On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review  By DAVID FOSTER WALLACE
Reviewed by TOM McCARTHY David Foster Wallace's coherent, if uncompleted, posthumous novel is a grand parable of "late capitalism" set in the innards of the Internal Revenue Service. Also in the Book Review  By KENJI YOSHINO
Reviewed by GARRY WILLS The findings of a law professor who teaches a course on the Shakespeare's relevance.  By JOHN POLLACK
Reviewed by P. J. O'ROURKE A champion punster makes a case for his odd diction.  By GEOFF DYER
Reviewed by STEPHEN BURN This collection of writings on what Geoff Dyer calls "the unruly range" of his concerns centers on photography, music and socio-historical subjects.  By MEGHAN O'ROURKE
Reviewed by GAIL CALDWELL In this memoir, the poet Meghan O'Rourke chronicles her mother's death and its desolate aftermath.  By FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
Reviewed by MICHAEL LIND Francis Fukuyama argues that a combination of three political concepts changed the world.  Reviewed by LAURA SHAPIRO Sigrid Nunez recalls sharing an apartment with Susan Sontag while dating her son in the late 1970s.  By KATE ATKINSON
Reviewed by ALISON MCCULLOCH In the fourth novel of an unorthodox mystery series, the ex-P.I. Jackson Brodie searches for a missing woman.  By DIANE ACKERMAN
Reviewed by ABRAHAM VERGHESE A writer helps her husband recover the ability to use words through declarations of affection.  By MARJORIE GARBER
Reviewed by CHRISTOPHER R. BEHA As once disparaged genres attain the status of classics, a Harvard professor asks what makes something "literary." By TIM SANDLIN
Reviewed by MIKE PEED Fifteen years after the last installment, Tim Sandlin brings back Lydia Elkrunner and other characters from his series about GroVont, Wyo.  Children's Books By STEPHEN KRENSKY and LINDSAY LEE JOHNSON
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL "The Great Moon Hoax" tells the amusing true tale of an elaborate newspaper prank; "Ten Moonstruck Piglets" is a bedtime story about a drove of pigs who sneak outside to frolic by moonlight. | Book Review Features  Essay By JENNIFER SCHUESSLER David Foster Wallace's lively correspondence with accountants suggests taxes may not be as boring as you think.  Featuring Meghan O'Rourke on her memoir, "The Long Goodbye"; and Jennifer Schuessler on David Foster Wallace and the I.R.S. Reviews by The Times's Critics Editor's Note Thanks for taking the time to read this e-mail. Feel free to send feedback; I enjoy hearing your opinions and will do my best to respond. Blake Wilson
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