
(Cade Martin/For The Washington Post)
FICTION
Barkskins , by Annie Proulx (Scribner)
By drilling deep into the forests that enabled this country to conquer the world, Proulx has laid out the whole history of American capitalism and its rapacious destruction of the land.
A miraculous story about a pair of jazz musicians who travel from Harlem to Paris just before the Nazis invade.
Set in 1970s New York amid one of baseball’s most famous pennant races, the “X-Files” star’s second novel traces a rite of passage: a son coming to grips with a distant father who has only a few months to live.
This big-hearted, often hilarious sequel to “Nobody’s Fool” finds police chief Douglas Raymer trying to track down his late wife’s lover.