Complete book coverage for Sunday, July 12, 2009

Percival Everett’s presence is felt but elusive. Ah, the point: He’ll have you thinking.

Diamond-hard stories of the many ways in which we misunderstand other people as well as ourselves.

The genre drew from devilish scandals in the City of Angels in which even the city’s toughest attorneys weren’t free of blame.

A novel of absences and landscapes.

The author and Wadad Makdisi Cortas are fond of the region. But geography and the personal still rule.

The last of the author’s novels to be translated into English, the book looks at what it was like when Paris was being attacked by the Allies.

There’s something about traveling outside your comfort zone, Mark Haskell Smith believes, that can set off a writer’s radar.

A collection of short fiction and nonfiction that is many things: clever, self-effacing, charming and uneven.

As the anniversary of the music celebration draws near, new books offer fresh perspectives.

Fiction Weeks on list1.Finger Lickin’ Fifteen by Janet Evanovich (St.

Fiction 1. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith ($12.95) 2.