A young woman makes the most of her confusion in Andrea Levy’s Fruit of the Lemon.

Matthew Wray’s Not Quite White traces the history of the term “white trash.”

Collaborative graphic novel Macedonia explores the eye of the Balkan storm.

A look at Dave Eggers’ What Is the What, an account of a Sudanese refugee’s struggle to adapt in the United States.

Wally Lamb’s She’s Come Undone explores the dark corners of obesity.

A close reading of Jonathan Lethem’s novel You Don’t Love Me Yet.

A review of Brian Doherty’s This Is Burning Man: The Rise of a New American Underground.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault reports there’s more happening in Africa than we thought.