novel by an Albanian who lives in France; it deals with an Albania now open to the world in principle but still separated from everywhere else by its legends, hallucinations and fantasies, and by the return of the blood-feud code that Communism had suppressed. SPRINGING: New and Selected Poems. By Marie Ponsot. (Knopf, $25.) A love poet, a metaphysician and a formalist, Ponsot cultivates an eccentricity that allows her to make her moral points epigrammatically or on the sly; this is her fifth book of poems, the product of a long life and intelligent pruning. THE STORIES OF ALICE ADAMS. (Knopf, $30.) Fifty-three stories from four decades by a writer who died in 1999; apparently traditional in their omniscient third-person narration, they fill the space behind the scenes with imagination and implications about what people want and why it turns to ashes when they get it. THE STORY OF LUCY GAULT. By William Trevor. (Viking, $24.95.) National and private heartache suffuses this novel that begins with a dreadful mistake committed during the partition of Ireland, when an Anglo-Irish couple, falsely believing their child is dead, disappear untraceably, leaving the girl to a solitary life. THE STRENGTH OF THE SUN. By Catherine Chidgey. (Holt, $23.) A fascinating novel in which widely separated simultaneous events -- a girls disappearance, a scholars leaving his wife -- develop or discover connections in a sort of quantum-mechanics way that seems to explore the idea of connectedness itself. SUMMER IN BADEN-BADEN. By Leonid Tsypkin. (New Directions, $23.95.) An extraordinary novel by a Soviet Jewish doctor who died unpublished in 1982; its hero is Dostoyevsky, and its central enigma is the anti-Semitism of a great writer whose fiction is profoundly sensitive to human suffering and the pain of others, proclaiming the right to life and sunshine of every creature not Jewish. THE SWEETEST DREAM. By Doris Lessing. (HarperCollins, $26.95.) A novel, clearly autobiographical but far from self-invasive, omitting the authors involvements with psychology and mysticism in favor of a kind of fable that can contain Communism, personal freedom and the doing of good in southern Africa. TELL ME: 30 Stories. By Mary Robison. (Counterpoint, paper, $14.) Selected stories covering the past 25 years of Robisons career, with characters -- suburban and Midwestern for the most part -- who are often caught in brief unguarded moments that reveal a great deal about their lives. 10TH GRADE. By Joseph Weisberg. (Random House, $23.95.) A first novel, told in the voice and mentality of Jeremy Reskin, a high school sophomore whose perception is sometimes wasted on his ordinariness, but who renders well the supreme importance of social distinctions and the misery of teenage self-analysis. TEPPER ISNT GOING OUT. By Calvin Trillin. (Random House, $22.95.) A Manhattan driver, the hero of this novel, seeks the islands best parking spaces and occupies them, sitting and reading while the meter runs; his offhand concentration makes him a kind of Zen saint and leads to a struggle with a mayor whose rage for order suggests Rudolph W. Giuliani. THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: A Collection of Stories. By A. M. Homes. (HarperCollins, $23.95.) Short stories by an author sometimes accused of the gratuitous grotesque; but the strangeness she deploys is often in perfect balance with the heart of the character who displays it in little tragedies, wild aspirations and surprisingly warm satires of family life. THIS COLD COUNTRY. By Annabel Davis-Goff. (Harcourt, $25.) As a young war bride packed off to the country, this novels heroine faces her own battle on the home front against her new in-laws, members of the Anglo-Irish bourgeoisie whose insularity and creaking conventionalism portend genteel self-destruction. THREE JUNES. By Julia Glass. (Pantheon, $25.) Braiding together three summers (1989, 95 and 99), this debut novel explores the idea of emotional isolation as it moves, fittingly, across a series of islands -- off Scotland, Greece and the coast of New Jersey -- to chronicle a scattered, multigenerational Scottish family. TISHOMINGO BLUES. By Elmore Leonard. (Morrow, $25.95.) Leonards latest cinema-ready tale is riotously funny, featuring a high-diving protagonist in Tunica, Miss.; the rural Mafiosi who want him whacked; quixotic supporting characters aplenty; and a Civil War re-enactment of the less-than-epic Battle of Brices Cross Roads. TOURMALINE. By Joanna Scott. (Little, Brown, $23.95.) Reconstructing his fathers search for gems in the soil of Elba, the principal narrator of this novel of ideas discovers as well how the past is extracted from materials like gossip, superstition and marital distrust. THE TRANSLATOR. By John Crowley. (Morrow, $24.95.) A college students crush on a Soviet poet in the 1960s serves to support this novels fictional world full of conspiracy theories and paranoia but sustained with far nobler stuff: poetry, the souls of nations, the transforming power of language. TWELVE. By Nick McDonell. (Grove, $23.) This accomplished first novel by an 18-year-old tracks the dissolute behavior of some rich kids returning home for the Christmas holidays; its protagonist is a boy called White Mike, who gives up his subway seat to elderly women and neither smokes nor drinks; what he does is deal drugs, in company with characters whose lives converge at a single calamitous party. 2182 KHZ. By David Masiel. (Random House, $22.95.) A confidently anarchic first novel whose title refers to the international distress channel for mariners in trouble; most of it happens at sea off Alaska, and the chief victim of the happenings is a likable unfortunate who has spent a decade working the Arctic and becomes the only survivor of a disaster wrought by a captain who screams at his crew, Do Things! UNLESS. By Carol Shields. (Fourth Estate, $24.95.) The useful monotony of happiness is whats missing for Reta, a writer whose eldest daughter, Norah, has taken to sitting and begging on a downtown street corner; Retas response and the authors tone, measured and calm, are of greater interest than Norahs withdrawal itself. UNSUNG HEROES OF AMERICAN INDUSTRY: Stories. By Mark Jude Poirier. (Talk Miramax, $22.) A light pathos pervades this nimble collection of stories about men and women in dying industries (worm breeding, for example). THE VARIETIES OF ROMANTIC EXPERIENCE: Stories. By Robert Cohen. (Scribner, $23.) Cohens first collection of stories is as lyrical as it is economical, closely associating love and desire with existential confusion. VERSAILLES. By Kathryn Davis. (Houghton Mifflin, $21.) A reflective, mysterious novel about human development; it takes a souls-eye view of the life of Marie Antoinette from her marriage at 14 to the guillotine at 38; narrated by herself sometime after her death, when she has had a chance to think some about her earthly life and its contents. walk through darkness. By David Anthony Durham. (Doubleday, $23.95.) Odysseys run on two parallel tracks in this novel: that of a fugitive slave making his perilous way from Maryland to Philadelphia, and that of the dissolute Scotsman hired to track him down. WAVEMAKER II. By Mary-Beth Hughes. (Atlantic Monthly, $23.) The title of this politically imaginative first novel is the name of a boat belonging to Roy Cohn, who appears, impetuous and sentimental, human and controversial, at the top of a pyramid of enterprise supported, to his cost, by Will Clemens, a loyal young executive, and his loyal wife. THE WEATHER IN BERLIN. By Ward Just. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) In this novel by a skilled observer of Americas top people, a burned-out movie director of 64, visiting an arty institution in the reborn Berlin, finds himself brooding on the past to the disadvantage of the future, becoming a sort of spiritual and psychological German. WHEN THE EMPEROR WAS DIVINE. By Julie Otsuka. (Knopf, $18.) This muted first novel seeks to find and articulate what life really felt like to a family of Japanese-Americans relocated during World War II, and to convey the mood of our country under stress from the viewpoint of some genuinely oppressed people. THE WHORES CHILD: And Other Stories. By Richard Russo. (Knopf, $24.) In these short stories the author of Empire Falls, this years Pulitzer Prize novel, abandons working-class settings and protagonists in favor of intellectuals caught in late middle age, worried about illness and ambivalent about marriage. WIDE BLUE YONDER. By Jean Thompson. (Simon & Schuster, $24.) Happiness is permitted in this novel about a mother and her daughter who survive a hot summer in Springfield, Ill., despite the intrusions of troublesome characters; by the end, the mother has seen in the daughter her own power to be kind, insightful and brave. THE WINTER ZOO. By John Beckman. (Holt, $25.) The hero of this first novel, a young man newly arrived in Poland from Iowa, trades his naïveté for lessons in youthfulness; Beckman captures the rush of freshly liberated desires in post-Communist Europe, making his climactic scene a pansexual orgy in a Krakow hotel. WISH YOU WERE HERE. By Stewart ONan. (Grove, $25.) An equal-opportunity novel told from the perspectives of the members of three generations of the Maxwell family as they contemplate and develop the injuries and grudges of many years during a weeks vacation -- their last -- at their summer cottage in western New York. WITHOUT END: New and Selected Poems. By Adam Zagajewski. