Complete book coverage for May 2, 2010

Her novels are contemporary noir tales full of jagged, splintered edges.

‘For whatever reason, it felt like I just needed to check back in with this guy,’ Turow says of his new novel ‘Innocent,’ the sequel to his 1987 bestseller.

John Phillip Santos’ explorations of ancestors’ origins takes unusual turns.

A world-renowned biologist turns to fiction in this, his first novel, which describes a youth’s Huck Finn-like life and the wars between several ant colonies.

A man slap’s another couple’s child at a backyard barbecue and all who witnessed it are spurred toward a soulful reckoning.

A new Library of America anthology emphasizes theater as show over theater as art.

The poet, essayist and novelist contemplates the self as wiki.

Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History The Quest to Restore a Working Farm at Vita Sackville-West’s Legendary Garden Adam Nicolson Viking: 342 pp., $27.95 “It was a world that encouraged slowness, detail, attention,” Adam Nicolson writes of his boyhood years at Sissinghurst, the 16th century castle where Vita Sackville-West had her famous garden, from 1930 until her death in 1962.

With the work being adapted into a musical, the author and the actress who starred in the television adaptations revisit the work.

Fiction  1. The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson ($14.95)  2.