A NIGERIAN IN NEW YORK risks it all to make a fortune by stealing his village deity. Brilliant, bittersweet. A MINUS

FOREIGN GODS, INC.
Soho Press, Incorporated
2014

GORGEOUS, POETIC, SLIGHTLY surrealist novel of intersections between middle-class and poor in Buenos Aires. A MINUS

SHANTYTOWN
New Directions Publishing Corporation
2013

BLEAKLY GORGEOUS NOVEL contrasts peasant and tourist life in Morocco. Beautiful, spare, and haunting. A MINUS

THE AFRICAN SHORE
Yale University Press
2013

BEST WORST MOVIE ever? It might be THE ROOM; an inside account of how this glorious turkey was made delights. A MINUS

THE DISASTER ARTIST
Simon & Schuster
2013

HILARIOUS, ABSURD FANTASY! A slacker college student travels through time to a 19th century whaling ship. A MINUS

TOUCHING A NERVE : THE SELF AS BRAIN
W. W. Norton & Company
2013

HILARIOUS, ABSURD FANTASY! A slacker college student travels through time to a 19th century whaling ship.

INTENSE, POETIC BIOGRAPHICAL novel celebrates the woman known as “The Mexican Girl” in Kerouac’s ON THE ROAD. A MINUS

MANANA MEANS HEAVEN
University of Arizona Press
2013

AS NATURE REBOUNDS amid the Northeastern US’s suburban sprawl, “nature wars” arise. Fantastic reporting! A MINUS

NATURE WARS: THE INCREDIBLE STORY OF HOW WILDLIFE COMEBACKS TURNED BACKYARDS INTO BATTLEGROUNDS
Broadway Books
2013

BRILLIANT, OFTEN WHIMSICAL guide to what we do and don’t know about human evolution. Enlightening fun! A MINUS

THE ACCIDENTAL SPECIES: MISUNDERSTANDINGS OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
University Of Chicago Press
2013

A GLORIOUSLY, RICHLY IMAGINED fantasy world is the setting for a haunting tale of love and death. Beautiful. A MINUS

A STRANGER IN OLONDRIA
Small Beer Press
2013