Inside this month's issue of BookPage

May 2005
In This Issue

FIRST PERSON
May BookPage interviews:

Philip Caputo: A Pulitzer Prize winner spars with war-torn Africa

The ghosts of literary heavyweights are never far from the page in Philip Caputo's unflinching, dust-swept African odyssey, Acts of Faith. Three very different love-in-the-trenches subplots recall the shell-shocked assignations of Hemingway. And the brutally honest, two-fisted prose reminds us yet again why Caputo, along with Jim Harrison and Peter Matthiessen, may be the last of the big cats in our literary jungle.

Nicole Krauss: Dealing with love and loss in a poignant second novel

For her inventive second novel, The History of Love, Nicole Krauss set herself "two small personal rules." The first was that she wouldn't do any research for the book. Krauss' second rule was that she would never let herself be bored.

Steven Johnson: That pop culture obsession just might be good for you

Meet Harlan Coben

Meet Mini Grey

FEATURES

Mother's Day: Books to celebrate Mom

Graduation: Taking the next step

Behind the Book: Realizing a sister's dream

Well Read: Isabel Allende imagines the origins of the legendary Zorro

Robert Oppenheimer: Two biographies of the man who built the A-bomb

Entertaining: Southern-style advice for hosts

Travel: Roaming around the U.S.A.

Careers: Getting more out of work

FICTION

Chore Whore by Heather H. Howard