Not recommended.

WHYY’s Fresh Air interviews Ron Suskind. Suskind’s book, The Way of the World, alleges criminal behavior in the push for war with Iraq.

In the New York Times, Dwight Garner reviews Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland, “the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we’ve yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell.”

. . .when Mr. Amis writes as a strong, consistent, and unambiguous foe of Islamic extremism, he is bucking the timidly relativist consensus of the British intelligentsia. At a time when even the Archbishop of Canterbury is prepared to see sharia become the law of the land, Mr. Amis’s unequivocal defense of liberal, secular values — of feminism, humanism, skepticism, and democracy — is genuinely brave.

In the New York Sun, Adam Kirsch reviews Martin Amis’s The Second Plane: September 11: Terror and Boredom.

In the Village Voice, Giles Harvey previews Martin Amis’s The Second Plane: September 11, Terror & Boredom.

The London Review of Books has James Meek’s review of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 by Lawrence Wright.