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ANATHEM, by Neal Stephenson (Harper Perennial, $16.99.) Set in a world similar but not identical to our own, ''Anathem'' imagines a monastic order whose members contemplate issues of math, physics and philosophy, and live their lives without electronic technology. But Stephenson's hero, an ascetic named Erasmas, and his order are called back into the world to save civilization from an extraterrestrial crisis. Stephenson ''delights in the language and etymology he has designed for his fictional world . . . and in the 7,000 years of detailed history he has given it,'' Dave Itzkoff wrote in the Book Review. MY PAPER CHASE: True Stories of Vanished Times, by Harold Evans (Back Bay/Little, Brown, $16.99.) Evans, who has served as the editor of The Sunday Times of London and The Times of London, recalls his ascent in a swashbuckling era of British journalism: from his first exposure at age 16 to his championing of investigative journalism that, among other things, exposed the Soviet spy Kim Philby and achieved justice for the deformed child victims of the drug thalidomide. (In a busy second act, Evans became an executive at the Atlantic Monthly Press, U.S. News & World Report, Conde Nast Traveler and Random House.) ''My Paper Chase'' ''celebrates bygone glories and dwells on the truths of good journalism that still obtain,'' our reviewer, David Carr, wrote. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews books such as "A Land More Kind Than Home" by Wiley Cash, "Paper Trails: True Stories of Confusion, Mindless Violence, and Forbidden Desires: A Surprising Number of Which Are Not About Marriage" by Pete Dexter, and "In One Person" by John Irving.

The article reviews the book "The Marlowe Papers" by Ros Barber.

The article reviews the book "Giving Up the Ghost: A Story About Friendship, 80s Rock, a Lost Scrap of Paper, and What It Means to Be Haunted," by Eric Nuzum.

ROCK PAPER TIGER By Lisa Brackmann [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE POPULARITY PAPERS Research for the Social Improvement and General Betterment of Lydia Goldblatt and Julie Graham-Chang [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE WOMEN, by T. C. Boyle (Penguin, $16.) Love, not architecture, is the focus of Boyle's novel about Frank Lloyd Wright. Boyle views his protagonist through the lens of his messy relationships with women and divides his story into sections corresponding to Wright's major romances. In the Book Review, Joanna Scott praised the novel as a ''powerful new chapter'' of Boyle's ''hilarious and terrifying fictional history of utopian longing in America,'' a ''mesmerizing story of women who invest everything, at great risk, in . . . Wright.'' THE MERCY PAPERS: A Memoir of Three Weeks, by Robin Romm. (Scribner, $13.) This ''furious blaze of a book,'' as our reviewer, Leah Hager Cohen, described it, explores Romm's anguish over her 56-year-old mother's impending death from breast cancer. Romm writes with ''fresh and uncompromising'' prose, ''fearless, scathing honesty'' and magnetic anger, Cohen said. Death also shadows Diana Athill's SOMEWHERE TOWARDS THE END: A Memoir(Norton, $13.95), but she contemplates its approach from the perspective of a long life. A celebrated London editor, Athill, now 92, speaks gracefully and with good cheer about the losses and gains of old age. Life, she concludes, is ''amazingly capacious.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

MY PAPER CHASE True Stories of Vanished Times [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE MERCY PAPERS: A Memoir of Three Weeks, by Robin Romm. (Scribner, $22.) Romm's fury over her mother's cancer is magnetic, with the power both to repel and to attract, and in this blaze of a book, it is transformed into an instrument for pursuing truth. SOMEBODY: The Reckless Life and Remarkable Career of Marlon Brando, by Stefan Kanfer. (Knopf, $26.95.) The first serious Brando biography since his death includes a survey of his posthumous legacy. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PAPER TOWNS By John Green [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reviews several books including "Circling My Mother," by Mary Gordon, "The Bloodstone Papers," by Glen Duncan, and "India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy," by Ramachandara Guha.

The article reviews the book "The Bloodstone Papers," by Glen Duncan.

This article reviews the book "The House of Paper," by Carlos Maria Dominguez, translated by Nick Caistor.

Reviews the books "Music of the Mill," by Luis J. Rodriguez, and "The People of Paper," by Salvador Plascencia.

Reviews the fiction book 'A Ship Made of Paper,' by Scott Spencer.

Reviews the book 'The Art of Money: The History and Design of Paper Currency From Around the World,' by David Standish.

Reviews the book 'False Papers,' by Andre Aciman.

Reviews the book, 'A Conspiracy of Paper,' by David Liss.

Reviews the book 'The Plato Papers: A Prophecy,' by Peter Ackroyd.

The article reviews books such as "Songs in the Key of Los Angeles" edited by Josh Kun, "The Magic of M. C. Escher," and "Art Made From Books: Altered, Sculpted, Carved, Transformed" by Laura Heyenga.

Reviews the book `The Picasso Papers,' by Rosalind E. Krauss.

Reviews the book `New Federalist Papers: Essays in Defense of the Constitution,' by Alan Brinkley, Nelson W. Polsby and Kathleen M. Sullivan.

Reviews the novel `The Puttermesser Papers,' by Cynthia Ozick.

Reviews the book `The Paper Trail: A Recollection of Writers,' by Dorothea Straus.

Reviews the book `Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things,' by Leah Hager Cohen.

Reviews the book `Paper Wings,' by Marly Swick.

Reviews the novel `The Paper Wife,' by Linda Spalding.

Reviews the book `The Last Pumpkin Paper,' a preposterous thriller including Richard Nixon and inspired by the real Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers espionage case, by Bob Oeste.

Reviews the book `The Paper Princess,' written and illustrated by Elisa Kleven.

Reviews the book `Paper Trail: Essays,' by Michael Dorris.

Reviews the book `Scissors, Paper, Rock,' by Fenton Johnson.

Reviews two non-fiction books written by Frank Spencer. 'Piltdown: A Scientific Forgery'; 'The Piltdown Papers 1908-1955: The Correspondence and Other Documents Relating to the Piltdown Forgery.' INSET: The Road to Piltdown, by Sarah Boxer.

Reviews `Right Places, Right Times: Forty Years in Journalism Not Counting My Paper Route,' an autobiography by Hedley Donovan.

Reviews critic J.D. McClatchy's `White Paper: On Contemporary American Poetry', an assessment of recent style and trends.

Book review. `The Anna Papers,' by Ellen Gilchrist, describes the last days of writer Anna Hand. Attitude towards the world; Anna as an idealized character.

Reviews the book 'Double Fold,' by Nicholson Baker.

That keening voice you hear in THE SCARECROW (Little, Brown, $27.99) belongs to a Michael Connelly you may not know -- not the best-selling author riding high on his 20th novel, but the newspaper guy who started out covering the crime beat for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and went on to become a top crime reporter for The Los Angeles Times. That voice was a lot cockier in ''The Poet,'' the 1996 thriller in which Connelly introduced Jack McEvoy, a hotshot Denver newsman who parlays a much too personal encounter with a poetry-spouting serial killer into a best-selling book and a ride out of town to a bigger paper. Here, the voice is considerably more subdued and more than a little desperate, as Jack, who has just been pink-slipped at The Los Angeles Times, latches on to another psycho as his professional meal ticket, envisioning one last great story before The Times, if not the entire newspaper industry, goes down in flames. Connelly, who has the nerve and timing of a whole SWAT team, gives Jack two weeks to find the creep who's been raping and killing attractive long-legged women and dumping their remains in car trunks -- if his young replacement doesn't beat him to the story. But this ambitious upstart is too lovely and leggy for her own good, and the smart money's on Jack. To make the story sexier, Jack picks up a partner -- Rachel Walling, the supersmart F.B.I. agent who jeopardized her career for him in ''The Poet.'' These two follow the Internet trail of identity theft, pornography Web sites, electronic surveillance and industrial sabotage right to its source, a vast data processing and storage operation known as ''the farm'' and protected by a certain mastermind known as the Scarecrow. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Reviews the autobiography `Personal History,' by Katharine Graham.

Reviews the book `Pop Internationalism,' by economist Paul Krugman.

The article reviews several books including "The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things," by Paula Byrne, "10th of December: Stories," by George Saunders, and "Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City, a WWII Spy & a True Story of Deadly Adventure (Book)," by Christopher S. Stewart.

CHINA IN TEN WORDS By Yu Hua.Translated by Allan H. Barr [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MORNING MIRACLE Inside The Washington Post: A Great Newspaper Fights for Its Life [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WAR AT THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Inside the Struggle to Control an American Business Empire [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE IMPERFECTIONISTS By Tom Rachman [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

AMERICAN RADICAL The Life and Times of I. F. Stone [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]