April 2001 |

Sunday April 29, 2001
New York Times Book Review
Crawling at Night by Nani Power
Review by Dwight Garner
Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
Review by Sarah Ferrell
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Review by Anthony Quinn
Morning by W.D. Wetherell
Review by John Leland
The Far Field by Edie Meidav
Review by Barbara Crossette
Books in Brief:
Kinship Theory by Hester Kaplan
Review by Dana Kennedy
We're So Famous by Jaime Clarke
Review by Emily White
The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge
Review by Judith Bolton-Fasman
Somewhere South of Here by William Kowalski
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Thanksgiving by Michael Dibdin
Review by Michael Porter
Fixer Chao by Han Ong
Review by Kera Bolonik
Washington Post Book World
Hotel Honolulu by Paul Theroux
Review by Alan Cheuse
The Hero's Walk by Anitra Rau Badami
Review by Leslie Pietrzyk
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Fighting Gravity by Peggy Rambach
Mouthing the Words by Camilla Gibb
Undercurrents by Frances Fyfield
Coming Back to Me by Caroline Leavitt
Review by John Freeman
San Francisco Chronicle
Sputnik Sweetheart by Haruki Murakami
Review by Francie Lin
Miss Garnet's Angel by Salley Vickers
Review by Martin Rubin
In the Company of Angels by N.M. Kelby
Review by Irina Reyn
Given Sugar, Given Salt by Jane Hirshfield
Review by Carmella Ciuraru
57 Chicago by Steve Monroe
Review by Richard Wallace
Goose Music by Richard Horan
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Chicago Tribune
Inspired Sleep by Robert Cohen
In the Gathering Woods by Adria Bernardi
Death of a Guide by Richard Flanagan
Morning by W.D. Wetherell
Kingdom of Shadows by Alan Furst
Review by Laura Demanski
Authorized Personnel Only by Barbara D'Amato
Review by Linnet Myers
Strange Fire by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Review by Carey Harrison
The Unknown Errors of Our Lives by Chitra Banerjee Divalaruni
Motherland by Vineeta Vijayaraghavan
Review by Zarena Alsami
Kissing the Virgin's Mouth by Donna M. Gershten
Review by Dawn Marlan
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Devil's Oasis by Bartle Bull
Review by Lionel Shriver
Boston Globe
All His Sons: A Novella and Nine Stories by Frederic Raphael
Review by Amanda Heller
Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin
Review by Gail Caldwell
LA Times
The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt
Review by Michael Frank
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Back When We Were Grown-Ups by Anne Tyler
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
The Tether: Poems by Carl Phillips
Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss

Sunday April 22, 2001
New York Times Book Review
Honeymoon and Other Stories by Kevin Canty
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
Famous Woman by Giovanni Boccaccio
Review by Ingrid D. Rowland
Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg
Review by Maria Russo
I, Roger Williams: A Fragment of Autobiography by Mary Lee Settle
Review by Caleb Crain
Ex-Libris by Ross King
Review by Michael Pye
After You'd Gone by Maggie O'Farrell
Review by Maud Casey
Taps by Millie Morris
Review by Richard Eder
Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Review by Margot Livesey
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
Review by Tom Shone
Washington Post Book World
The Collected Stories of Richard Yates
Review by Jonathan Yardley
The Shape of Things To Come by Maud Casey
Review by Judith Warner
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
Review by Sudip Bose
San Francisco Chronicle
Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers
Review by Cynthia Haven
Taps by Willie Morris
Review by Brad Vice
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
Review by Martin Rubin
The Black Madonna by Louisa Ermelino
Review by Mick LaSalle
Cane River by Lalita Tademy
Review by Kyla Wazana
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
Review by Martha Woodall
The Love Artist by Jane Alison
Review by Carlin Romano
Transfigurations: Collected Poems by Jay Wright
Review by Louis Simpson
The Rising Sun by Douglas Galbraith
Review by James Polk
Boston Globe
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
Review by Gail Caldwell
LA Times
The Garden of Secrets by Juan Goytisolo
Review by Douglas Messerli
Discoveries:
Lemon by Lawrence Krauser
Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Chicago Tribune
A Few Corrections by Brad Leithauser
Review by Porter Shreve
American Fuji by Sara Backer
Review by Danielle Svetcov
Carry Me Across the Water by Ethan Canin
Review by John Freeman
The Last Report On the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louis Erdrich
Review by Sandra Scofield
The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
Review by Alan Cheuse
Border Crossing by Pat Barker
Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
Review by Joanne V. Creighton

