April 2002 |
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Sunday April 28, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Emporium: Stories by Adam Johnson
My Life in Heavy Metal: Stories by Steve Almond
Review by Claire Dederer
The Disappearing Body by David Grand
Review by Will Blythe
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Review by Deborah Mason
The Illuminated Soul by Aryeh Lev Stollman
Review by Nell Freudenberger
Red Dust by Gillian Slovo
Review by Tony Eprile
Baroque-a-Nova by Kevin Chong
Review by King Kaufman
Books in Brief:
Notable American Women by Ben Marcus
Review by Michael Porter
Kate Caterina by William Riviere
Review by Marina Harss
Stay by Nicola Griffith
Review by King Kaufman
All I Could Get by Scott Lasser
Review by Adam Baer
Florida Poems by Campbell McGrath
Review by Andy Brumer
Losing Gemma by Katy Gardner
Review by Amy Benfer
Washington Post Book World
Franklin Flyer by Nicholas Christopher
Review by Glen David Gold
Blood of My Blood by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Review by Margo Hammond
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Review by Kate Lehrer
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukerjee
Review by Lee Siegel
San Francisco Chronicle
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Review by Ken Foster
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Review by John Freeman
Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson
Review by Dave Eggers
Summerhouse, Later by Judith Hermann
Review by Jesse Berrett
Glow in the Dark by Lisa Teasley
Review by Jegg Galipeaux
Philadelphia Inquirer
Red Poppies by Alai
Review by Helen Mitsios
People Die by Kevin Wignall
Review by Deen Kogan
Darkening Water by Daniel Hoffman
Review by Michael Peich
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
Chicago Tribune
Century's Son by Robert Boswell
Review by Sandra Scofield
The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane
Review by Alan Cheuse
Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark
Review by Brigitte Frase
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Review by E. William Smethurst
LA Times
Video by Meera Nair
Review by Marina Budhos
First Fiction:
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
Review by Mark Rozzo
The Haunting of L by Howard Norman
Review by Jonathan Levi
Discoveries:
Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson
Review by Susan Slater Reynolds
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Tuesday April 23, 2002
New York Times
Desirable Daughters by Bharati Mukherjee
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday April 22, 2002
New York Times
Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday April 21, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri
Review by William Deresiewicz
The Haunting of L by Howard Norman
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Ponsot
Review by David Orr
Century's Son by Robert Boswell
Review by Jonathan Dee
Summerhouse, Later: Stories by Judith Hermann
Review by Melanie Rehak
Franklin Flyer by Nicholas Chirstopher
Review by John Biguenet
Bear Me Safely Over by Sheri Joseph
Review by Ann Powers
Unsing Heroes of American Industry by Mark Jude Poirer
Review by Jeff Giles
Washington Post Book World
The Book of Shadows by James Reese
Review by Zofia Smardz
Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
Review by Roxana Robinson
Century's Son by Robert Boswell
Review by Valerie Sayers
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review by Marie Arana
The House on Belle Isle: And Other Stories by Carrie Brown
Review by Alice Elliott Dark
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga by Julia Whitty
Review
The True Sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone
Review by Anneli Rufus
The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman
Review by Alan Cheuse
My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
Review by Drew Cherry
Leash by Jane DeLynn
Review by James Piechota
Excessive Joy Injures the Heart by Elizabeth Harvor
Review by Joanna Smith Rakoff
The Story of Our Lives by Mark Strand
Review by Cunthia Haven
Philadelphia Inquirer
All I Could Get by Scott Lasser
Review by John Freeman
Spies by Michael Frayn
Review by David Walton
Breath in Every Room by Tami Haaland
Review by Joel Weishaus
Chicago Tribune
The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini
Review by William H. Pritchard
The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
The Twentieth Wife by Indu Sundaresan
Stealing the Ambassador by Sameer Parekh
The Wedding by Imraan Coovadia
Video by Meera Nair
Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri
Review by Vanessa Gezari
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Review by Robin Hemley
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez by Jimmy Breslin
Review by Elaine Rivera
LA Times
Franklin Flyer by Nicholas Christopher
Review by Michael Harris
Spies by Michael Frayn
Review by Richard Zimler
Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri
Review by Shashi Tharoor
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Thursday April 18, 2002
New York Times
City of Bones by Michael Connelly
Review by Janet Maslin
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Wednesday April 17, 2002
New York Times
The Character of Rain by Amelie Nothomb
Review by Richard Eder
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Tuesday April 16, 2002
New York Times
Real Time by Amit Chaudhuri
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday April 14, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Review by Walter Kirn
Spies by Michael Frayn
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review by Francine Prose
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
Review by David Willis McCullough
A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Review by Jennifer Egan
Things That Fall From the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier
Review by Hillary Frey
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
Review by Emily Nussbaum
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Review by James Campbell
Books in Brief: Poetry
The Painted Bed by Donald Hall
Review by J.T. Barbarese
The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill
Review by David Barber
Landscape With Human Figure by Rafael Campo
Review by Eric McHenry
Shadow of Heaven by Ellen Bryant Voigt
Review by Ken Tucker
The Evening Sun by David Lehman
Review by Michael Hainey
Homesick by Roger Fanning
Review by David Kirby
Washington Post Book World
The Company by Robert Littell
Review by Patrick Anderson
Spies by Michael Frayn
Review by Alan Furst
Deep in the Shade of Paradise by John Dufresne
Review by Curtis Sittenfeld
At Swim Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Review by Trevor Butterworth
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
The Disappearing Body by David Grand
Review by David Kipen
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review by David Wiegand
Emporium by Adam Johnson
Review by Irina Reyn
Video by Meera Nair
Review by Andrew Roe
Six Kinds of Sky by Luis Alberto Urrea
Review by Dave DeChristopher
Real Times by Amir Chaudhuri
Review by Fionn Meade
Chicago Tribune
The Company by Robert Littell
Review by Alan Cheuse
Casanova in Bohemia by Andrei Codrescu
Review by Brian Bouldrey
Spies by Michael Frayn
Review by Michael Upchurch
My Surburban Shtetl by Robert Rand
Review by Tammie Bob
Philadelphia Inquirer
Chameleon by Mark Burnell
Review by Richard Fuller
Women Made of Sand by Joann Kobin
Review by Michelle Reale
The Fall by J. Bottum
Review by Frank Wilson
The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini
Review by Richard Burgin
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review by Benjamin Austen
Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by Ruth Rendell
Review by Edna Stumpf
LA Times
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Review by Caroline Fraser
Servants of the Map by Andrea Barrett
Review by Thomas Curwen
Journey By Moonlight by Antal Szerb
Review by Lesley Chamberlain
First Fiction:
2182kHz by David Masiel
The Trouble With Catherine by Andres Hruby
The Summer Fletcher Greel Loved Me by Suzanne Kingsbury
Review by Mark Rozzo
My Mother's Island by Marnie Mueller
Review by Adam Hill
The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Michael Harris
Anna in the Afterlife by Merrill Joan Gerber
Review by Merle Rubin
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
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Thursday Apirl 11, 2002
New York Times
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Review by Janet Maslin
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Wednesday April 10, 2002
New York Times
The Haunting of L by Howard Norman
Review by Richard Eder
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Tuesday April 9, 2002
New York Times
Spies by Michael Frayn
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday April 8, 2002
New York Times
Sea Glass by Anita Shreve
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday April 7, 2002
New York Times Book Review
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Review by Caleb Crain
The Return of the Caravels by Antonio Lobo Antunes
Review by Michael Pye
The zygote Chronicles by Suzanne Finnamore
Review by Katherine Dieckmann
Crustaceans by Andrew Cowan
Review by Michael Upchurch
Looking for Chet Baker by Bill Moody
Review by Gene Santoro
Washington Post Book World
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley
The Birthday of the World by Ursula K. Le Guin
Appleseed by John Clute
Review by Gregory Feeley
San Francisco Chronicle
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Review by David Kipen
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Review by Francie Lin
Edinburgh by Alexander Chee
Review by David Wiegand
Wild Ginger by Anchee Min
Review by Heller McAlpin
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez by Jimmy Breslin
Review by Tamara Straus
Interesting Women: Stories by Andrea Lee
Review by Jane Ciabattari
Chicago Tribune
Death and Nightingales by Eugene McCabe
Review by Dan Cryer
The House on Belle Isle by Carrie Brown
Review by Beth Lordan
Philadelphia Inquierer
The Translator by John Crowley
Review by Gregory Feeley
The Pupil by W.S. Merwin
Review by Scott Edward Anderson
LA Times
Never: Poems by Jorie Graham
Review by John Palattella
Red Poppies by Alai
Review by Isabel Hilton
The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman
Review by Yxta Maya Murray
The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini
Review by Kai Maristed
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