Provides critical overviews of novels from various cultures and time periods. Includes discussions of plot, characters, themes and structure as well as the work's cultural and historical significance.

"ISSN: 1094-3552."

Atonement [film] (novel by Ian McEwan) -- The beautiful and damned (by F. Scott Fitzgerald) -- Catalyst (by Laurie Halse Anderson) -- A grain of wheat (by Ngugi wa Thiong'o) -- Heart of Aztlan (by Rudolfo A. Anaya) -- Homeless bird (by Gloria Whelan) -- The inheritance of loss (by Kiran Desai) -- Linden Hills (by Gloria Naylor) -- The Maltese Falcon [film] -- My year of meats (by Ruth L. Ozeki) -- Nineteen minutes (by Jodi Picoult) -- Song yet sung (by James McBride) -- The storyteller (by Mario Vargas Llosa) -- Tobacco Road (by Erskine Caldwell).