• Detroit City Is the Place To Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis | Mark Binelli | Metropolitan Books Mark Binelli, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Men's Journal, was not the only enterprising reporter to migrate to Detroit in the wake ???
    Detroit City Is the Place To Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis | Mark Binelli | Metropolitan Books Mark Binelli, a contributing editor at Rolling Stone and Men's Journal, was not the only enterprising reporter to migrate to Detroit in the wake ???
  • The Investigation | Philippe Claudel | MacLehose Press The French author Philippe Claudel's newly translated novel is a dark fable that is as entertaining as it is disturbing.
    The Investigation | Philippe Claudel | MacLehose Press The French author Philippe Claudel's newly translated novel is a dark fable that is as entertaining as it is disturbing.
  • Thinking in Numbers | Daniel Tammet | Hodder & Stoughton Daniel Tammet, the British author and autistic savant, follows up his first two books with Thinking in Numbers, a collection of essays about "how maths illuminates our lives".
    Thinking in Numbers | Daniel Tammet | Hodder & Stoughton Daniel Tammet, the British author and autistic savant, follows up his first two books with Thinking in Numbers, a collection of essays about "how maths illuminates our lives".
  • Motherland | William Nicholson | Simon and Schuster William Nicholson’s novel about five people who meet in England during the Second World War just before the battle of Dieppe suffers from a predictable plot and leaden characters, writes Deborah Linds???
    Motherland | William Nicholson | Simon and Schuster William Nicholson’s novel about five people who meet in England during the Second World War just before the battle of Dieppe suffers from a predictable plot and leaden characters, writes Deborah Linds???
  • The Racketeer | John Grisham | Double Day The Racketeer works as another ripping read (and probably another blockbuster film) due to Grisham's tight plotting.
    The Racketeer | John Grisham | Double Day The Racketeer works as another ripping read (and probably another blockbuster film) due to Grisham's tight plotting.
  • Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks | Jenny White | Princeton University Press Though likely to disappoint ascendant Arab Islamists, this idea of a personal Muslimhood, free from state oversight, is at the centre of Turkish life today. It's also the foc???
    Muslim Nationalism and the New Turks | Jenny White | Princeton University Press Though likely to disappoint ascendant Arab Islamists, this idea of a personal Muslimhood, free from state oversight, is at the centre of Turkish life today. It's also the foc???

Books

The National's bookshelf - January 25

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