April 2006 |
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Sunday April 30, 2006
New York Times Book Review
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
Review by Walter Kirn
Adverbs by Daniel Handler
Review by James Poniewozik
Sinners Welcome by Mary Karr
Saving Daylight by Jim Harrison
Review by David Kirby
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories 1966-2006 by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Cathleen Schine
Chronicle:
Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen
The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
Once Upon a Day by Lisa Tucker
Review by Gregory Cowles
The Big Why by Michael Winter
Review by Ben Markovits
Washington Post Book World
Sigging to America by Anne Tyler
Review by Ron Charles
The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra
The Priest's Madonna by Amy Hassinger
Review by Brigitte Weeks
The Things They Carried by Julia Alvarez
Review by Diana Gabaldon
Genealogy by Maud Casey
Review by Louisa Thomas
Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein
Review by Elinor Lipman
San Francisco Chronicle
Come Together, Fall Apart by Christina Henriquez
Review by June Sawyers
In Persuasion Nation by George Saunders
Review by Charles May
Family and Other Accidents by Shari Goldhagen
Review by Amy Johnson
The Unsettling Stories by Peter Rock
Review by Christopher Bernard
Boston Globe
Suite Francaise by Irene Nermirovsky
Review by Susan Rubin Suleiman
Everyman by Philip Roth
Review by Gail Caldwell
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Wednesday April 26, 2006
New York Times
Everyman by Philip Roth
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Boston Globe
Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein
Review by Julie Wittes Schlack
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Tuesday April 25, 2006
New York Times
Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday April 23, 2006
New York Times Book Review
The Last Witchfinder by James Morrow
Review by Jason Goodwin
The Near Future by Joe Ashby Porter
Review by David Kirby
Poetry Chronicle:
Black Lab by David Young
Look There by Agi Michol
Hapax by A.E. Stallings
Astoria by Malena Morling
Capacity by James McMichael
Strike/Slip by Don McKay
Hometown for An Hour by Jennifer Rose
Poem for the End of Time by Noelle Kocot
Living Things by Anne Porter
The First Inhabitants of Arcadia by Christopher Bursk
Review by Eric McHenry and Joel Brouwer
Elements of Style by Wendy Wasserstein
Review by Caryn James
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
Review by Mark Schone
The Edge of Pleasure by Philippa Stockley
Review by Chelsea Cain
Saving the World by Julia Alvarez
Review by Hillary Frey
Philosophy Made Simple by Robert Hellenga
Review by Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Washington Post Book World
Nowhere Is a Place by Bernice L. McFadden
Review by Rosalyn Stony
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
Review by Ron Charles
English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
Review by Ann Cummins
Alternatives to Sex by Stephen McCauley
Review by Meredith Broussard
East Wind, Rain by Caroline Paul
Review by Linda Burnett
Challenger Park by Stephen Harrigan
Review by Edward Nawotka
The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy
Review by Cynthia L. Haven
Chicago Tribune
We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Sharon Pomerantz
Boston Globe
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Homes
Review by Gail Caldwell
The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo by Peter Orner
Review by Steve Almond
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Sunday April 16, 2006
New York Times Book Review
The Oxford Book of American Poetry: Edited by David Lehman
Review by William Logan
Duches of Nothing by Heather McGowan
Review by Ligaya Mishan
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Review by Nell Freudenberger
Halfway House by Katharine Noel
Review by Taylor Antrim
Whiteman by Tony D'Souza
Review by Wyatt Mason
Washington Post Book World
White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 by Donald Hall
Review by Billy Collins
Dark Wild Realm by Michael Collier
Review by Frances Phillips
Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey
Review by Darryl Lorenzo
Dreaming the End of the War by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Making Peace by Denise Levertov
A Cartography of Peace by Jean L. Connor
Review by Rafael Campo
Poems by Mary Karr
Review by Judith Kitchen
District and Circle by Seamus Heaney
Review by Anthony Cuda
Parallel Play: Poems by Stephen Burt
Review by Jennifer Grotz
The Collected Poems of C.P. Cavafy
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
The Dead Fish Museum by Charles D'Ambrosio
Review by Alan Cheuse
In the Wilderness by Manuel Rivas
Review by Tim Kindseth
The Wonder House by Justine Hardy
Review by Elizabeth Kiem
Book of Sketches by Jack Kerouac
Review by John Freeman
Chicago Tribune
The Lightning Keeper by Starling Lawrence
Review by Kathleen Cambor
Boston Globe
The Janissary Tree by Jason Goodwin
Brandenburg Gate by Henry Porter
Chiefs by Stuart Woods
Review by Ana Mundow
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
Review by Saul Austerlitz
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Friday April 14, 2006
New York Times
This Book Will Save Your Life by A.M. Holmes
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday April 9, 2006
New York Times Book Review
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Review by Paul Gray
Challenger Park by Stephen Harrigan
Review by Thomas Mallon
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
Review by Liesl Schillinger
Seeing by Jose Saramago
Review by Terrence Rafferty
The Messiah of Morris Avenue by Tony Hendra
Review by James Campbell
Brookland by Emily Barton
Review by Christopher Corbett
On Earth: Last Poems and an Essay by Robert Creeley
Review by D.H. Tracy
Daniel Isn't Talking by Marti Leimbach
Review by Eve Conant
Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar
Review by Ken Kalfus
Washington Post Book World
The Royal Ghosts: Stories by Samrat Upadhyay
Review by Wendy Law-Yone
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
Review by Fay Weldon
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Review by Ron Charles
The Minotaur by Barbara Vine
Review by Dannis Drabelle
San Francisco Chronicle
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Review by David Hellman
Dutchess of Nothing by Heather McGowan
Review by Scott Esposito
Dragging the Lake: Poems by Robert Thomas
Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky
High Lonesome: New and Selected Stories by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Alan Cheuse
It's Kind of a Funny Story by New Vizzini
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Chicago Tribune
Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Review by Art Winslow
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Review by Alan Cheuse
Blue Water by A. Manette Ansay
Review by Jessica Treadway
My Latest Grievance by Elinor Lipman
Review by Francesca Delbanco
Boston Globe
The Night Watch by Sarah Waters
Review by Denise Mina
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Friday April 7, 2006
New York Times
The Promise of Happiness by Justin Cartwright
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday April 2, 2006
New York Times Book Review
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whithead
Review by David Gates
Doctors & Nurses by Lucy Ellmann
Review by Liesl Schillinger
The Book About Blanche and Marie by Per Olov Enquist
Review by Francine Prose
The Last Supper by Charles McCarry
Review by Jacob Heilbrun
Brecht's Mistress by Jacques-Pierre Amette
Review by Neil Gordon
Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box by Elizabeth Bishop
Review by David Orr
Washington Post Book World
The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai
Review by Donna Rifkind
A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
Review by Paul Di Filippo
Challenger Park by Stephen Harrigan
Review by Ron Charles
The Brief History of the Dead by Kevin Brockmeier
Review by Andrew Sean Greer
San Francisco Chronicle
The Theater of Night by Albert Rios
Review by Joy Lanzendorfer
Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar
Review by Malena Watrous
Chicago Tribune
Memoirs of a Muse by Lara Vapnyar
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Review by Mary Harris Russell
Apex Hides the Hurt by Colson Whitehead
Review by Beth Kephart
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