April 2003 |
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Sunday April 27, 2003
New York Times Book Review
Shadow Without a Name by Ignacio Padilla
Review by Barry Unsworth
Middle Earth by Henri Cole
Review by Maureen N. McLane
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
Review by Paul Gray
Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
Review by Jeremy Adler
The Navigation Log by Martin Corrick
Review by Ruth Franklin
101 Reykjavik by Hallgrimur Helgason
Review by Sam Lipsyte
Family History by Dani Shapiro
Review by EMily White
On This Day by Nathaniel Bellows
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Washington Post Book World
Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
Review by Thomas M. Disch
Best Friends by Thomas Berger
Review by Jeffrey Frank
Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
Review by Neil Gordon
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Review by Rob Walker
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray
Review by Tom Miller
The Light of Day by Graham Swift
Review by Howard Norman
Shelter From the Storm by Michael Mewshaw
Review by Caroilyn See
San Francisco Chronicle
Oryx and Crake by Margaret twood
Review by David Kipen
Monkey in the Middle by Josh Pryor
Review by Alex Dolan
The Lost Gold of San Francisco by Michale Castleman
Review by Susan Parker
Chicago Tribune
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
Review by Jean Thompson
The Romantic by Barbara Gowdy
Review by Caroline Leavitt
LA Times
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
Review by Jane Ciabattari
First Fiction:
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies by John Murray
Important Things That Don't Matter by David Amsden
Review by Mark Rozzo
Newsday
Such Sweet Thunder by Vincent O. Carter
Review by Gene Seymour
Stillness and Other Stories by Angela Brkic
Review by John Freeman
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Thursday April 24, 2003
New York Times
Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
Review by Richard Eder
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Wednesday April 23, 2003
LA Times
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
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Tuesday April 22, 2003
LA Times
Waiting for April by Scott M. Morris
Review by Bernadette Murphy
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Sunday April 20, 2003
New York Times Book Review
Actress in the House by Joseph McElroy
Review by Sven Birkerts
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
Ziff: A Life? by Alan Lelchuk
Review by Claire Dederer
Morenga by Uwe Timm
Review by Giles Foden
Such Sweet Thunder by Vincent O. Carter
Review by Whitney Terrell
Books in Brief: Poetry:
Far Side of the Earth by Tom Sleigh
Review by David Orr
Otherhood by Regnald Shepherd
Review by Matthew Flamm
Famous Americans by Loren Goodman
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
Deposition by Katie Ford
Review by Emily Nussbaum
Waxworks by Frieda Hughes
Review by Ken Tucker
Alabanza by Martin Espada
Review by Megan Harlan
A History of Color by Stanley Moss
Review by J.T. Barbarese
Washington Post Book World
Good Faith by Jane Smiley
Review by Donald E. Westlake
All He Ever Wanted by Anita Shreve
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Once Two Heroes by Calvin Baker
Review by Lorenzo Wellington
Set This House in Order by Matt Ruff
Review by Victor LaValle
San Francisco Chronicle
Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
Review by David Kipen
Drift by Manuel Luis Martinez
Review by Christopher Dreher
The Diary of an American Au Pair by Marjorie Leet Ford
Review by Bharti Kirchner
Philadelphia Inquirer
Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe
Review by John Debaun
A Garden of Demons by Edward Hower
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; translated by W.S. Merwin
Review by Karl Kirchwey
The Threee Miss Margarets by Louise Shaffer
Review by Connie Ogle
LA Times
Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
Review by Amy Wilentz
Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe
Review by Kai Maristed
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Thursday April 17, 2003
Newsday
The Immortal Part by Christopher Wakling
Review by Dan Cryer
