Original, Curious, Appealing: Adventure Cunningly Diagrammed

Chuck Dugan Is AWOL: A Novel with Maps, by Eric Chase Anderson. Chronicle Books, 223 pages, $19.95.

If you’re nostalgic for the days when talk of the military brought to mind images of derring-do and not the black-hooded figures of Abu Ghraib, you’ll cotton to Eric Chase Anderson’s sweet boy’s adventure tale, Chuck Dugan Is Read More

Wes Anderson’s Dream House

With Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow and Bill Murray to house, the only thing holding back director Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums was a roof for his clan of onetime prodigies. After weeks of combing the city, he found a house in Harlem in need of revival. Then, reports TOM MCGEVERAN, the house became Read More