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) A new anthology by a poet who was a 1970s dissident in Poland, where words are weighted with history that takes them beyond their lexical meanings and things are frequently renamed; this volume contains three previous English collections, recent work and some new translations of earlier poems. YOU ARE NOT A STRANGER HERE. By Adam Haslett. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $21.95.) These nine short stories (Hasletts first collection) exhale a desiccated bleakness, a despair mitigated by the characters desire to be good, to do the right thing despite hopelessness, loss, disease and frequent mental illness. YOU SHALL KNOW OUR VELOCITY. By Dave Eggers. (McSweeneys, $22.) Eggerss first novel (son of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius) takes place in frantic motion as a pair of 27-year-old semi-slackers are projected by the violent death of their best friend into exploring all the world they can get to. NONFICTION THE AGE OF SACRED TERROR. By Daniel Benjamin and Steven Simon. (Random House, $25.95.) The authors, both staff members of the National Security Council in the Clinton administration, give an account of bureaucratic inertia in antiterrorist efforts before Sept. 11, with the F.B.I., the C.I.A. and the military reluctant to share information or work with one another. AMBLING INTO HISTORY: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush. By Frank Bruni. (HarperCollins, $23.95.) Bruni, who covered the Bush candidacy at length for The Times, concentrates on Bushs personality and mannerisms, which he renders as oddly prankish and frivolous for a politician, at least until grounded by the events of Sept. 11. AMERICAN GROUND: Unbuilding the World Trade Center. By William Langewiesche. (North Point/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $22.) A reporters account of dismantling the trade centers ruins, an engineering project that came in ahead of schedule; the many fine performances adduced permit the author to skewer greed and selfishness when he sees them. AMERICAN SCOUNDREL: The Life of the Notorious Civil War General Dan Sickles. By Thomas Keneally. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $27.50.) A frequently spellbinding recitation of the career of a totally awful politician, crook, adulterer and murderer who was no good as a general either. AMERICAS FIRST DYNASTY: The Adamses, 1735-1918. By Richard Brookhiser. (Free Press, $25.) A succinct, skillful account of the lives of John, John Quincy, Charles Francis and Henry, four generations of men often brilliant but often shortsighted as well: two presidents, one diplomat and, finally, a historian who felt he had failed the ancestors. AMONG THE HEROES: United Flight 93 and the Passengers and Crew Who Fought Back. By Jere Longman. (HarperCollins, $24.95.) Longman, a Times reporter, powerfully reconstructs the final moments of United Flight 93, the hijacked airliner that crashed outside Shanksville, Pa., on Sept. 11, 2001, and argues that the planes occupants were not passive victims but defiant combatants. BAD ELEMENTS: Chinese Rebels From Los Angeles to Beijing. By Ian Buruma. (Random House, $27.95.) Conversations with Chinese dissidents around the world, beginning in the West and concluding in parts of China; they show a widespread desire for democracy that is not necessarily adapted to prevail. BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. By Edmund S. Morgan. (Yale University, $24.95.) A distinguished historian gives us a Franklin highly clubbable yet vigorous in the exercise of civic virtue; not at first eager to throw off the Hanoverian yoke, he maneuvered France into joining our war with its wealth and its navy. BIG GAME, SMALL WORLD: A Basketball Adventure. By Alexander Wolff. (Warner, $24.95.) A senior writer for Sports Illustrated explores the world of international basketball, a sport far more popular than many Americans realize, from Bhutan to Lithuania and back. THE BIRDS OF HEAVEN: Travels With Cranes. By Peter Matthiessen. (North Point, $27.50.) A veteran celebrant of natures provision and a travel writer who defies every element searches out the worlds 15 (11 endangered) species of cranes, observing with great passion and scrupulous attention to detail; splendidly illustrated by Robert Bateman. BLACK LIVINGSTONE: A True Tale of Adventure in the Nineteenth-Century Congo. By Pagan Kennedy. (Viking, $24.95.) A charming, intelligent venture in biography; the writers interest in William Henry Sheppard, a black missionary in 19th-century Africa, began when she learned that he was a fellow Virginia Presbyterian. THE BLACK VEIL: A Memoir With Digressions. By Rick Moody. (Little, Brown, $24.95.) Recollections of 29 days the author spent in a psychiatric hospital in Queens 15 years ago, crazily apprehensive of sexual assault, woven into a tour of Maine looking (in vain) for plausible connections between his family and Hawthornes black-veiled minister. THE BLANK SLATE: The Modern Denial of Human Nature. By Steven Pinker. (Viking, $27.95.) Pinker, a psychologist at M.I.T., proposes that human nature is largely genetically fixed and attempts to destroy the blank slate theory with an arsenal of scientific research, acute analysis and attitude. BLOOD-DARK TRACK: A Family History. By Joseph ONeill. (Granta, $27.95.) A smart, diligent inquiry into the World War II era and the (possibly culpable) activities of the authors grandfathers, one a Turk interned by the British in Palestine, the other an I.R.A. officer, perhaps a murderer. BLUE LATITUDES: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before. By Tony Horwitz. (Holt, $26.) Horwitz cheerfully pursues James Cooks hugely successful 18th-century voyages of discovery in the Pacific and in doing so considers how becoming part of the known world changed the discoverees. BREAKING CLEAN. By Judy Blunt. (Knopf, $24.) An account, delicately eloquent when its not scary, of 12 years as a ranch wife, mother and overstressed laborer in Montana; the author, who was virtually unconsulted about her career choice up to this point, arose one day and scrammed. BROWN: The Last Discovery of America. By Richard Rodriguez. (Viking, $24.95.) The final volume in Rodriguezs trilogy of memoirs exploring the American predicament turns on the concept of brown not in the sense of pigment but in the sense of mixed, unclear, fluid, dissolving boundaries like race, class and country. THE CELL: Inside the 9/11 Plot, and Why the FBI and CIA Failed to Stop It. By John Miller and Michael Stone with Chris Mitchell. (Hyperion, $24.95.) The real good guys in this story about the chain of events leading up to 9/11 -- and the opportunities missed along the way -- are the blue-collar detectives who were convinced something big was in the works but were stymied by a sluggish intelligence bureaucracy. CHARLES DARWIN. The Power of Place: Volume II of a Biography. By Janet Browne. (Knopf, $37.50.) The second half of a portrait of Darwin and the Victorian habitat that enabled his work but paradoxically rejected its content, though honoring him as Britains greatest scientist. CHERRY: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard. By Sara Wheeler. (Random House, $26.95.) An authoritative evocation of the English amateur explorer who was permanently bemused by his two years with Scott in the Antarctic and wrote a classic book about them, The Worst Journey in the World. CHRIST: A Crisis in the Life of God. By Jack Miles. (Knopf, $26.95.) The author of God: A Biography (1995) continues his examination of God strictly as a literary character -- a complex, contradictory one who learns about himself from his interactions with humans; in becoming one himself, God accepts and expiates his guilt for his errors since the Creation. COMPLICATIONS: A Surgeons Notes on an Imperfect Science. By Atul Gawande. (Metropolitan/Holt, $24.) Gawande, who is both a surgeon and a staff writer for The New Yorker, looks clearly and coolly at the limits and defects of medicine, which, he says, may be the most complex of human endeavors. THE CONQUERORS: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitlers Germany, 1941-1945. By Michael Beschloss. (Simon & Schuster, $26.95.) Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- brilliant, charming, unpredictable and dying -- dominates this vigorously written history of the Allies plan for rebuilding Germany after the war. A COOKS TOUR: In Search of the Perfect Meal. By Anthony Bourdain. (Bloomsbury, $22.95.) An amusing account of the authors global search for the perfect mix of food and context that takes the reader to the culinary corners of the earth: from Vietnam (a live cobra heart) and Japan (poisonous blowfish) to England (roasted bone marrow) and Scotland (deep-fried Mars bar). THE COUNT AND THE CONFESSION: A True Mystery. By John Taylor. (Random House, $24.95.) An anxiety-enhancing, doubt-engendering report about the murder (or suicide) of a prosperous social climber in Virginia and the conviction (or railroading) of a woman who had been his lover; by the author of Storming the Magic Kingdom. THE DEMON IN THE FREEZER: A True Story. By Richard Preston. (Random House, $24.95.) Preston, whose 1994 book The Hot Zone made his name synonymous with troublesome microbes, turns his focus from the Ebola virus to another, potentially even more lethal microbial disaster -- a bioterrorist attack with the smallpox virus. DONT LETS GO TO THE DOGS TONIGHT: An African Childhood. By Alexandra Fuller. (Random House, $24.95.) A memoir from the bad side of African history, presented with plenty of wit and no apologies, by a woman whose family, seeking to escape black rule, batted around several former colonies, surrounded by watchdogs, booze and tragedy. DOT.CON: The Greatest Story Ever Sold. By John Cassidy. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) A history of the dot-com bubble by a financial writer for The New Yorker, with insightful observations about the Federal Reserve and severe views on its chairman, Alan Greenspan. THE DOUBLE BOND. Primo Levi: A Biography. By Carole Angier. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $40.) This life of the author, chemist and Auschwitz survivor sprang from two equally necessary processes of creation: inductive, which illuminates the radiant work, and deductive (Levis family declined to talk), which conjures up the intensely private man in all his resilient melancholy. A DOUBLE THREAD: Growing Up English and Jewish in London. By John Gross. (Ivan R. Dee, $23.50.) A delightful memoir of life to the age of 18 in London before, during and after World War II, and a paean to the authors family, itself major delightful; Gross, who grew up to be an eminent British man of letters, recalls never suffering on account of being Jewish. THE DRESSING STATION: A Surgeons Chronicle of War and Medicine. By Jonathan Kaplan. (Grove, $25.) An unusual memoir by a white South African surgeon whose sense of adventure has led to work on the battlefields of Kurdistan, Eritrea, Myanmar and Mozambique -- and aboard a cruise ship. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. By Tom Wicker. (Times Books/Holt, $20.) This volume in Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.s American Presidents series holds Eisenhowers accomplishments up against the two major issues of his time: the cold war and civil rights. Wicker, a former reporter and columnist at The Times, likes the man more than his policies. EDISONS EVE: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life. By Gaby Wood. (Knopf, $24.) Ever since Enlightenment philosophers conceived of men and animals as machines, clever people have found reasons and means to enforce the idea; this book presents notable automatons, both genuine and fake, down to Thomas Edisons time. EISENHOWER: A Soldiers Life. By Carlo DEste. (John Macrae/Holt, $35.) A very thick book about an ambitious, self-confident man; it explores adeptly the events in 1944-45 that tested the limits of Eisenhowers abilities, which were enormous as to organization and political sensitivity but not as to strategic skills. ELEANOR AND HARRY: The Correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman. Edited by Steve Neal. (Lisa Drew/Scribner, $26.) Truman and Franklin D. Roosevelts widow needed each other badly for their own agendas; these 254 letters show a mutual wariness that never ceased, but growing respect and admiration as well. EMMAS WAR. By Deborah Scroggins. (Pantheon, $25.) Scroggins builds her suspenseful account of the continuing Sudanese civil war around the short life of Emma McCune -- a beautiful, adventurous and recklessly passionate aid worker -- and sheds light on the greater European dreams, delusions and failures in the African country. THE ENGLISHMANS DAUGHTER: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War I. By Ben Macintyre. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.) A remarkable excavation of an improbable incident, the concealment for a year and a half in a French village of some stranded British soldiers, one of them the father of a local woman the author met there in 1997. FIREHOUSE. By David Halberstam. (Hyperion, $22.95.) A journalists homage to firefighters, their values, their culture and their courage during the martyrdom imposed on the New York Fire Department by the catastrophe of the attack on the World Trade Center. FIRST GREAT TRIUMPH: How Five Americans Made Their Country a World Power. By Warren Zimmermann. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) A career diplomats brilliantly readable book on the Spanish-American War and its aftermath, and on the men who used the occasion to gain control of 10 million people of nearly all races and an island empire: Theodore Roosevelt, Henry Cabot Lodge, John Hay, Elihu Root and Alfred T. Mahan. THE FLY SWATTER: How My Grandfather Made His Way in the World. By Nicholas Dawidoff. (Pantheon, $26.) Dawidoffs captivating family memoir is a tribute to his twice-exiled grandfather, the Harvard economist Alexander Gerschenkron, retracing his tortuous path to Cambridge and recounting the intellectual passion that earned Gerschenkron the title the last man with all known knowledge. THE FUTURE OF LIFE. By Edward O. Wilson. (Knopf, $22.) This distinguished biologist proposes that there is yet time to avoid a grand planetary environmental crash provided we get serious, acknowledge a duty of stewardship and recognize an emotional affiliation (biophilia, as he calls it) with other kinds of life. THE FUTURE OF THE PAST. By Alexander Stille. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) A smart, engaging consideration of how hard and how important it is to maintain a collective memory through the preservation of monuments and artifacts, the care of libraries, the recording of cultural systems, the preservation of breathing spaces. THE GATEKEEPERS: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College. By Jacques Steinberg. (Viking, $25.95.) Steinberg, a national education correspondent for The Times, was able to follow the procedures at Wesleyan University for a year and see how the admissions process really looks, to the admitters as well as the applicants. He found it strenuous for all concerned, and not getting easier. GENES, GIRLS, AND GAMOW: After the Double Helix. By James D. Watson. (Knopf, $26.) A priceless glimpse into the intellectual circle, and the campus coed distractions, that nurtured the revolutionary paradigm discovered by Watson and his collaborator Francis Crick. GENIUS: A Mosaic of One Hundred Exemplary Creative Minds. By Harold Bloom. (Warner, $35.95.) Not your usual literary critic, Bloom; he arrives at his judgments through broad comparisons rather than close textual scrutiny (too bad for you if you havent read everything yet), but his enthusiasm, his gigantic assertions and his religious fervor have the power to trample unbelief to dust. GRACEFULLY INSANE: The Rise and Fall of Americas Premier Mental Hospital. By Alex Beam. (PublicAffairs, $26.) In its putatively mind-healthy bucolic