Bennett, Alan, The Uncommon Reader: A Novella (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2007).
Jones, Lloyd, Mister Pip: A Novel (New York: The Dial Press, 2007).
Martin, Valerie, Trespass (New York: Doubleday, 2007).
Murr, Naeem, The Perfect Man: A Novel (New York: Random House Tradeback Original, 2007).
Nemirovsky, Irene, Fire in the Blood: A Novel translated from the French by Sandra Smith ((New York: Knopf, 2007).
Patchett, Ann, Run: A Novel (New York: Harper, 2007).
Roth, Philip, Exist Ghost (Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2007) (“’Reading/writing people, we are finished, we are ghosts witnessing the end of the literary era….’” Id. at 186.).
Roth, Philip, Zuckerman Bound: A Trilogy and Epilogue 1979-1985: The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound, The Anatomy Lesson, The Prague Orgy (New York: Library of America, 2007).
Russo, Richard, Bridge of Sighs (New York: Knopf, 2007) ("It was human nature, she explained. You don’t identify with people worse off than you are. You make your deals, if you can, with those who have more, because you hope one day to have more yourself. Understand that, she claimed, and you understand America, not just Thomaston.” Id. at 11.).
Seiffert, Rachel, Afterwards: A Novel (New York: Pantheon, 2007).
Stasiuk, Andrzej, Nine: A Novel translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston (New York: Harcourt, 2007).
Vassanji, M. G., The Assassin’s Song: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2007).
Vassanji, M. G., The In-Between World of Vikram Lall: A Novel (New York: Knopf, 2004).
Ages ago, at my first-year law school orientation, my classmates were told "If you only know the law, then you do not know the law at all." I took the words to heart as I made my way through law school, through law practice and, now, into law teaching. The Cosmopolitan Lawyer lists readings, many non-law, which are influencing my thinking about law. It is my effort to be, and to encourage others to be, more cosmopolitan--and, thus, less parochial--in thinking about law.