There’s lots of good stuff in this week’s Los Angeles Times Book Review, including Good Man Park on Spook Country, which he compares to William Gaddis’s The Recognitions, a full-fledged geek-centric mystery column from Sarah, and Emily Barton on Mata Hari.

Oh, and there’s some other Ed you might know reviewing Matt Ruff’s Bad Monkeys.

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