Books
May, 1983
What Walter Tevis did for pool in his 1959 novel The Hustler he does for chess in The Queen's Gambit (Random House). You don't have to be as obsessive about the game as Tevis is to enjoy this thriller. But if you are, you will be rewarded.•In a new collection of related short stories titled The London Embassy (Houghton Mifllin), Paul Theroux takes his narrator, Spencer Savage, from a post in Malaysia (remember The Consul's File?) to a job in England. And our hero, Spencer, sometimes finds Englan...
