Entertainment Weekly reviews Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union, and so does Bookslut.

Entertainment Weekly also reviews Jim Crace's The Pesthouse, this year's entry in the literary-figure-writes-a-depressing-post-apocalyptic-novel sweepstakes.

And The Agony Column also takes a look at Crace's Pesthouse.

The Herald (of Monterey County) reviews Marta Acosta's Midnight Brunch.

Bookslut's "Bookslut in Training" column (by Colleen Mondor, and covering young-adult books) this month examines Mark Del Franco's Unshapely Things, Justine Larbalestier's Magic's Child (also available in the SFBC omnibus The Magic of Reason), and several others. 

Neth Space runs through Stephen Erikson's massive and amazing "Malazan Book of the Fallen" series to celebrate the publication of the seventh book, Reaper's Gale, in the UK. (I'm reading book six, The Bonehunters, right now -- it will be published in the US in September. And all of the previous books -- Gardens of the Moon, Deadhouse Gates, Memories of Ice, House of Chains, and Midnight Tides -- are available from the SFBC. This isn't a series for first-time fantasy readers, but it's a wonderful experience for those who are ready to step up to it.)

And SFF World has the first review of the new Malazan book, Reaper's Gale, that I've seen.

SciFi Weekly reviews Brian W. Aldiss's classic Hothouse (known by some as The Long Afternoon of Earth).

SF Signal reviews Eric Brown's Helix.

Back to Bookslut for a moment: their current "Specfic Floozy" (which I'm afraid I always want to read as Specific Floozy, as if there was a large sea of floozies out there, with only one known in particular) column is given over entirely to a glowing review of Adam Roberts's Gradisil.

Kids Lit reviews George R.R. Martin's novella-as-a-young-adult-book The Ice Dragon.

Bookgasm reviews John Scalzi's The Last Colony.

Solaris reprints a Publishers Weekly starred review for James Maxey's Bitterwood.

Apex Digest reviews Cherie Priest's Dreadful Skin [via the author]