setting, McLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass., sheltered the well-born and the articulate bewildered for a couple of centuries; this entertaining narrative is short on the real desolation of mental illness but copious as to anecdote and changing clinical fashions. HART CRANE: A Life. By Clive Fisher. (Yale University, $39.95.) A penetrating, absorbing biography of the American poet, a sensation in his teens, who ended his own life at 32; the author, a British critic, captures the loneliness and pathos of Cranes existence and places his poems where the life illuminates them. HEART OF A SOLDIER: A Story of Love, Heroism, and September 11th. By James B. Stewart. (Simon & Schuster, $24.) A rendering, in precise and careful prose, of the life and death of Rick Rescorla, director of security for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11. Rescorla, an old soldier, helped direct 2,700 people down the stairs of 2 World Trade Center to safety and was last seen on the 10th floor, climbing. HIGH AND MIGHTY: SUVs -- The Worlds Most Dangerous Vehicles and How They Got That Way. By Keith Bradsher. (PublicAffairs, $28.) The author, a former Detroit correspondent of The Times, devotes statistics, indignation and a how-things-work comprehension of the internal combustion monster to an argument that the S.U.V. is bad for your health. HIS INVENTION SO FERTILE: A Life of Christopher Wren. By Adrian Tinniswood. (Oxford University, $35.) A capable, workmanlike biography of the rebuilder of St. Pauls Cathedral and renewer of 56 churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666. A HOUSE UNLOCKED. By Penelope Lively. (Grove, $23.) An English country house, where Lively herself spent much of her adolescence, becomes a historical landscape, dramatizing the generations that owned it and illuminating, from its gong stands to its napkin rings, centuries of change and upheaval. HOW TO BE ALONE: Essays. By Jonathan Franzen. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $24.) Thirteen smart pieces, dated from 1994 to 2001, all recording a sensibility in endless conflict with the world around it and with itself, concerned with the contradictions and ambivalences a novelist usually embodies in imaginary people. IN RUINS. By Christopher Woodward. (Pantheon, $24.) A historians learned, eclectic approach to the spooky gratification (known to Henry James and Rose Macaulay) that comes with contemplating the collapse of presumptuousness past, the wreck of vanished wealth, importance and influence. The examples, all European, begin and end in Italy. IN THE DEVILS SNARE: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692. By Mary Beth Norton. (Knopf, $30.) A historian seeks to restore the witchcraft panic to its context, much of which consisted of the terrifying Indian wars of late-17th-century New England; the society that tried witches in 1692 was living on the edge of hysteria already, from natural political events we find it hard to recall. IRIS ORIGO: Marchesa of Val dOrcia. By Caroline Moorehead. (Godine, $35.) A fascinating biography of a remarkable woman, an Anglo-American heiress who became the lady of a big estate in Tuscany, where she knew everybody, worked hard, taught peasants to read, helped people escape Fascism and wrote beautifully on many subjects. ISADORA: A Sensational Life. By Peter Kurth. (Little, Brown, $29.95.) The meteoric trajectory of Isadora Duncan, the American free spirit who more or less invented modern dance; astonished audiences throughout the first quarter of the 20th century; and lost two children in a strange automobile accident, then her own life in an even stranger one. JAMES MADISON. By Garry Wills. (Times Books/Holt, $20.) The fourth president of the United States -- who can remember him? A solid, subtle, ingenious contributor to the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Madison seemed ineffectual after his election to the top magistracy in 1808; Wills attributes his failings to provincialism, naïveté and a preference for the arts of legislation over the drive of leadership. JAYS JOURNAL OF ANOMALIES. By Ricky Jay. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $40.) The contents of the 16 issues of Jays handsome and handsomely researched historical quarterly of the same title about magicians and unusual performers, like the armless and legless bowler Matthew Buchinger and the multiple crucifixion victim Chami Khan. JAZZ MODERNISM: From Ellington and Armstrong to Matisse and Joyce. By Alfred Appel Jr. (Knopf, $35.) Appel pursues the formal and thematic affinities between jazz and high modernism, linking the rhythms of Armstrong to Hemingway, the phrasings of Ellington to the work of Brancusi and Man Ray. JESSE JAMES: Last Rebel of the Civil War. By T. J. Stiles. (Knopf, $27.50.) A provocative, heavily revisionist biography of Americas prototype bandit; Jamess Civil War experiences as a death-squad guerrilla lead directly to his postwar depredations, which are seen less as proletarian anger against the rich and the banks than as efforts to defeat Reconstruction. JOHN MAYNARD KEYNES. Volume Three: Fighting for Freedom, 1937-1946. By Robert Skidelsky. (Viking, $34.95.) The final installment of Skidelskys life of the most influential economist since Adam Smith, who gave his all in the World War II struggle for survival, negotiating finances with the United States and trying to save Britains market economy. LAKE EFFECT. By Rich Cohen. (Knopf, $23.) Cohens third book, a fast-moving memoir about his typically 1980s youth in suburban Chicago, is at its heart a candid and nostalgic tribute to the authors friendship with Jamie Drew -- the charismatic, troubled true hero of Cohens youth. THE LAST AMERICAN MAN. By Elizabeth Gilbert. (Viking, $24.95.) A profile of Eustace Conway, woodsman, hunter and visionary utopian, competent in every situation except social ones, where his inability to see anything in any way except his way becomes a handicap; he seems to lack the flexibility of his analogue, Crocodile Dundee. LAZY B: Growing Up on a Cattle Ranch in the American Southwest. By Sandra Day OConnor and H. Alan Day. (Random House, $24.95.) An engaging portrait, by the Supreme Court justice and her brother, of a distinctive, vanished way of life on 250 square miles without electricity or running water but with plenty of grit. THE LETTERS OF KINGSLEY AMIS. Edited by Zachary Leader. (Talk Miramax/Hyperion, $40.) More than a thousand delicious pages of uncharitable observations by the author of Lucky Jim and many other fine surly novels, a womanizer who did not like women and a writer who could barely tolerate books; his letters to Philip Larkin are particularly funny, despite the absence of Larkins letters to him. L. FRANK BAUM: Creator of Oz. By Katharine M. Rogers. (St. Martins, $27.95.) A life of the Royal Historian, whose 14 Oz books are unsentimental, emphasizing the homely American virtues of self-reliance and practicality, and fearlessly approaching old problems like the soul-body question; by a professional scholar and lifetime Oz devotee. A LIFE IN PIECES: The Making and Unmaking of Binjamin Wilkomirski. By Blake Eskin. (Norton, $25.95.) In 1997, Wilkomirskis Fragments was much admired as a masterpiece of Holocaust writing; since then, both author and book have faded into fraudulence. Eskins research now illuminates not the Holocaust but the fantasy life of a disturbed young man with an unhappy childhood whose real name Eskin himself is not altogether sure of. A LIFES WORK: On Becoming a Mother. By Rachel Cusk. (Picador USA, $22.) The author of three well-esteemed English novels has dropped fiction for this funny, smart memoir of personal transition, in which her sense of captivity appears undeniable, breast-feeding despicable and mommy groups unbearable. LINCOLNS GREATEST SPEECH: The Second Inaugural. By Ronald C. White Jr. (Simon & Schuster, $24.) A professor of American religious history interprets the speech as a sermon on the origins and paradoxes of the Civil War; its great theme is that God has his own purposes and knows them better than humans do. THE LIVES OF THE MUSES: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired. By Francine Prose. