FICTION NOAH’S COMPASS by Anne Tyler (Knopf Doubleday, 288 pp., $25.95) In Anne Tyler’s 18th novel, the unexceptional Liam Pennywell, a widowed schoolteacher, loses his job one day and wakes up in a hospital the next, with no recollection of the experience. Post-injury, he struggles with memory loss and learns to love. (Scheduled to be [...]