Kaliane Bradley is the author of “The Ministry of Time,” the best-selling debut novel that was chosen for Good Morning America Book Club. A British-Cambodian writer and editor based in London, Bradley ...

THE TEMPTER (225 pp.) — Anthony Bloomfield—Scribner ($3.95). Graham Greene discovered in Brighton Rock (1938) that a thriller’s format and a dose of Krafft-Ebing can lure usually unreflective readers ...

OUR MAN IN HAVANA (247 pp.)—Graham Greene—Viking ($3.50). The only thing a Graham Greene hero can be sure of is that, morally speaking, he will not get something for nothing. In such superb serious ...

Memories fade, and also betray us. I published a memoir more than 20 years ago now and realized only many years after publication that it was largely untrue. My research was deficient. I had ...

Mewshaw, whom the longtime NPR book commentator Alan Cheuse once called “the best novelist in America nobody knows,” mentions both of these books in his memoir. In writing about Iyer’s book, Mewshaw ...