FIRST PERSON
March BookPage interviews:

Geraldine Brooks: Exploring faith in crisis with a stunning second novel

Like many women, Geraldine Brooks was inspired by Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, which she first read as a girl in Australia... March is the incredible result of two converging trains of thought, though the novel touches tangentially on Little Women. 'I wouldn't have the hubris to attempt to rewrite Louisa May Alcott, so I've just taken the bit of the story she didn't want to deal with, for whatever complex, psychological or Freudian reasons,' Brooks laughs. Her fascinating and meticulously researched novel imagines the Civil War experiences of Mr. March, whom she based on Alcott's own father.

Daniel Silva watched the televised images of Yasir Arafat's chaotic funeral last fall from several different viewpoints. As a former Middle East correspondent for United Press International, Silva had covered the bloody Israeli-Palestinian conflict firsthand. Later, as a news producer for CNN's Washington bureau, he had witnessed the false spring of the Oslo peace accords between Arafat and the newly elected Israeli government of Yitzhak Rabin. But what was doubtless foremost in Silva's mind as the central Palestinian figure of our time was laid to "unrest" was the fact that he had just completed a thorough and scathing indictment of Arafat in his eighth novel, Prince of Fire.

FEATURES

SPOTLIGHT: Graphic novels

New books on gardening

Well Read: Francine Prose's new novel explores man's capacity for change

Novelist Michael Malone blends mystery and a daytime drama in Behind the Book

World travel: Things to know before you go

Christian living: Books from today's religious press

Basketball diaries

FICTION

A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka

The Position by Meg Wolitzer

Blood Father by Peter Craig

The Rising by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins

Winslow in Love by Kevin Canty

Drives Like a Dream by Porter Shreve

Metropolis by Elizabeth Gaffney

Speak Softly, She Can Hear by Pam Lewis

Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock

The Ice Chorus by Sarah Stonich

BOOK CLUBS

Selections in new paperback releases

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver Abridged by Martin Jenkins

Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

Maya Running by Anjali Banerjee

Sexy by Joyce Carol Oates

I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak

Looking for Alaska by John Green

Zen Shorts by Jon J. Muth

Jitterbug Jam by Barbara Jean Hicks

NONFICTION

Biography
Jimi Hendrix by Sharon Lawrence
The Friar and the Cipher by Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone

Entertainment
The Big Show by Steve Pond

History
Jefferson's Vendetta by Joseph Wheelan

Scandal
Conspiracy of Fools by Kurt Eichenwald

Military History
By Duty Bound by Ezell Ware, Jr.

AUDIO
The Spoken Word: Sukey's favorite is Upstate

MYSTERIES
Whodunit?: March's new mysteries

COOKING
Good and good for you

ROMANCE
The Goddess Rules

BUSINESS & FINANCE
Redefining women's work