New Book Roundup

The Many Faces of Islam
In Tahmima Anam's impressive debut novel, A Golden Age, a widow struggles to keep her family safe in Dhaka during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence from Pakistan. Penguin Classics this month reissues for the first time in paperback in the U.S. Wilfred Thesiger's The Marsh Arabs, a legendary account of his 1950s travels in Iraq's little-known southern Marshlands, with a new introduction by New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson.