Redeployment
2014 · 304 pages
Twelve narrators tell their own Iraq, from a Marine who shot dogs in the street to a diplomat ordered to teach Iraqi children baseball. Klay is sharpest on coming home.
★ 5.0
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The Zone of Interest
2014 · 306 pages
At Auschwitz a Nazi officer courts the commandant's wife while the commandant, a preening drunk, complains about his workload. The third narrator is a Jewish prisoner made to burn the bodies.
★ 5.0
Men Explain Things to Me
2014 · 176 pages
At an Aspen party a man lectures Solnit about an important new book on the photographer Muybridge. She wrote it. Her essays track how silencing women shades into violence against them.
★ 4.9
Age of Ambition
2014 · 403 pages
Osnos spent eight years watching China chase fortune faster than its politics allowed, and tells it through a soldier who swam the strait to defect and a blind lawyer who escaped house arrest.
★ 4.8