This Week’s Hot Reads, January 2, 2012

This week: a satiric novel about the Chinese state, Pico Iyer’s adventures with Graham Greene, the nasty history of Frano-Anglo meddling in the Middle East, thrilling Victorian detective fiction, and a publishing giant’s memoirs.

Josh Dzieza

Published Jan. 3 2012 7:22PM EST 

Josh Dzieza

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