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) In her first nonfiction outing, Prose assesses women without whom the product of some male artists would have been different, from Alice Liddell (Lewis Carrolls Alice) to Suzanne Farrell (who cast a fertile spell on George Balanchine). LONDON: The Biography. By Peter Ackroyd. (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $45.) A prodigiously researched history that is neither top-down nor bottom-up but cross-sectional: shunning traditional chronology and players (aristocrats are scarce), Ackroyd instead offers a London defined by a set of recurring motifs -- smell, sound, speech, fog, fire, ghosts and plague are some of the more significant. LONE PATRIOT: The Short Career of an American Militiaman. By Jane Kramer. (Pantheon, $25.) Real-life anthropology: the author hangs with a band of self-styled patriots in Washington State, finding them armed to the teeth yet reassuringly inept. LONGITUDES AND ATTITUDES: Exploring the World After September 11. By Thomas L. Friedman. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) A collection of essays, supplemented by diary entries and previously unpublished notes, by the Timess foreign affairs columnist, many of them on the implications of 9/11 and the sheer complexity of America today. LOST DISCOVERIES: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science -- From the Babylonians to the Maya. By Dick Teresi. (Simon & Schuster, $27.) A knowledgeable, witty science writer surveys the numerous scientific achievements of non-European civilizations, many of them well known to historians of science but usually excluded from classrooms in favor of Westerners. THE LUNAR MEN: Five Friends Whose Curiosity Changed the World. By Jenny Uglow. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $30.) A study of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, which met monthly in the latter 18th century over the defining activities of the modern world: science and industries based on science. LYRICS OF SUNSHINE AND SHADOW. The Tragic Courtship and Marriage of Paul Laurence Dunbar and Alice Ruth Moore: A History of Love and Violence Among the African American Elite. By Eleanor Alexander. (New York University, $26.95.) Alcoholism, bipolar disorder and the stresses of extreme visibility all played a part in the unfortunate relationship of Americas first famous black poet and his wife, herself a writer of considerable distinction. THE MAKING OF A PHILOSOPHER: My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy. By Colin McGinn. (HarperCollins, $25.95.) An autobiography whose author rose from Blackpool to Oxford to Rutgers, showing what it is like to be a philosopher in action: tough, determined, amusing, combative and clever, as well as engaged in an important and difficult task. MASTER OF THE SENATE: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. By Robert A. Caro. (Knopf, $35.) In this new volume of his humongous life of Johnson (whom he is beginning to admire, a little), the author follows his man in taking over the United States Senate and pushing through it the first civil rights bill since 1875. MASTERS OF DEATH: The SS-Einsatzgruppen and the Invention of the Holocaust. By Richard Rhodes. (Knopf, $27.50.) A writer who has long been interested in the problems of violence examines the SS units assigned to kill Jews in Eastern Europe by shooting them; Nazi anxiety about the psychological health of men so employed led to the invention first of the gas vans, then of the gas chambers. THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World. By Ken Alder. (Free Press, $27.) An absorbing, often comic account of the beginning of the metric system by two astronomers, charged to create a new unit of distance; this they did, despite wars, mobs, absurd rumors and even a touch of madness. MOVIE LOVE IN THE FIFTIES. By James Harvey. (Knopf, $35.) Towering westerns and pert musicals are largely absent from this quirky celebration: Harvey asks how they can compare with James Mason as a megalomaniac cortisone addict or Deanna Durbin, incredibly, as a noir femme fatale -- beacons of subversion in an age that fairly crackled with conformity. MRS. PAINES GARAGE: And the Murder of John F. Kennedy. By Thomas Mallon. (Pantheon, $22.) A journalistic inquiry into Ruth Paine, the woman who welcomed Marina Oswald -- and sometimes her husband, Lee -- into her suburban Dallas home in 1963; it offers a new theory about the antecedents of the assassination. MUSSOLINI. By R. J. B. Bosworth. (Oxford University, $35.) A historians judicious examination of the dictator who helped create Fascism from a mix of socialism and nationalism; he ruled Italy for 21 years, losing touch with reality when he became dependent on Hitler and too well acquainted with war. MY FINE FEATHERED FRIEND. By William Grimes. (North Point, $15.) Grimes, the restaurant critic for The Times, knew nothing about the variety of the chicken that arrived in his backyard -- cackling, pacing and pecking -- and stayed. NAPOLEON: A Biography. By Frank McLynn. (Arcade, $32.95.) A biography that offers the general reader a synthesis of the enormous body of specialized research about Napoleon now available and examines current myths and controversies; its approach is occasionally psychoanalytical rather than historical. NATASHAS DANCE: A Cultural History of Russia. By Orlando Figes. (Metropolitan/Holt, $35.) This sequel to the authors history of the Russian Revolution examines the great and endless debates that have absorbed the nations intellectual, artistic and moral authorities from Peter the Greats opening to the West until the present. THE NATURAL: The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton. By Joe Klein. (Doubleday, $22.95.) A solid, if provisional, overview of That Man, whose every sin made him more popular but who was never able (or didnt really try) to accomplish big-deal reforms, though his incremental achievements were substantial. NEAR A THOUSAND TABLES: A History of Food. By Felipe Fernández-Armesto. (Free Press, $25.) A bold historian (he has written a book about truth) undertakes to follow the shifts in history that have socialized people by making them cook and multiplied people by multiplying their diets and their choices. NINETY DEGREES NORTH: The Quest for the North Pole. By Fergus Fleming. (Grove, $26.) Flemings remarkable account of the quest for the North Pole between the 1850s and 1926 picks up where his previous book, Barrows Boys, about the British Admiraltys obsession with the Northwest Passage, left off; the two make up a sort of history of 19th-century Arctic exploration. NOBODYS PERFECT: Writings From The New Yorker. By Anthony Lane. (Knopf, $35.) Film, literature and other passions explored in virtuosic prose by a critic whose cheerful temper never stands in the way of a brilliant line delivered with insouciance, and whose powers as a literary critic are first-rate, even when he reviews Judith Krantz. nothing remains the same: Rereading and Remembering. By Wendy Lesser. (Houghton Mifflin, $24.) A critic turns her scrutiny to the minute but vertiginous re- of rereading: each time she cracks a dusty cover, her young self, long dormant, emerges from within. OAXACA JOURNAL. By Oliver Sacks. (National Geographic, $20.) An organized excursion for fern lovers became a discovery of Mexico for the endlessly curious Dr. Sacks, first shocked by the third-world poverty of rural Mexico, then entirely absorbed in the visit to another time provided by its pre-Hispanic remains. OFF TO THE SIDE: A Memoir. By Jim Harrison. (Atlantic Monthly, $25.) A sprawling, roundabout report on the life lived large by a writer who is fairly sprawling and roundabout himself; hunting, fishing, eating a five-hour meal with Orson Welles, making vast money in Hollywood and misplacing it, offering no apologies for his participation in the incalculable messiness of life. OUR POSTHUMAN FUTURE: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution. By Francis Fukuyama. