THE SHIPWRECKED (244 pp.)—Graham Greene—Viking ($3). In 1935 a little-known English writer published his seventh novel, England Made Me. The critics brushed it off with mild praise; a writer whose ...

Mewshaw, whom the longtime NPR book commentator Alan Cheuse once called “the best novelist in America nobody knows,” mentions both of these books in his memoir. In writing about Iyer’s book, Mewshaw ...