Reader's Digest

11.9.2011

By Out.com Editors

A singular syllabus from persons of note.

The Lazarus Project (Riverhead), Aleksandar Hemon

"I was knocked out by this gripping account of a contemporary Bosnian in Chicago trying to sort out a hundred-year-old story of one of his countrymen who was mistaken for a dangerous anarchist and shot to death by the city's police chief. Hemon knows how to make every paragraph he writes utterly absorbing."—Edmund White