Party like it's 1988

What to read in September

The return of voodoo economics

"One Man's Bible" by Gao Xingjian

"The Autograph Man" by Zadie Smith

"Things You Should Know" by A.M. Homes

"After the Quake" by Haruki Murakami

Tribal Area dance

Joe Conason's Journal

Letters

The Kurdish dilemma

"In Praise of Love"

Letters

Literary daybook, Sept. 6

"City by the Sea"

The fog of "war"

Mr. Spock's nudes

Classroom karaoke

Ask the pilot

U.S. airstrike near Asadabad