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• Jill Lepore: The fight between Henry Luce and Harold Ross.

Henry Luce, who was born in Tengchow, China, used to say he wished he’d been born in Oskaloosa, Iowa. “An American can always explain himself satisfactorily by citing where he comes from,” Luce said. He’d have given anything for a home town in the . . ....

• Books: “The Dead Republic.”

Doyle’s ninth novel, the concluding volume of a trilogy that began with “A Star Called Henry,” chronicles the return to Ireland, after almost thirty years of exile in America, of Henry Smart, a former I.R.A. assassin. The first section, in which Henry works with John Ford . . ....

• Sir Jeffrey Archer – Brilliant Novels and Short Stories

Born in 1940 in London and brought up in Somerset, England, Sir Jeffrey Archer became an MP for Louth at the age of 29 and he left House of Commons in 1974 when most of his investments turned bad and he faced potential bankruptcy. This was precisely the time when Jeffrey Archer turned towards writing and went on to become hugely successful. His latest book, And Thereby Hangs a Tale, has already become a hit with the international readers and is bettering all his past records....

• Books: “Feeding on Dreams” review.

This latest memoir by the Chilean-American author and former Allende adviser resumes the tale of his countless “dislocations” since fleeing Chile, in 1973. Dorfman shuttles among three continents and two languages, adrift in “an eternal victimhood of regret.” The resulting “wrath” may help . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Judith Thurman: High fashion and the American woman.

In the first chapter of “Daisy Miller,” Henry James’s novella of 1878, a priggish American expatriate, Winterbourne, makes the acquaintance of a shameless flirt from Schenectady in the gardens of a Swiss hotel, where he is visiting his aunt, and she is staying with her dyspeptic . . ....

• Books: “God’s Arbiters” review.

From 1898 to 1902, the United States was mired in the Philippines in a guerrilla war so heated it turned Mark Twain into an anti-imperialist and inspired Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden.” Those in favor of annexing the island nation championed the . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Believing Is Seeing” review.

Morris frames these conversational essays as “a collection of mystery stories,” casting himself as a detective charged with investigating the contested reality behind a photograph or set of photographs. He is drawn to documentary images—for example, of the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Depression . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “In the Land of Believers”

When Welch, a Berkeley native who grew up “thinking I was born an atheist the way some people are born Italian,” moved to Virginia for graduate school, she was forced to confront her inherent fear of Evangelicals. The best way to conquer her anxiety, she decided, was to . . ....

• Books: “James Madison.”

One of only two delegates to attend every session of the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Madison transcribed the deliberations. He decided to publish this “most exact account” posthumously, reasoning that “the distance of time like that of space” lends to everything an “attractive” lustre. In . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Verdi’s Shakespeare” review.

In the essays collected here, Wills examines how Verdi—who, though he did not read English, “adored Shakespeare”—composed and staged “Macbeth,” “Otello,” and “Falstaff,” all “solid masterpieces,” and the latter two “arguably the greatest things he . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Wyatt Mason: “The Art of Fielding,” review.

In Chad Harbach’s first novel, “The Art of Fielding” (Little, Brown; $25.99), Henry Skrimshander arrives for his first day at Westish College, a “slightly decrepit liberal arts school on the western shore of Lake Michigan,” with a beat-up copy of a book . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Anthony Lane: M.R. James’s “Collected Ghost Stories.”

The name of Montague Rhodes James is not widely recognized in America, and there will be little fellow-feeling for the world he chose to inhabit. Indeed, it seems as remote as a cold, unvisitable planet, viewed from afar. James was born in southeast England in 1862. His father, Herbert . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Ben Greenman: Shirley Brown’s “Woman to Woman”: Review.

paragraph class="noindent">The soul vocalist Shirley Brown was discovered by Albert King in the early sixties, when she was a teen-ager singing at the Harlem Club in Brooklyn, Illinois. After a decade touring with King, Brown finally made her début as a solo artist with &#8220 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Princess Noire.”

