This Month

This month we mix it up, with a selection of our usual in-depth reviews and a special section of stimulating magazines, short stories, beach reads, and how-to books to get you through the scorching season ahead. If you're looking to sink your teeth into something, you'll find reviews of the latest from Murakami and Ondaatje — as well as critical darling Miranda July, Chilean sensation Robert Bolaño, and wacky Austrian artist Erwin Wurm. If you're like us, though, summer is all about assembling more books than you could possibly read. There's plenty to choose from in our section of snapshot reviews, where you can find fresh magazines to tuck in your day-bag; short stories to curl up with; how-to books that can teach you to build a jetpack or sew a handbag; and clever page-turners, bursting with steamy locales, mobsters, and sharks.- Toby Warner, Managing Editor