Sunday Books: coverage for March 20, 2011

For the men in this new short-story collection, life encompasses one exhausting mystery after another.

The art historian draws on her close relationship with the artist to produce a biography that rings fair and true.

The novel-in-stories depicts a fantastical history of a Massachusetts town.

The colorful, brutal and unforgettable characters who have practiced the so-called sweet science are brought to life with varying degrees of skill by the journalists in this collection.

Home is no comfort for the collection of reclusive men and women in these short stories.

A novel and a memoir teenage drug addiction and rehab is seen from the addict’s perspective.

Reviewed: ‘The Dressmaker of Khair Khana’ by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon; ‘Cleaning Nabokov’s House’ by Leslie Daniels; ‘This River’ by James Brown

Best friends spend the summer without each other in ‘Jersey Tomatoes Are the Best’; new picture books ask readers, and fathers, to give their undivided attention.