By Benjamin Schwarz

December 2006 Atlantic

TWILIGHT OF THE SUPERHEROES: Stories, by Deborah Eisenberg (FSG)

THE SECRET RIVER, by Kate Grenville (Grove/Atlantic)

ALL AUNT HAGAR’S CHILDREN: Stories, by Edward P. Jones (Amistad)

AFTER THIS: A Novel, by Alice McDermott (FSG)

THE ACCIDENTAL: A Novel, by Ali Smith (Pantheon)

FRAMING THE EARLY MIDDLE AGES: Europe and the Mediterranean, 400–800, by Chris Wickham (Oxford)