No Joke: Making Jewish Humor by Ruth R. Wisse (Princeton University Press, hardcover) "Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. ...Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius of spontaneous Jewish joking...as well as the briliance of comic masterworks by writers like Heinrich Heine, Sholem Aleichem, Isaac Babel, S.Y. Agnon, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and Philip Roth..."

Jewish Jocks: An Unorthdox Hall of Fame, edited by Franklin Foer and Marc Tracy (Twelve hardcover) featuring Steven Pinker on Red Auerbach, David Remnick on Howard Cosell, Jane Leavy on Sandy Koufax, Jonathan Safran Foer on Bobby Fischer, Buzz Bissinger on Barney Ross, Simon Schama on Daniel Mendoza and many more...

Philip Roth, Novels 2001-2007, The Library of America's definitive (hardcover) edition of the author's collected works continues with the novels written in his late sixties and early seventies: The Dying Animal, The Plot Against America, and Exit Ghost.