This Week's Acquisitions
- Gilles Rozier, The Mercy Room: A Novel (Little, Brown, 2006). During the Nazi occupation of France, a collaborator of unknown gender has an affair with a Jew hiding in his or her basement.
- Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy (Penguin, 1990). Omnibus edition of Auster's three novellas, all of them riffs on the detective genre.