Claire Messud
Claire Messud's most recent novel is The Emperor’s Children. Her earlier novels include When the World Was Steady. (December 2009)
From the Review
December 3, 2009: In Evin Prison
My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran by Haleh Esfandiari
October 22, 2009: Come Rain, Come Shine
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
July 16, 2009: Land Divers
May 28, 2009: Aiming to Please
Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
November 20, 2008: Witnesses to a Mystery
Home by Marilynne Robinson
July 17, 2008: Blood Relations
The Plague of Doves by Louise Erdrich
February 14, 2008: Signs of Struggle
Cheating at Canasta by William Trevor
July 19, 2007: When Life Caught Up With Him
Be Near Me by Andrew O'Hagan
January 11, 2007: A Case of Development
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
May 11, 2006: The Way We Lived Then
The Last of Her Kind by Sigrid Nunez
May 9, 2002: Fairy Tale in Reverse
Stolen Lives: Twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir, with Michèle Fitoussi, translated from the French by Ros Schwartz
October 19, 1995: Heartburn
The Love Letter by Cathleen Schine
Books by Claire Messud
The Last Life (1999)
When the World Was Steady (1995)