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $25.) Fukuyama (The End of History and the Last Man) advances another controversial but thoughtful thesis: biotechnological advances -- behavior-modifying drugs, genetic tinkering -- may alter human nature and move us into a posthuman stage of history. OUT OF THE BLUE: The Story of September 11, 2001, From Jihad to Ground Zero. By Richard Bernstein. (Times Books/Holt, $25.) An ambitious and straightforward attempt by Bernstein and other reporters of The Times to turn the myriad narrative strands of 9/11 -- the attacks, the perpetrators, the victims -- into a coherent whole, complete with recurring characters and plotlines that balance action and exposition. THE PERFECT STORE: Inside eBay. By Adam Cohen. (Little, Brown, $25.95.) The author, who writes editorials for The Times, traces the growth of the online auction site from fuzzy utopian community to corporate behemoth where one can buy everything from Sèvres and Studebakers to pickle pots and, yes, The Perfect Store. PRINCE OF PRINCES: The Life of Potemkin. By Sebag Montefiore. (Thomas Dunne/St. Martins, $45.) A densely detailed biography of Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin (1739-91), who served as Catherine the Greats military strategist, diplomat, literary adviser, art collector and lover, outlasting other favorites in her glamorous yet crude court. A PROBLEM FROM HELL: America and the Age of Genocide. By Samantha Power. (New Republic/Basic Books, $30.) Power, the executive director of Harvards Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, expertly documents American passivity toward various genocides in the 20th century. RACISM: A Short History. By George M. Fredrickson. (Princeton University, $22.95.) A historian proposes that the distinctive ideology of Western racism was made necessary by the growing Enlightenment belief in equality; earlier and elsewhere, men had needed no theories to treat one another ill. REACHING FOR GLORY: Lyndon Johnsons Secret White House Tapes, 1964-1965. Edited by Michael Beschloss. (Simon & Schuster, $30.) Political skill, ruthlessness and paranoia distinguish Johnsons talks covering the period in 1964 and 1965 when he got his Great Society programs through Congress and plunged this country into war in Vietnam. READING CHEKHOV: A Critical Journey. By Janet Malcolm. (Random House, $23.95.) A gifted journalists elegant excursion through and around Chekhov, finding wild and strange objects in his stories where others have often sighted only delicacy, modesty and candid, well-behaved shades of gray. THE RECKLESS MIND: Intellectuals in Politics. By Mark Lilla. (New York Review, $24.95.) A sense of disappointment drives this nimble, illuminating study: disappointment that such profound and influential minds as Heidegger, Benjamin and Foucault could have been so politically detached when confronted by the tumult of the 20th century. REINVENTING THE BAZAAR: A Natural History of Markets. By John McMillan. (Norton, $25.95.) An economists world tour: the Dutch flower market in Aalsmeer and the centuries-old camel fair of Rajasthan, India, are two examples of McMillans enthusiasm for free markets, which achieve their full potential, he insists, only if the government provides the necessary infrastructure. REVENGE: A Story of Hope. By Laura Blumenfeld. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) When her father, an American rabbi, was shot in the Old City of Jerusalem, Blumenfeld ingratiated herself with the Palestinian gunmans family, planning the disclosure of her identity as a form of revenge; Blumenfeld, a Washington Post reporter, explores the mechanics and psychology of vengeance and creates a subtle portrait of the gunman himself. THE RIVERS TALE: A Year on the Mekong. By Edward A. Gargan. (Knopf, $26.95.) A journey from the Tibetan plateau to the delta in Vietnam, taken by a former correspondent for The Times in an effort to understand better the region that obsessed him since his college days; the American presence, and its effects on the lands along the river, are always in view. THE RURAL LIFE. By Verlyn Klinkenborg. (Little, Brown, $20.) Brief, luminous, descriptive and meditative essays, mostly from this newspaper, pursuing a month-to-month journey through the seasonal demands of country life, especially on the authors farm in upstate New York but with excursions to the West. THE RUSSIA HAND: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy. By Strobe Talbott. (Random House, $29.95.) An account that manages to be, well, diplomatic even as it depicts the post-cold-war epic in terms of personal encounters between two men who seem the joint product of Chaucer, Rabelais and Balzac: Bill Clinton and the man Clinton called Ol Boris. SAKHAROV: A Biography. By Richard Lourie. (Brandeis University/University Press of New England, $30.) The author, a novelist and translator, offers a subtle, revealing life of Andrei Sakharov, the nuclear physicist who developed into an authentic apostle of humanity and democracy in the former Soviet Union. SALT: A World History. By Mark Kurlansky. (Walker, $28.) Theres more to salt than everybody knows; without it, people cant live. Its cheap now, and many people get too much, but that wasnt always so; Kurlansky gives the economic, political, chemical and industrial story of a substance once so valuable that salary is named for it. SAVAGE REPRISALS: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks. By Peter Gay. (Norton, $24.95.) A distinguished cultural historian reads three landmark novels as propelled, respectively, by Dickenss resentment of his mean old mother, Flauberts of the culture of the bourgeoisie and Manns of his capitalist father. SCOTTY: James B. Reston and the Rise and Fall of American Journalism. By John F. Stacks. (Little, Brown, $29.95.) The life of a journalist who joined The New York Times in 1939 and came to personify it; his access to the powerful, who came to trust his balance and propriety, served him well in the 1950s, less well in the age of Vietnam and Watergate. THE SHORT SWEET DREAM OF EDUARDO GUTIÉRREZ. By Jimmy Breslin. (Crown, $22.) A true-life account of an illegal Mexican immigrant who died on a New York construction site, and of the dreary lives and modest ambitions common to Mexicans in this country. SINCLAIR LEWIS: Rebel From Main Street. By Richard Lingeman. (Random House, $35.) A biography of Lewis (1885-1951), Americas first Nobel laureate in literature (1930), whose once immense reputation has suffered an undeserved posthumous decline. THE SISTERS: The Saga of the Mitford Family. By Mary S. Lovell. (Norton, $29.95.) The story of the six high-spirited, aristocratic, amusing and amusable sisters who did as they pleased, mostly, and captured the imagination of Britain for about half the 20th century; the author takes no sides and, what is truly remarkable, keeps track of all six lives at once. SISTERS OF SALOME. By Toni Bentley. (Yale University, $27.95.) A former Balanchine dancer, profoundly alerted by a visit to the Crazy Horse in Paris, explores the history and philosophy of stripping, from its inspiration in Wildes Salome to her own personal experimental demonstration in a TriBeCa club. THE SKEPTIC: A Life of H. L. Mencken. By Terry Teachout. (HarperCollins, $29.95.) This biography copes with Menckens shortcomings -- crankiness, provinciality and an inability to believe Germany was doing wrong in the 20th century -- by placing them in contemporary contexts. SNOBBERY: The American Version. By Joseph Epstein. (Houghton Mifflin, $25.) In a society more ostensibly egalitarian than ever, Epstein observes, snobbery has proliferated and intensified in new forms, with new peaks from which to look down on others; he fleshes out his perceptions with an examination of his own experience. SOLDIERS: Fighting Mens Lives, 1901-2001. By Philip Ziegler. (Knopf, $26.) Ziegler, well known as a biographer of royalty and celebrities, concentrates here on the ashes of empire by talking to residents of Londons Royal Hospital Chelsea, veterans of Britains wars from Flanders to Cyprus and Aden, men who had little to lose in life and little to gain but whose fidelity never came into question. SOMEBODYS GOTTA TELL IT: The Upbeat Memoir of a Working-Class Journalist. By Jack Newfield. (St. Martins Press, $25.95.) The scrappy, Brooklyn-born muckraker recalls the tumultuous 60s and its characters, big and small, from the worlds of politics, sports, crime, journalism and music. SONIC BOOM: Napster, MP3, and the New Pioneers of Music. By John Alderman. (Perseus, $26.) A smart and meticulous book on the still unfolding digital music revolution; Alderman, who covered the scene for Wired News, is sympathetic to the upstarts but not uncritically so. SOROS: The Life and Times of a Messianic Billionaire. By Michael T. Kaufman. (Knopf, $27.50.) A survivor of Nazism and Communism who has made billions is bound to contain paradoxes; personally shy and financially bold, Soros admits he wants to be the conscience of the world and has given huge sums to undermine totalitarianism but, as this biography by a former correspondent and editor for The Times makes clear, he cares little for publicity. SPY: The Inside Story of How the FBIs Robert Hanssen Betrayed America. By David Wise. (Random House, $24.95.) Wise, a longstanding authority on the spy business, explains how a turncoat of no great intellect or skill escaped detection for two decades of bumbling by several intelligence services, including the K.G.B., which never learned his identity though he had betrayed to it many American agents or targets of C.I.A. recruitment. STARDUST MELODIES: The Biography of Twelve of Americas Most Popular Songs. By Will Friedwald. (Pantheon, $27.50.) The songs, all of which everybody knows, are discussed in individual chapters, giving each songs genesis, a microscopic analysis of its structure, a detailed assessment of its performing and recording history; by a deeply attentive, emotionally attuned listener. STEP ACROSS THIS LINE: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002. By Salman Rushdie. (Random House, $25.95.) Sketches, essays, columns, speeches from a decade, some of them a bit mean-spirited, others gorgeous. They include a grave, eloquent recent lecture series at Yale that calls on artists to use their own weapons against the assault of Sept. 11 and its subversion of the world we thought we knew. TEACHER: The One Who Made the Difference. By Mark Edmundson. (Random House, $23.95.) A fascinating tribute to a teacher who opened the doors of careful thought to Edmundson in 1969, his last year in high school in Medford, Mass., a working-class city that supplied factory workers and civil servants; instead, it eventually delivered Edmundson into the English professoriate of the University of Virginia. TED HUGHES: The Life of a Poet. By Elaine Feinstein. (Norton, $29.95.) A sensitive full-scale portrait of Hughes (1930-98), a private man who became known as much for his tragic marriage to Sylvia Plath as for his own work. TESTS OF TIME. By William H. Gass. (Knopf, $25.) An impressive collection of essays by the distinguished novelist, essayist and philosopher; Gass addresses matters literary, social and political, including the fatwa against Salman Rushdie and the O. J. Simpson trial. THEM: Adventures With Extremists. By Jon Ronson. (Simon & Schuster, $24.) A British journalist and documentary filmmaker, straining to sound naïve, hobnobs with conspiracy theorists who think a few conspirators run the world; at their most extreme, they can become conspirators themselves, as Timothy McVeigh did, disappointed with the Ku Klux Klan. THEODORE REX. By Edmund Morris. (Random House, $35.) The sequel to The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (1979) covers a relatively brief period, beginning with the assassins bullet that elevated Vice President Roosevelt to the White House, ending seven and a half years later. A THREAD ACROSS THE OCEAN: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable. By John Steele Gordon. (Walker, $26.) Laying a telegraphic cable 2,000 miles long and two miles deep required amazing supplies of money, time and nerve; it finally succeeded in 1866. THE THREATENING STORM: The Case for Invading Iraq. By Kenneth M. Pollack. (Random House, $25.95.) Pollack brings his experience as a Persian Gulf analyst for the C.I.A. to bear in this argument for invasion; he sets the stage with a chilling portrayal of conditions there, then examines each of the buzz-word choices facing the United States -- containment, deterrence and regime change. TIME TRAVELER: In Search of Dinosaurs and Ancient Mammals From Montana to Mongolia. By Michael Novacek. (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $26.) An insightful natural history of our planet and a lively memoir about how Novacek, curator of paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History, fell into the profession. TONIGHT AT NOON: A Love Story. By Sue Graham Mingus. (Pantheon, $24.) A memoir (by a onetime Milwaukee debutante) of 11 years and numerous tumults with a very difficult man, the jazz composer, bandleader and double-bass virtuoso Charles Mingus, the last three as his wife until his death in 1979. TRAINS OF THOUGHT: Memories of a Stateless Youth. By Victor Brombert. (Norton, $25.95.) A lyrical, luminous account of the displacements of a bourgeois Jewish childhood, mostly in Europe, and of United States Army service during World War II; by a distinguished literary academic who came to America with his family in the summer of 1941. TRAVELS WITH A TANGERINE: A Journey in the Footnotes of Ibn Battutah. By Tim Mackintosh-Smith. (Welcome Rain, $30.) A genial, civilized rendition, by a curious scholar, of some of the 75,000 miles pursued by the great 14th-century Moroccan traveler Ibn Battutah. WAR IS A FORCE THAT GIVES US MEANING. By Chris Hedges. (PublicAffairs, $23.) Hedges, a reporter for The Times and for 15 years a foreign correspondent, admits to war addiction and swears it off, stepping back to reflect on the carnage he witnessed and the devices of those whose purpose war serves. WARRIOR POLITICS: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan Ethos. By Robert D. Kaplan. (Random House, $22.95.) Kaplans plan for preserving the American ideal suggests using the wisdom of the past -- Churchills statesmanship, Sun-Tzus hesitant determinism -- as a guide for future foreign policy. WHAT EVOLUTION IS. By Ernst Mayr. (Basic Books, $26.) A wise and illuminating examination, by an illustrious evolutionary biologist, that sorts out the complexities of evolution -- as the author calls it, perhaps the greatest intellectual revolution experienced by mankind -- with insight and authority. WHAT KIND OF NATION: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States. By James F. Simon. (Simon & Schuster, $27.50.) A professor of law examines the angry dialogue of several decades between Jefferson, who thought the 13 colonies made 13 sovereignties, and Marshall, who thought the Constitution made them one. WHAT WENT WRONG? Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response. By Bernard Lewis. (Oxford University, $23.) A remarkable, succinct account of a cultural and political conflict centuries in the making; by a distinguished and prolific historian of the Muslim world. WHY I AM A CATHOLIC. By Garry Wills. (Houghton Mifflin, $26.) Wills, who says he has never even considered leaving the Roman Catholic Church, tells why, giving en route a condensed history of the papacy and of its growth in recent centuries to aberrant proportions, in need of supervision from the loyal People of God. WILL YOU MISS ME WHEN IM GONE? The Carter Family and Their Legacy in American Music. By Mark Zwonitzer with Charles Hirshberg. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) Born and raised in southwestern Virginia, the original Carters -- two women on guitar and autoharp and, often, a peculiar male voice -- seemed both strange and beautiful in 1927, and still do. WITTGENSTEINS POKER: The Story of a Ten-Minute Argument Between Two Great Philosophers. By David Edmonds and John Eidinow. (Ecco/HarperCollins, $24.) So what happened between Ludwig Wittgenstein and Karl Popper in a legendary encounter in 1946, and who should care? The authors reconstruct the episode and try to find out. THE WRITER AND THE WORLD. By V. S. Naipaul. (Knopf, $30.) A collection covering about three decades and divided into sections on India, Africa and America, by the Nobel Prize winner whose perpetual personal frame of reference and utter fearlessness about giving offense season his habitual gloom. YOUTH. By J. M. Coetzee. (Viking, $22.95.) During that period of a mans life when he is most repulsive to himself and everybody else, Coetzee, at the end of his teens a snob, prude and mamas boy, devoted immense efforts to becoming a lover and an artist, with results so disappointing at the time he has seen fit to write this memoir in the third person. CHILDRENS BOOKS ACTION JACKSON. By Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan. Illustrated by Robert Andrew Parker. (Roaring Brook, $16.95.) (Ages 8 and up) The text of this account of Jackson Pollocks life is straightforward, and the illustrations are brilliantly done by an accomplished artist whose lighthearted expressionist approach works gracefully and effectively with Pollocks painting. AMERICA. By E. R. Frank. (Richard Jackson/Atheneum, $18.) (Ages 12 and up) An absorbing and challenging novel about a teenage boy who has been abandoned, adopted, abandoned, fostered, abducted, abandoned and more, but is surviving. EMILY DICKINSONS LETTERS TO THE WORLD. Written and illustrated by Jeanette Winter. (Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $16.) (Ages 5 and up) A small book offers an intriguing and rich introduction to the life and work of the poet. The illustrations are complex and insightful. FEED. By