April 2000 |
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Sunday April 30, 2000
New York Times Book Review
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Review by Anthony Quinn
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
Review by Tony Earley
Don't the Moon Look Lonesome by Stanley Crouch
Review by James Campbell
Every Day is Mother's Day by Hilary Mantel
Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel
Review by Kathryn Harrison
Music & Silence by Rose Tremain
Review by Michael Upchurch
The Spirit Cabinet by Paul Quarrington
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
Rails Under My Back by Jeffrey Renard Allen
Review by Stephen Donadio
Pillars of Gold by Alice Thomas Ellis
Review by Sarah Ferguson
Books in Brief:
Caesar: The Life Story of a Panda Leopard by Patrick O'Brian
Hussein by Patrick O'Brian
Review by Londa Barrett Osborne
God Bless You, Dr. Kevorkian by Kurt Vonnegut
Review by David L. Ulin
Women in Evidence by Sebastien Japrisot
Review by Liza Featherstone
Ray in Reverse by Daniel Wallace
Review by Barbara Sutton
The Ledge by Michael Collier
Review by Brian Henry
Washington Post
Le Mariage by Diane Johnson
Review by Nina Page
Polly's Ghost by Abby Frucht
Review by Judith Rosen
Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
Review by Shashi Tharoor
Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez
Kitty & Virgil by Paul Bailey
Review by Denise Gess
Destiny by Tim Parks
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francsico Chronicle
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Review by Floyd Skloot
Harry Gold by Millicent Dillon
Review by Theodore Roszak
The Dumbbell Nebula by Steve Kowit
Listening to Winter by Molly Fisk
Review by Sheila Farr
Two Moons by Thomas Mallon
Review by Paul Skenazy
LA Times
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
Review by Jonathan Levi
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Review by Pam Houston
Discoveries:
Destiny by Tim Parks
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Philadelphia Inquirer
Tiepolo's Hound by Derek Walcott
Review by Justin D. Coffin
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
Review by Jill P. Capuzzo
St. Louis Post Dispatch
O.K.: The Corrall, The Earps, and Doc Holliday by Paul West
Review by Allen Barra
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Tuesday April 25, 2000
New York Times
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday April 24, 2000
New York Times
Music by Rose Tremain
Review by Richard Eder
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Sunday April 23, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Review by Jonathan Wilson
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Review by Jim Shepard
Lightning on the Sun by Robert Bingham
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
The Running Mate by Joe Klein
Review by Erik Tarloff
Shopping by Gavin Kramer
Review by Francine Prose
Books in Brief:
Making Love to the Minor Poets of Chicago by James Conrad
Review by Gardner McFall
The Inland Sea by Steven Varni
Review by Rob Strout
The Dreamhouse by Tom Sleigh
Review by David Kirby
American Skin by Don De Grazia
Review by Jonathan Miles
Living is What I Wanted: Last Poems by David Ignatow
Review by Matthew Flamm
Summer Gone by David MacFarlane
Review by Katherine Wolf
Washington Post Book World
In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Fiction:
American Skin by Don De Grazia
A Trick of Nature by Suzanne Matson
Sunday You Learn How To Box by Bil Wright
When My Sister Was Cleopatra Moon by Frances Park
The Doctor by Patricia Duncker
Review by Scott Morris
Phildelphia Inquirer
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Review by Roland Merullo
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Review by Susan Balee
Do Unto Others by Kristin Lattany
Review by Holly Bass
San Francisco Chronicle
Gambler's Rose by G.W. Hawkes
Review by Ron Franscell
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Andrew X. Pham
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
Review by Erik Tarloff
The Chivalry of Crime by Desmond Barry
Review by Ron Franscell
In The Fall by Jeffrey Lent
Review by Erin McGraw
LA Times
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow
Review by Jonathan Levi
First Fiction:
The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
Lost Geography by Charlotte Bacon
Use Me by Elissa Schappell
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Sunday April 16, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Le Mariage by Diane Johnson
