“L uminous Airplanes ,” Paul La Farge’s third novel, invites readers to get lost in the memoir of a young man getting lost writing a memoir. Somewhere between “ On the Road ” (wanderlust and absent fathers) and “ A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius ” (tidal earnestness and relentless self-examination), La Farge pitches his never-ending story of a young man’s return from Dot-Com-boom San Francisco to Thebes, N.Y., a town in the remote Cats­kills. He’s come home to sort through his late grandfather’s effects and a tangled family history. Read full article > >

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‘Luminous Airplanes,’ by Paul La Farge

The top White House counterterrorism adviser said Sunday that American authorities believe now that the two bombs found inside cargo packages were designed to blow up the airplanes carrying them.

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