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A sexy novel about sex—and sex alone—has reenergized him, just when his fans were giving up hope.

Anne Carson’s deeply moving scrap heap.

The history of the vocoder, cryptography’s top-secret funk machine.

Michael Lewis tries hard to pluck champions from the financial crisis in his new book, The Big Short, but overlooks the most weirdly authentic hero of all.

David Shields’s new “manifesto” is a pain in the ars poetica.

When academics get personal.

Don DeLillo’s latest brings us as close to pure fictional stasis as we’re ever likely to get.

Nabokov never wanted us to read his unfinished last novel. Unless, thrillingly, he did.

The latest in a bumper crop of books about the ethics of eating animals.

The horrification of Jane Austen.