Review by Angeline Goreau
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
Review by Lorna Sage
Saving Agnes by Rachel Cusk
Review by Elizabeth Bleick
Fay by Larry Brown
Review by Albert Molilio
The Waters of Babylon by David Stevens
Review by David Sacks
A Sort of Homecoming by Robert Cremins
Review by Daniel Handler
Angels Go Naked by Cornelia Nixon
Review by Beverly Gologorsky
Mummy's Legs by Kate Bingham
Review by Ann Harleman
Books in Brief: Poetry:
Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur
Review by David Kirby
Erotikon by Susan Mitchell
Review by Melanie Rehak
Of No Country I Know by David Ferry
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
Midnight Salvage by Adrienne Rich
Review by Matthew Flamm
Selected Early Poems by Charles Simic
Review by Adam Kirsch
Washington Post Book World
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Review by Wendy Smith
War Boy by Keif Hillsbery
Review by Rick Whitaker
Dating Big Bird by Laura Zigman
Review by Laurie Foos
San Francisco Chronicle
Deus Lo Volt; A Chronicle of the Crusades by Evan S. Connell
Review by Jim Paul
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Review by Mark Luce
Mr. Phillips by John Lancaster
Review by Erik Tarloff
North Street by Jonathan Galassi
Review by Cynthia Haven
Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs
Review by Alan M. Jalon
Dream of Venus (Or Living Pictures) by Miles Beller
Review by Kevin Berger
Altar Music by Christin Lore Weber
Review by Julia Park Rodrigues
Nothing But the Truth by John Lescroat
Review by Carla Norton
Philadelphia Inquirer
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Daisy Fried
66 Laps by Leslie Lehr Spirson
Review by Jennifer Reynolds
The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan
Review by Justin D. Coffin
LA Times
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Big Hunger; Stories 1932-1959 by John Fante
Review by Fred Gardaphe
Discoveries:
Take the Cannoli; Stories from the New World by Sarah Vowell
Shadow Baby by Alison McGhee
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Fay by Larry Brown
Review by Harry Levins
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Sunday April 9, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien
Review by Brooke Allen
Use Me by Elissa Schappell
Review by Cathleen Schine
The Blue Bedspread by Raj Kamal Jha
Review by Akash Kapur
Jersey Rain by Robert Pinsky
Review by Adam Kirsch
Mondo Desperado; A Serial Novel by Patrick McCabe
Review by Dean Albarelli
Bruised Hibiscus by Elizabeth Nunez
Review by Jana Giles
Books in Brief:
Period by Dennis Cooper
Review by Andrew Santell
O.K.; The Corral, the Earps, and Doc Holliday by Paul West
Review by Alanna Nash
The Dead Alive and Busy by Alan Shapiro
Review by Michael Hainey
Mrs. Million by Pete Hautman
Review by John D. Thomas
Welcome to Temptation by Jennifer Cruise
Review by Betsy Groban
Dating Big Bird by Laura Zigman
Review by Lori Leibovich
Washington Post Book World
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Review by Steven Moore
Two Moons by Thomas Mallon
Review by Katherine Weber
Meely La Bauve by Ken Wells
Review by Lev Raphael
Mr. Phillips by John Lancaster
Review by Michael Dirda
Siam, or The Woman Who Shot a Man by Lily Tuck
Love Life by Zeruya Shalev
The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio Tabucchi
The Frog Prince by Stephen Mitchell
Review by Roland Merullo
San Francisco Chronicle
Horse Heaven by Jane Smiley
Review by Debra Spark
Being Dead by Jim Crace
Review by Carey Harrison
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Brian Bouldrey
Purgatorio by Dante; A New Verse Translation by W. S. Merwon
Review by Cynthia L. Haven
Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien
Review by Kate Phillips
Mondo Desperado by Patrick McCabe
Review by James Sullivan
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
Review by Cameron Stracher
Glyph by Percival Everett
Review by Seth Lobdell
The Inland Sea by Steven Varni
Review by Cathryn Alpert
LA Times
Mr. Phillips by John Lancaster
Review by Thomas Lynch
Ladysmith by Giles Foden
Review by Jonathan Levi
First Fiction:
Aloha, Mr. Lucky by Corzson Hirschfeld
Like Normal People by Karen E. Bender
How It Was For Me by Andrew Sean Greer
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
Wild Decembers by Edna O'Brien
The Train Now Departing by Martha Grimes
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Wild December by Edna O'Brien
Review by Jamieson Spencer
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