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Sir Terry Pratchett discusses 'The Long Earth'
By Stephen Baxter
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Hardcover Fiction
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This week's reviews
ABSENT PARENTS
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TROUBLE DOWN UNDER
There’s a beach in New Zealand the writer Janet Frame visited in 1956, just before setting out on her first trip abroad. She stayed in a cottage off a lonely, sandswept gravel road with a friend of a friend, one of the few...more
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THEIR OWN PETARD
The most revealing moment in Janet Malcolm’s new collection of essays and profiles, “Forty-One False Starts,” comes toward the end of “A Girl of the Zeitgeist,” her 1986 piece about Ingrid Sischy, who was then the...more
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THE MEN WHO WOULD BE KING
The story of the British invasion of Afghanistan in 1839-42 (what was later called the First Afghan War) can be briefly told. A British Army entered the country in April 1839, captured Kabul and ejected the ruler Dost Mohammad...more
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TRIAL AND ERROR
The dubiously accused almost always disappoint, once their full stories are told. It is the crime that magnetizes our attention. Remove the stain of guilt, or at least of strong complicity, and what’s left? One more casualty,...more
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BREAKING THE MOLD
In Helene Wecker’s first novel, two more than usually disoriented foreigners emerge onto the streets of 1899 New York. One is a golem, a clay woman fashioned near Danzig, then shipped across the ocean as the wife of a man who...more
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