Sunday Books: coverage for December 26, 2010

The anthologies look at two very different forms of African American oral tradition but take similar paths to their conclusions about the history and import of the black narrative tradition.

A look at the epic struggle to save the Soviet Union’s Jews and the collapse of communism.

Wisty and Whit are back, trying to escape the evil clutches of the One Who Is the One.

This fiction about a father and his eight children is a thinly veiled examination of the author’s reputation in light of recent revelations of his Nazi wartime service.

‘Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land’ by Kurt Timmermeister, ‘From the Land of the Moon’ by Milena Agus, and ‘The Boy: A Holocaust Story’ by Dan Porat.

Chatty yet polished, and always vibrant, Bellow’s letters serve as the autobiography he never wrote.

Was the Oglala Lakota Sioux leader killed resisting arrest or was he murdered by the U.S. military?

In ‘Sapphique,’ the sequel to ‘Incarceron,’ Catherine Fisher continues the adventures of her young heroes in a world with a mind of its own.