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Sunday April 13, 2003
New York Times Book Review
Kill Two Birds and Get Stoned by Kinky Friedman
Review by Fannie Flagg
Cosmopolis by Don DeLillo
Review by Walter Kirn
The Coffee Trader by David Liss
Review by Thomas Mallon
Soft Sift by Mark Ford
Review by Albert Mobilio
The Deep; and Other Stories by Mary Swan
Review by Andrea Barrett
A Few Short Notes on Tropical Butterflies: Stories by John Murray
Review by Michael Gorra
The Devil Wears Prada by Lauren Weisberger
Review by Kate Betts
Washington Post Book World
Actress in the House by Joseph McElroy
Review by Steven Moore
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales; Edited by Michael Chabon
Review by James Hynes
Trouble With Girls by Marshall Boswell
Review by Gavin McNett
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer
Review by Marc Nesbitt
Loot by Nadine Gordimer
Review by Jonathan Penner
August Frost by Monique Roffey
Review by Elizabeth Manus
Drift by Manuel Luis Martinez
What Night Brings by Carla Trujillo
Gentlemen of Space by Ira Sher
Judge by Dwight Allen
Review by Martha Bayne
San Francisco Chronicle
Crabwalk by Gunter Grass
Review by Andrew Roe
Embrace by Mark Behr
Review by Martin Rubin
THe Marriage of the Sea by Jane Alison
Review by Kate Washington
Crescent by Diana Abu_jaber
Review by Irina Reyn
Gilgamesh by Joan London
Review by Selina O'Grady
Bump by Diana Wagman
Review by Max Winter
I Am Not Jackson Pollock by John Haskell
Review by Heller McAlpin
Chicago Tribune
Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
Review by Alan Cheuse
Finding Caruso by Kim Barnes
Review by Keith Taylor
McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales
Review by Peter Terzian
Philadelphia Inquirer
Hunger by Elise Blackwell
Review by Carlin Romano
The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill
Review by Frank Wilson
LA Times
Family History by Dani Shapiro
Review by Heller McAlpin
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Friday April 11, 2003
New York Times
The Pieces From Berlin by Michael Pye
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday April 6, 2003
New York Times Book Review
Heredity by Jenny Davidson
Review by Gary Krist
Bay of Souls by Robert Stone
Review by Norman Rush
The Book of Salt by Monique Truong
Review by Christopher Benfy
Getting It Right by William F. Buckley
Review by John B. Judis
The Voice at 3:00 A.M.: Selected Late & New Poems by Charles Simic
Review by David Orr
Books in Brief:
Booneville by Robert Mailer Naderson
Review by Mary Park
Evenings at Five by Gail Godwin
Review by John Hartl
August Frost by Monique Raffey
Review by Kate Bolick
Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss
Review by Simon Leake
Jubilee King: Stories by Jesse Shepard
Review by Adam Baer
The Boy On the Bus by Deborah Schupack
Review by Matthew Flamm
Washington Post Book World
Behindlings by Nicola Barker
Review by keith Gessen
The Wife by Meg Wolitzer
Review by Kera Bolonik
Property by Valerie Martin
Review by Yxta Maya Murray
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Review by Lloyd Rose
The Buzzing by Jim Knipfel
Review by John Freeman
San Francisco Chronicle
The Lamplighter by Anthony O'Neill
Review by Kera Bolonik
Red Ant House: Stories by Ann Cummins
Review by Caroline Leavitt
The Adventures of a Bed Salesman by Michael Kumpfmuller
Review by Danielle Svetcov
The Floating World by Cynthia Gralla
Review by Stephen Lyons
Christopher by Allison Burnett
Review by Andrew Ervin
Chicago Tribune
All OVer Creation by Ruth Ozeki
Review by Donna Seaman
The Cuban Prospect by Brian Shawwer
Ballpark Blues by C.W. Tooke
Review by John Freeman
Philadelphia Inquirer
Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde
Review
The King in the Tree by Steven Millhauser
Review by Lionel Shriver
Starting From Sleep by Charles Martin
Review by George Held
A Memory of War by Frederick Busch
Review by Donald Newlove
LA Times
Any Human Heart by William Boyd
Review by Peter Green
First Fiction:
Paperback Original by William Rhode
Red Ant House by Ann CUmmins
Review by Mark Rozzo
A Ship Made of Paper by SCott Spencer
Review by Michael Harris
Newsday
Wonder When You'll Miss Me by Amanda Davis
Review by Bethany Schneider
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