8220;Princess Noire” was the original, unused title of Nina Simone’s autobiography, and Cohodas duly appropriates it for her account of the singer’s life and career. Simone, born Eunice Waymon and nurtured as a child prodigy, devoted her early years to classical piano. After a . . ....

• Hilton Als:  David Henry Hwang’s “Chinglish” review.

First-generation American writers often have two stories to tell. There’s the story of their inspiration and the quest for a discipline to give form to their imaginings. Then there’s a more constricted tale: the arrival myth. How did my parents get here from Hungary or . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Instead of a Letter.”

Athill, now ninety-two years old, won admiration here for her recent memoirs “Stet” and “Somewhere Towards the End,” but this book, one of two earlier memoirs that have now been reissued, shows that her talent has been evident for decades. Supple, frank, unafraid of contradictions . . ....

• Books: “The American Civil War”

This military history finds that our “second revolution” was an improvised and desultory affair, a function largely of the vastness and the variety of nineteenth-century American terrain. It anticipated the First World War, in that it was a “body-count war,” with bloody and inconclusive . . ....

• Race @ Ethel Barrymore Theatre

Ruthlessness of a rhetorical kind is part of the fun of David Mamet’s new play (directed by the author), his latest exercise in contrarian provocation. “Do you know what you can say? To a black man. On the subject of race?” Henry Brown (David Alan Grier), a black lawyer, says to Charles Strickland (Richard Thomas), a rich, white potential client who is accused of raping a black woman. “Nothing,” Charles says. “That is correct,” Henry replies. Henry’s firm has three lawyers—two of them black—which is the reason that Charles...

• John Lahr: Nina Arianda in “Born Yesterday.”

When it was first produced, in 1946, Garson Kanin’s “Born Yesterday” made a star of Judy Holliday, who played Billie Dawn, the bimbo turned bookworm. The splendid new revival, directed by Doug Hughes at the Cort, makes a star of Nina Arianda, in her scintillating Broadway . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Daring Young Men”

8220;The American people will not allow the German people to starve,” Colonel Frank Howley, one of the top American commanders in Berlin, said in June, 1948, after the Soviets cut off all supply routes except an air corridor to the Western sectors of the city. But when the . . ....

• Books: “The Prague Cemetery” review.

This conspiracy-laden historical potboiler is told primarily through diary entries by a master forger and the secret author of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—an anti-Semitic document that was espoused by both Hitler and Henry Ford. There’s plenty of colorful scenery—Italy . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Sometimes There Is a Void” review.

Born into a prominent South African activist family, Mda fled to Lesotho at the age of fifteen to join his father, a radical lawyer living in exile. He went on to become one of the most celebrated playwrights and novelists of the post-apartheid era. In this long and unfailingly . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “Is That a Fish in Your Ear?” review.

This lively survey asks “what translation has done in the past and does today,” and “whether it is one thing or many.” In thirty-two wide-ranging chapters, Bellos variously corrects bits of misguided folk wisdom (Eskimo, it turns out, does not have a hundred words . . . (Subscription required.)...

• James Wood: Teju Cole’s prismatic début novel, “Open City.”

Publishers now pitch their books like Hollywood concepts, so Teju Cole’s first novel, “Open City” (Random House; $25), is being offered as especially appealing to “readers of Joseph O’Neill and Zadie Smith,” and written in a prose that “will remind . . ....

• Anthony Lane: “Clash of the Titans” and “Everyone Else.”

There is an awful lot of clashing in “Clash of the Titans,” but no Titans. A pity, for the real Titans were early-model deities, born of Uranus and Gaea; she, peeved by her husband, took the unusual step of forging what one ancient text describes as &#8220 . . ....

• Hilton Als: Toni Morrison’s “Desdemona,” at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival.

Historically speaking, the stage is a notoriously difficult space for novelists to fill. Henry James is a famous example of a brilliant writer whose dreams of footlight glory were not meant to be. And while Saul Bellow’s “The Last Analysis” is a lovely play, it&#8217 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Goings on About Town: Dance

goatTitle-->AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE As a consolation for the absence of “Romeo and Juliet” from the season’s lineup, fans of Prokofiev will get his syncopated, more jagged “Cinderella.” James Kudelka’s production, first performed by American Ballet Theatre in 2006, has less . . ....

