Things Fall Apart author Chinua Achebe wins Booker Prize for fiction, beating out Philip Roth and Ian McEwan. The new face of Nigerian literature? Growing up in a house once occupied by famous Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe was "a lovely coincidence", Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie says, but it may have been where she first caught the literary bug. One Hundred Years of Solitude has had 40 years of admiring company. Yet still it stands alone, writes Ilan Stavans.

From The New Yorker, a special issue on Summer Fiction. Philip K. Dick goes legit with Library of America canon. From Dissent, four new novels revisit a particularly tumultuous era of American history: A review of Eat the Document by Dana Spiotta; American Woman by Susan Choi; The Darling by Russell Banks; and The Company You Keep by Neil Gordon. Four thrillers

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