Best of 2010.

Out with 2009 best-of lists!  In with 2010 best-of anticipation!
Yes, there will be John McPhee.  Thank heavens.

One of my favorite books of the past several years is Rachel Cusk's Arlington Park.  Her newest, The Bradshaw Variations, appears in April.

Next May, when you start to hear of Evgenia Citkowitz's gorgeous, ugly, funny, serious Ether, you will think, "Where have I heard of this book before?"  You will remember that the novella of the title begins like this: 

They met at a nice...