Notes from the book closet on new and forthcoming titles that caught our eye.
The season of big novels is upon us. Out this month are Ian McEwan’s “The Children Act” (Nan A. Talese), on September 9th, about a high-court judge trying the case of a teen-age Jehovah’s Witness whose parents refuse to allow him to receive possibly life-saving blood transfusions; Martin Amis’s “The Zone of Interest” (Knopf), on September 30th, which follows two Nazi officers and a Jewish Sonderkommando in the fictionalized Auschwitz that also served as the setting of Amis’s 1991 novel, “Time’s Arrow”; and David Mitchell’s time-leaping, über-interconnected “The Bone Clocks” (Random House), on September 2nd, which James Wood reviews in this week’s magazine. Hilary Mantel also returns with a book of short stories, “The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher” (Henry Holt), on September 30th. Here are some other new titles to look for:
