Questions of Identity
“This isn’t as warm and fuzzy as those earlier books,” Charles Baxter comments, somewhat ruefully, about his latest novel, The Soul Thief (Pantheon, Feb.), as we eat lunch in a trendy Minneapolis restaurant above the Walker Art Center. “But these are dark times,” he insists, as we enjoy a bird’s-eye view of the city’s gleaming skyscrapers from the restaurant’s soaring wi…