Featured Books
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Our reviews are written by Christopher Merrill, The World's international literature critic, unless noted otherwise. Merrill directs the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.
| May 12, 2008 | Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out | | May 12, 2008 | Wolf Totem | | May 7, 2008 | Beyond The Great Wall: Recipes and Travels in the other China | | May 6, 2008 | Wolves of the Crescent Moon | | April 30, 2008 | Invisible Nation | | April 24, 2008 | Shut up, I'm talking | | April 18, 2008 | The Endless City | | April 8, 2008 | The Bin Ladens | | April 7, 2008 | Taxi | | March 18, 2008 | The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur | | March 17, 2008 | Bad Lands | | March 5, 2008 | Plan B 3.0 - Mobilizing to Save Civilization | | February 25, 2008 | Uglier Than a Monkey’s Armpit | | February 21, 2008 | Tunnels | | February 18, 2008 | A Golden Age | | February 14, 2008 | Chasing the Flame: Sergio Vieira de Mello and the Fight to Save the World | | January 22, 2008 | Crockatt & Powell's book recommendations | | December 12, 2007 | Biting the Wax Tadpole - Confessions of a Language Fanatic | | December 7, 2007 | Christopher Merrill's children's holiday books selection | | December 6, 2007 | Christopher Merrill's holiday books selection | | December 6, 2007 | World reporters' book recommendations | | December 6, 2007 | Books we've reviewed on The World in 2007 | | November 9, 2007 | The Arrival | | October 1, 2007 | The Ten Thousand Things | | September 21, 2007 | Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor | | August 28, 2007 | Late Summer Reads | | July 3, 2007 | Travel books | | June 28, 2007 | Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life | | June 28, 2007 | 1967: Israel, the War, and the Year that Transformed the Middle East | | June 28, 2007 | Landscape of Hope and Despair: Palestinian Refugee Camps | | June 28, 2007 | Tasting the Sky: A Palestinian Childhood | | June 28, 2007 | Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid | | June 27, 2007 | Macedonia | | June 20, 2007 | Salman Rushdie | | June 15, 2007 | I'jaam | | June 13, 2007 | American Visa | | June 8, 2007 | Road from Ar Ramadi | | May 9, 2007 | Witness: One of the Great Correspondents of the Twentieth Century Tells Her Story | | May 2, 2007 | A Dry White Season | | May 2, 2007 | Before I Forget | | April 27, 2007 | Abyssinian Chronicles | | April 5, 2007 | The Savage Detectives | | March 29, 2007 | The Last Mughal | | March 20, 2007 | In the Country of Men | | March 12, 2007 | We Band of Angels | | March 12, 2007 | The Story of French | | March 6, 2007 | Blood and Volume: Inside New York's Israeli Mafia | | March 6, 2007 | The Long Road Home | | February 23, 2007 | Aya | | February 22, 2007 | How I Became a Nun | | February 15, 2007 | A Long Way Gone - Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | | February 13, 2007 | 365 Ways To Change the World: How to Make a Difference One Day at a Time | | February 8, 2007 | The Daughters of Juarez: A True Story of Serial Murder South of the Border | | January 30, 2007 | Farewell Waltz | | January 30, 2007 | The Curtain: An Essay in Seven Parts | | January 26, 2007 | Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip - Book One | | January 24, 2007 | Ryszard Kapuściński | | January 17, 2007 | African Queen - The Real Life of the Hottentot Venus | | January 1, 2007 | Books that Inspire | | December 28, 2006 | The Eejits | | December 12, 2006 | Best books for 2006 | | December 11, 2006 | Best children's books for 2006 | | November 30, 2006 | Arabesque - A Taste of Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon | | November 22, 2006 | Bleeding Hearts | | November 15, 2006 | Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers | | November 6, 2006 | Seeing | | November 1, 2006 | Zoya's Story: An Afghan Woman's Struggle for Freedom | | October 10, 2006 | Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea | | October 6, 2006 | Insecure at Last | | October 5, 2006 | In the Line of Fire: A Memoir | | September 28, 2006 | Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families | | September 8, 2006 | A Woman in Jerusalem | | July 7, 2006 | Flaubert: A Biography | | July 6, 2006 | Suite Française | | July 5, 2006 | Empress | | May 5, 2006 | The Helmet of Horrors | | May 4, 2006 | Lion’s Honey | | May 3, 2006 | Weight | | May 2, 2006 | The Penelopiad | | May 1, 2006 | A Short History of Myth | | March 9, 2006 | Shalimar the Clown | | March 8, 2006 | What the Body Remembers | | March 7, 2006 | The Cripple and His Talismans | | March 6, 2006 | The Idea of Pakistan | | March 4, 2006 | Three Cups of Tea : One Man's Mission to Fight Terrorism and Build Nations . . . One School at a Time | | March 3, 2006 | Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy) | | March 2, 2006 | Gate of the Sun | | March 1, 2006 | The Nimrod Flipout | | February 6, 2006 | American Vertigo : Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville | | January 3, 2006 | Matisse the Master, A Life of Henri Matisse: the Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954 | | January 2, 2006 | The Economy of Prestige: Prizes, Awards, and the Circulation of Cultural Value | | January 1, 2006 | A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army, 1941-1945 |
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