• Sam Tanenhaus: Populism, politics, and the power of Sarah Palin.

The last time the publication of a political memoir aroused as much interest as Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue: An American Life” (Harper; $28.99) was probably in 1995, when Colin Powell’s autobiography, “My American Journey,” came out. Like Palin’s bus . . ....

• Books: “An Infinity of Things.”

In 1913, the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum opened in London. Its founder, the wealthy pharmaceutical pioneer Sir Henry Wellcome, had spent years amassing a collection that reflected “the great history ‘of the art and science of healing,’ ” but the more Wellcome collected the more his museum . . ....

• Books: “Blood’s a Rover”

The final novel of Ellroy’s “Underworld U.S.A.” trilogy, following “American Tabloid” and “The Cold Six Thousand,” is a fittingly crazed and violent account of the years 1968 to 1972. Alternating chapters follow three henchmen with ties to a labyrinth of interconnected schemes . . ....

• American Composers Orchestra: “Louis and the Young Americans” @ Zankel Hall—Carnegie Hall

The post-minimalist master Louis Andriessen has been not only a major European composer for three decades but also a mentor to a raft of North American composers who have travelled to the Netherlands to learn at his feet. The New York première of his “Symphony for Open Strings” begins a concert that also features new or recent works by three protégés, Missy Mazzoli, Michael Fiday (“Gonzo Variations: Hunter S. Thompson in Memoriam”), and John Korsrud; Jeffrey Milarsky conducts. (Zankel Hall. 212-247-7800. April 9 at 7:30.) April 9 Seventh Ave....

• Peter Schjeldahl: “Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda” review.

Anthony Bailey begins “Velázquez and The Surrender of Breda: The Making of a Masterpiece” (Henry Holt; $32) with a crackerjack war story. On March 3, 1590, an innocent-looking riverboat used to transport peat sailed into Breda, a city in the Netherlands that had been . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Joan Acocella: David Gordon’s “Dancing Henry Five.”

David Gordon has always been postmodern dance’s premier minimalist. So you could say he was almost showing off when, in 2004, he took on Shakespeare’s “Henry V”—with its massed armies, its take-charge king, its pretty princess—and made his own . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Books: “The Men Who Would Be King.”

In 1994, Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen announced the creation of the first new Hollywood studio in sixty years. DreamWorks, as the company was later named, was envisioned as “a vast multimedia empire involved in not just live-action and animated movies, television, music, and interactive games . . ....

• David Denby: “The American,” “Heartbreaker,” and “Hideaway.”

In “The American,” a professional assassin (George Clooney) known as Jack, and sometimes as Edward, and sometimes not as anyone, enters a medieval hilltop town in the Abruzzo region of Italy and tries to lie low. In his wariness and his silence, Jack resembles those mysterious gunmen who . . ....

• Books: “The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt.”

Wilkinson, a Cambridge Egyptologist, offers a comprehensive history of ancient Egypt, from prehistoric climate change to the death of Cleopatra, in 30 B.C. Most modern historians, he argues, have romanticized the grandeur of ancient Egypt, and, as a corrective, he focusses on the brutal subjugation in the Old Kingdom (2575-2125 . . . (Subscription required.)...

• Joan Acocella: Why do people love Stieg Larsson’s novels?

Having got American readers to buy more than fourteen million copies, collectively, of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy books—“The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” (2008, American edition), “The Girl Who Played with Fire” (2009), and “The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet&#8217 . . ....

• Books: “Emma Goldman” review.

Gornick’s arresting portrait of the anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940), whom J. Edgar Hoover called “the most dangerous woman in America,” is less a political history and more an illumination of “the existential drive behind radical politics.” Goldman, a Russian immigrant who taught herself English . . . (Subscription required.)...