A new collection of previously uncompiled essays finds a writer poised at the threshold of art and literature

The long-overdue publication of Susan Sontag's collected short fiction 

Jennifer Baumgardner and Amy Richards (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, 2010)

On the death of David Foster Wallace, a writer who reflected upon the joys and complications of language and living

A new anthology of Rimbaud's work

Don DeLillo's Cosmopolis

Peter Ackroyd's Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination

Rooting for Sir J. G. Frazer's The Golden Bough

Crossing over to the dark side

Literary forensics

Haruki Murakami's latest novel

The life of Paul Bowles