On the Cover of Sunday's Book Review  By AMANDA FOREMAN
Reviewed by GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT This new history of Britain's role in the American Civil War examines the battle the Union and the Confederacy waged for English support. Also in the Book Review  By JOSH RITTER
Reviewed by STEPHEN KING In the singer-songwriter Josh Ritter's first novel, a West Virginia farm boy heeds voices he began hearing in the trenches of World War I.  By LOUISA THOMAS
Reviewed by ALAN RIDING Writing about her great-grandfather, the socialist Norman Thomas, Louisa Thomas considers how conscience fares when society deems it subversive.  By PAMELA HAAG
Reviewed by KATIE ROIPHE Pamela Haag examines the phenomenon of marriages that are not unhappy enough to break up, but not exactly happy, either.  By CHESTER BROWN
Reviewed by ANNIE SPRINKLE In this graphic memoir, Chester Brown gives up on romance and pursues sex with prostitutes.  Reviewed by HARRY V. JAFFA A new translation of Aristotle's "Ethics" addresses modern well-being.  By BHARATI MUKHERJEE
Reviewed by AKASH KAPUR Bharati Mukherjee's eighth novel is a kind of parable of the new India.  By WILL ALLISON
Reviewed by LUCINDA ROSENFELD In this novel, a suburban dad accidentally contributes to a fatal accident, and tries to hide his actions.  By ELLIS COSE
Reviewed by RICHARD THOMPSON FORD A journalist draws on interviews to trace the evolution of race relations in the post-civil-rights era.  By MUNGO MELVIN
Reviewed by ALEXANDER ROSE A biography of Erich von Manstein, a general who made Hitler's military dreams a reality.  By LAURA KASISCHKE
Reviewed by STEPHEN BURT In a novel and poems, Laura Kasischke considers college ghostlore, mortality and grief through generations.  Crime By MARILYN STASIO Mystery novels by Ruth Rendell, Hakan Nesser, Helen Grant and Conor Fitzgerald. By HIRSH SAWHNEY Novels by Banana Yoshimoto, Marcelo Figueras, Helon Habila and Johanna Skibsrud.  Children's Books By DAV PILKEY
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL The second graphic novel in Dav Pilkey's "Super Diaper Baby" spinoff of his wildly popular "Captain Underpants" series. | Back Page  Essay By TOURE On one side, we had John McPhee against Nabokov. On the other, Martin Amis against David Foster Wallace.  Featuring Louisa Thomas on her book, "Conscience"; and Katie Roiphe on Pamela Haag's "Marriage Confidential." Books News & Features  By DWIGHT GARNER The paperback game - a variation on games with poetry or Bartlett's Familiar Quotations - lets players create their own openings to genre novels. 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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