IN SHORT

Jim Robbins tracks the mission of The Man Who Planted Trees (Spiegel & Grau). Rosecrans Baldwin laments,

Paris, I Love You but You're Bringing Me Down (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Novelist Wiley Cash debuts in A Land More Kind than Home (Morrow). Max Hastings leads a photographic tour of The Faces of World War II (Octopus). Leslie Maitland re-unites war-torn lovers in Crossing the Borders of Time (Other Press). Frank Deford turns memoirist in Over Time (Atlantic Monthly Press). Jules Feiffer draws his life Backing into Forward (University of Chicago). Timothy Noah charts The Great Divergence (Bloomsbury) in America's class system. Herta Muller'sThe Hunger Angel (Metropolitan) is set in a Soviet labor camp. Penny Vincenzi courts scandal in More than You Know (Random House). Adriana Trigiani cobbles together The Shoemaker's Wife (Harper). Lynne Curry'sPure Beef (Running Press) is a choice cut. Simon Mawer swings in Trapeze (Other Press). Dan Rather self-reports in Rather Outspoken (Grand Central). Susan Sontag's notebooks and journals, 1964-80, are published in As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (Farrar, Straus and Giroux). Christopher Buckley is rib-crackingly funny in They Eat Puppies, Don't They? (Twelve). Peter Kaminsky argues for Culinary Intelligence (Knopf).