Reviews

• Standing firm in changing times
• Titillating clues ease the wait for ‘The Lost Symbol’
• Dan Brown delivers with 'Lost Symbol'
• Portrait of a family and place
• From Paris, with love
• New World adventure and exploration
• A fantastical lesson
• Irish coming-of-age from a new author
• A feminist icon's last novel
• A dark coming-of-age story
• The Moore the merrier
• Mistaken identities
• A lush, Latin family affair
• Living in the shadow of the Holocaust
• Tracing broken family ties across time and place
• A literary rabble-rouser shifts his focus
• A wonderfully beastly tale
• From despair to hope in Rwanda
• International romance avoids cliché
• Re-imagining Christopher Columbus
• Literature heals amid grief
• Oates’ chilling small-town mystery
• Drabble contemplates the puzzle of life
• Saving Europe’s greatest treasures
• Revelatory bio of bombshell icon
• A pioneer of integration recalls the struggles of the Little Rock Nine
• Art inspires during time of crisis
• Murder in post-Katrina New Orleans
• Learning to live, love and share at an all-girls boarding school
• Lessons from a golden retriever
• Making the most of final moments
• Kate DiCamillo’s captivating fable
• Creatures great and small
• Daring fourth novel from an English literary star
• Death stalks the Minnesota State Fair
• Teens face the aftermath of September 11
• Two paws up for Ann M. Martin's latest
• Mixing work and play in pre-war New York