M. T. Anderson. (Candlewick, $16.99.) (Ages 12 and up) In this novel about teenagers in a consumerist future, the author imagines an America where people have computer chips implanted in their heads. For spring break youngsters party on the moon. The book is fast, shrewd, slang-filled and surprisingly engaging. HONDO & FABIAN. Written and illustrated by Peter McCarty. (Holt, $16.95.) (Ages 2 to 5) Two friends, a dog and cat, spend a perfect day -- the dog at the beach with another dog, the cat at home with the baby of the house. Serene and enchanting. I STINK. By Kate McMullan. Illustrated by Jim McMullan. (Joanna Cotler/HarperCollins, $15.95.) (Ages 4 to 8) A big urban garbage truck tells all -- and that includes describing steering wheels, gas pedals, brakes, all in pairs -- and recites a deliciously revolting alphabet of what it devours. A subject of consuming interest to many children, and the book is illustrated with great energy and wit. MADLENKAS DOG. Written and illustrated by Peter Sis. (Frances Foster/Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $17.) (Ages 5 to 9) Madlenka and her imaginary dog (so real it frightens cats) on a red leash tour her urban neighborhood in this splendid, witty fantasy. THE THIEF LORD. By Cornelia Funke. The Chicken House/Scholastic, $16.95.) (Ages 8 and up) A fast-paced German novel about orphan brothers who run away from Hamburg to Venice and join a band of pickpockets led by an aristocratic thief. What distinguishes it from other fantasy capers is its respect for both the struggle to grow up and the mixed blessings of growing old. THE THREE QUESTIONS: Based on a Story by Leo Tolstoy. Written and illustrated by Jon J. Muth. (Scholastic, $16.95.) (Ages 6 and up) A beautifully illustrated and engaging meditation on how to live, involving a boy named Nikolai and his friends the heron, the monkey and the dog, a wise turtle, and a mother panda and her baby. YELLOW UMBRELLA. Written and illustrated by Jae Soo Liu. (Kane/ Miller, $19.95.) (Ages 4 and up) An enchanting wordless account of a rainy day journey, seen mostly from above as children move through rain-drenched streets. Theres also a CD that is meant to accompany the story and, surprisingly, it does. MYSTERIES CITY OF BONES. By Michael Connelly. (Little, Brown, $25.95.) Sheer narrative propulsion drives the action of this haunting story, which plunges Harry Bosch, a Los Angeles police detective, into deep contemplation of the ancient history of human violence as he hunts for meaning in the death of a 12-year-old boy whose skeletal remains turn up in the hills of Laurel Canyon. HELL TO PAY. By George P. Pelecanos. (Little, Brown, $24.95.) This down-and-dirty writer from the urban badlands of Washington breaks out two of his best characters, ex-cops Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, to give us a jolting view of lawless neighborhoods where menacing pimps, feral street kids and no-hope stiffs live and prey on one another. JOLIE BLONS BOUNCE. By James Lee Burke. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) A former plantation overseer, whose biblical name of Legion suggests this diabolical villains capacity for evil, gets a little too close to Burkes Cajun detective, Dave Robicheaux, in a Southern Gothic tale that uncovers the traditions of sexual sadism in a Louisiana bayou town. THE LAST KASHMIRI ROSE. By Barbara Cleverly. (Carroll & Graf, $24.) The seductive beauty and secret dangers of India under the British Raj are evoked in this exotic debut whodunit, which sends a dashing Metropolitan Police officer to Bengal in 1922 to investigate the deaths of five cavalry officers wives, each a victim of her own worst nightmare. THE PRONE GUNMAN. By Jean-Patrick Manchette. (City Lights Noir, paper, $11.95.) Cool, compact and shockingly original, this noir crime novel dispassionately observes the professional ruin and mental decline of a hired killer who makes the mistake of thinking that he can retire from his deadly trade and settle down with a nice girl. Q IS FOR QUARRY. By Sue Grafton. (Marian Wood/Putnam, $26.95.) Building on the skimpy facts in a true (and still unsolved) 1969 homicide of an unknown woman whose body was dumped in a quarry in Santa Barbara County, Grafton creates a sensitive assignment for her private eye, Kinsey Millhone, and two old geezer-cops who are obsessed with this sad case. RESOLUTION. By Denise Mina. (Carroll & Graf, $25.) Although it can stand alone as the stark account of the murder of an eccentric old woman who sells bootleg CDs at an open-air flea market, this crime novel is the final chapter in a class-conscious trilogy about the disintegration of a socially dysfunctional neighborhood in gritty Glasgow. THE SNIPERS WIFE. By Archer Mayor. (Mysterious/Warner, $23.95.) Willy Kunkle, a one-armed, wild-eyed cop who normally works the clean mean streets of Brattleboro, Vt., comes to New York to identify the body of his ex-wife and sticks around to hunt for her killer, using the sniper skills he picked up in Vietnam to feel his way around this jungle of a city. THE STONE MONKEY. By Jeffery Deaver. (Simon & Schuster, $25.) In a labyrinthine plot that is a marvel of intricate game construction, Deaver pits his genius sleuth, Lincoln Rhyme, against a shape-shifting villain known as the Ghost, who sank a ship of illegal Chinese immigrants off the coast of Long Island and is now hellbent on eliminating all witnesses to the atrocity. SCIENCE FICTION ACROSS THE NIGHTINGALE FLOOR. By Lian Hearn. (Riverhead, $24.95.) An engaging fantasy of love and revenge that secures the readers suspension of disbelief by bringing to life an appealing setting -- an alternate medieval Japan -- and a likable young hero who has inherited the ability to cloud mens minds and to seem to be in two places at the same time. APPLESEED. By John Clute. (Tor/ Tom Doherty, $25.95.) The co-author of both The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and The Encyclopedia of Fantasy brings his vast knowledge of imaginative literature to this playful but daunting far-future novel. Readers must be on their toes to follow Clutes quicksilver re-envisioning of familiar genre premises and jargon. THE LONGEST WAY HOME. By Robert Silverberg. (Eos/HarperCollins, $25.95.) In his usual lucid prose Silverberg chronicles the long journey home of a young aristocrat who, fleeing a rebellion of his worlds supposedly docile underclass, discovers some disturbing truths about his society and some heartening truths about himself, while interacting with a fascinating mix of truly surprisingly alien aliens. PRETERNATURAL3. By Margaret Wander Bonanno. (Tor/Tom Doherty, $24.95.) Bonanno is at it again, proving (as she did in the first two books in this series) that science fiction and postmodern metafiction were made for each other. What she sees while looking over her own shoulder -- love outdueling death -- will enthrall any reader prepared to follow her through this tricky maze of a novel. SKIN FOLK. By Nalo Hopkinson. (Warner Aspect, paper, $12.95.) The acclaimed author of Brown Girl in the Ring and Midnight Robber puts her lyrical gifts to good use in a collection of new and previously published short stories whose mood ranges from erotic to enraged. SOLITAIRE. By Kelley Eskridge. (Eos/HarperCollins, $24.95.) The plotting of this first novel may strain credulity, but when a young woman who has been promised the world is sentenced to eight years of solitary confinement inside her own head, her high-tech ordeal is evoked in a stylistic and psychological tour de force that arouses both pity and terror. THE WATCH. By Dennis Danvers. (Eos/HarperCollins, $24.95.) A thoughtful time-travel romp by the author of Circuit of Heaven and End of Days. Its unlikely hero is the Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin, who is plucked from his deathbed in 1921 and given a second chance to bring Western society to its senses. THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT. By Kim Stanley Robinson. (Bantam, $25.95.) What if the Black Plague had wiped out not a third but virtually all of Europes population in the 14th century? This is the eye-opening premise of Robinsons latest novel, a magisterial alternate history from one of science fictions most important writers.. 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A health worker who was diagnosed with Ebola after returning to Scotland from Sierra Leone has arrived at a specialist treatment centre in London. The woman, who travelled to Glasgow via Casablanca and London Heathrow, was taken to the Royal Free .