Sunday April 15, 2001
New York Times
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Review by Colin Harrison
Secret Love by Bart Schneider
Review by Gary Kamiya
Endangered Species by Louis Bayard
Review by Brigitte Frase
A Nurse's Story and Others by Peter Baida
Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
Afterimage by Helen Humphreys
Review by Andrea Barrett
Books in Brief: Poetry
Felt by Alice Fulton
Review by Megan Harlan
Life on Earth by Frederick Seidel
Review by David Kirby
Laugh at the End of the World: Collected Comic Poems by Bill Knott
Review by Ken Tucker
June-Tree: New and Selected Poems, 1974-2000 by Peter Balakian
Review by Susan Shapiro
As For Dream by Saskia Hamilton
Review by Matthew Flamm
The Paintings of Our Lives by Grace Schulman
Review by Melanie Rehak
Washington Post Book World
A Few Corrections by Brad Leithauser
Review by Steven Moore
Frida by Barbara Mujica
Review by Roxanna Robinson
Kissing the Virgin's Mouth by Donna M. Gershten
Review by Lori Tsang
Martyr's Crossing by Amy Wilentz
Review by Tova Reich
The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
Review by Elizabeth Ward
Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston
Review by Carolyn See
Philadelphia Inquirer
Interrogations at Noon by Dana Gioia
Review by Susan Balee
Men Seeking Women: a Short-Story Anthology for the Digital Age
Review by Carlin Romano
San Francisco Chronicle
The Lost Daughter of Happiness by Geling Yan
Review by Ruth Rosen
The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve
Review by Monica Wood
Afterimage by Helen Humphreys
Review by Sarah Coleman
Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston
Review by Roy Parvin
The Far Field by Edie Meidav
Review by Emily Barton
Chicago Tribune
Meteor in the Madhouse by Leon Forrest
Review by Jeffrey Renard Allen
The Far Field by Edie Meidav
Three Apples Fell From Heaven by Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Review by Alan Cheuse
Afterimage by Helen Humphreys
Review by Donna Seaman
LA Times
Discoveries
Honeymoon and Other Stories by Kevin Canty
The Bay of Angels by Anita Brookner
Our Twisted Hero by Yi Munyol
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
First Fiction
The Brutal Language of Love by Alicia Erian
Mouthing the Words by Camila Gibb
Gabriel's Story by David Anthony Durham
Review by Mark Rozzo
The Last Report On the Miracles At Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Review by Thomas Curwen
Boston Globe
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
Review by Anna Mundow
The Last Report On the Miracles At Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Review by John Freeman

Wednesday April 11, 2001
New York Times
Beloved Stranger by Clare Boylan
Review by Richard Eder

Sunday April 8, 2001
New York Times Book Review
The Last Report On The Miracles of Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg
The Gardens of Kyoto by Kate Walbert
Review by Alida Becker
Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
Review by Langdon Hammer
Death of a River Guide by Richard Flanagan
Review by Jennifer Reese
Snow Mountain Passage by James D. Houston
Review by Bruce Barcott
Washington Post Book World
This Is Not a Novel by David Markson
Review by Michael Dirda
Crooked River Burning by Mark Winegardner
Review by Mark Baechtel
A River Out of Eden by John Hockenberry
Review by Bruce Barcott
Salem Falls by Jodi Picoult
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
Troublemaker and Other Saints by Christina Chiu
Review by Todd Kliman
Poetry:
The Shine Poems by Calvin Forbes
Brutal Imagination by Cornelius Eady
Jungle Nights & Soda Fountain Rags by Brian Gilmore
Review by Darryl Lorenzo
San Francisco Chronicle
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Review by Robin Beeman
Fixer Chao by Han Ong
Review by John Freeman
Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Kevin Berger
Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez
Review by Irina Reyn
Pages For You by Sylvia Brownrigg
Review by Katharine Mieszkowski
Philadelphia Inquirer
Bubbles Unbound by Sarah Strohmeyer
Review by Gwen Florio
Her Husband by Luigi Pirandello
Review by Desmond Ryan
Chicago Tribune
The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes
Overnight Float by Clare Munnings
Review by Ron Grossman
The Right Hand of Sleep by John Wray
Review by Jill Laurie Goodman
LA Times
Monstruary by Julian Rios
Review by Thomas McGonigle
Discoveries:
Loverboy by Victoria Redel
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds

Friday April 6, 2001
New York Times
The Last Report On the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Loving Pedro Infante by Denise Chavez
Review by Carolyn See

Thursday April 5, 2001
New York Times
Fixer Chao by Han Ong
Review by Janet Maslin

Sunday April 1, 2001
New York Times Book Review
Mr. Mee by Andrew Crumey
Review by Hilary Mantel
To the Hermitage by Malcolm Bradbury
Review by James Shapiro
Lick Creek by Brad Kessler
Review by Tobin Harshaw
Books in Brief:
Girl Talk by Julianna Baggott
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Fat Bald Jeff by Leslie Stella
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Easy Silence by Angela Huth
Review by Patrick Farrell
The Siege of Isfahan by Jean-Christophe Rufin
Review by Paula Friedman
The Mind Game by Hector Macdonald
Review by Emily White
This Is Not A Novel by David Markson
Review by Laura Miller
Washington Post Book World
Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe
Review by Chris Lehmann
The Peppered Moth by Margaret Drabble
Review by Wendy Smith
Karlmarx.com: A Love Story by Susan Coll
Review by Lisa Zeidner
Spikes by Michael Griffith
Review by John Greenya
San Francisco Chronicle
Emerald Germs of Ireland by Patrick McCabe
Review by Jill Meyers
The Rights of Desire by Andre Brink
Review by Jeff Galipeaux
Interrogations at Noon by Dana Gioia
Review by Allan M. Jalon
Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James
Undercurrents by Frances Fyfield
The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes by Marcel Theroux
Review by David Lazarus
Philadelphia Inquirer
Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Review by Donald Newlove
In Sunlight, in a Beautiful Garden by Kathleen Cambor
Review by Justin Cronin
Chicago Tribune
If 6 Were 9 by Jake Lamar
Review by Natasha A. Tarpley
St. Louis Post Dispatch
The Clothes They Stood Up In by Alan Bennett
Review by Peter Wolfe
LA Times
The Painter of Birds by Lidia Jorge
Review by Jonathan Levi
Turning On The Girls by Cheryl Benard
Review by Naomi Glauberman
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