August 2001 |
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Sunday August 26, 2001
New York Times Book Review
I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly by Mary Ladd Gavell
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956 by Garrison Keillor
Review by Malcolm Jones
The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction by Elizabeth Spencer
Review by Molly Haskell
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Review by John Vernon
The Salt Letters by Christine Balint
Review by Nora Krug
Spectacular Happiness by Peter D. Kramer
Review by Jodi Kantor
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
Review by Suzanne Ruta
Babe in Paradise by Marisa Silver
Review by Bernard Cooper
Books in Brief:
Dogwalker: Stories by Arthur Bradford
Review by Rob Walker
Edgewater Angels by Sandro Meallet
Review by Katherine Dieckmann
Filthy Rich by Dorothy Samuels
Review by Betsy Groban
The Court of Common Pleas by Alexandra Marshall
Review by Limberly B. Marlowe
Errors in the Script: Poems by Greg Williamson
Review by Melanie Rehak
Juno & Juliet by Julian Gough
Review by William Ferguson
Washington Post Book World
Little America by Henry Bromell
Review by Lorraine Adams
Two Women by Marianne Fredrikkson
Review by Audrey C. Foote
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things by J.T. LeRoy
Review by G. Beato
The Slected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
Review by Alice K. Turner
Fiction:
Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
A Secret for Julia by Patricia Sagastizabal
The Red Moon by Kuwana Haulsey
Azarel by Karoly Pap
As Night Follows Day by Peirre Moinot
Review by Elizabeth Roca
San Francisco Chronicle
Arresting God in Kathmandu by Samrat Upadhyay
Review by Tamara Straus
No Word of Farewell; Selected Poems 1970-2000 by R.S. Gwynn
Review by Allan M. Jalon
Second Thyme Around by Katie Fforde
Review by Heller McAlpin
Soledad by Angie Cruz
Review by Dodie Bellamy
Twelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist by Jo Soares
Review by Jacob Molyneux
Jeremy Thrane by Kate Christensen
Review by Jonathan Kiefer
Chicago Tribune
Requiem for a Lost Empire by Andrei Makine
Review by Steven G. Kellman
What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
Review by Jennifer Hunt
Troy by Adele Geras
Review by Bella Stander
Fury by Salman Rushdie
Review by Alan Cheuse
I Don't Want to Go to Jail by Jimmy Breslin
Review by Jason Berry
The Columnist by Jeffrey Frank
Review by Noah Isackson
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Selected Stories of Patricia Highsmith
Review by Laurie Kaplan
LA Times
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
Review by Val McDermid
Discoveries:
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
War Story by Gwen Edelman
Junior's Leg by Ken Wells
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Friday August 24, 2001
New York Times
Arresting God in Kathmandu
Review by Samrat Upadhyay
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Wednesday August 22, 2001
New York Times
Bucking the Tiger by Bruce Olds
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Tuesday August 21, 2001
New York Times
London Bridges by Jane Stevenson
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday August 20, 2001
New York Times
Hostage by Robert Crais
Review by Janet Maslin
LA Times
Coldwater by Mardi McConnochie
Review by Merle Rubin
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Sunday August 19, 2001
New York Times Book Review
The Grand Compliction by Allen Kurzweil
Review by D.T. Max
The Hunters by Claire Messud
Review by Miranda Seymour
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason
Review by Walter Kirn
Fairness by Ferdinand Mount
Review by Michael Gorra
The Gourmet Club: A Sextet by Junichiro Tanizaki
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Poetry in Brief:
Different Hours by Stephen Dunn
Review by Emily Nussbaum
How Charlie Shavers Died by Harvey Shapiro
Review by Megan Harlan
The Penultimate Suitor by Mary Leader
Review by Michael Hainey
Landscape with Chainsaw by James Lasdun
Review by Ken Tucker
The Darkness and the Light by Anthony Hecht
Review by David Kirby
Lawrence Booth's Book of Visions by Maurice Manning
Review by Dwight Garner
Washington Post Book World
Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah
Review by Nina King
David's Story by Zoe Wicomb
Review by Anderson Tepper
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Review by Gary Krist
Never Change by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Ann Hood
Towns Without Rivers by Michael Parker
Review by Jack Sullivan
Morning by W.D. Wetherell
Review by Andrew O'Hehir
True Enough by Stephen McCauley
A Man And a Woman and a Man by Savyon Liebrecht
The Red Room by Nicci French
The Artist's Wife by Max Phillips
Junior's Leg by Ken Wells
Review by Deborah Kalb
Chicago Tribune
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Review by Robin Hemley
The Huntsman by Whitney Terrell
Review by Mark Luce
Hope's End by Stephen Chambers
Review by Alan Cheuse
Lit Life by Kurt Wenzel
About the Author by John Colapinto
Review by John Freeman
Doghouse Roses by Steve Earle
Review by Steve Mills
Spectacular Happiness by Peter D. Kramer
Review by Amanda Vaill
The Altar of the Body by Duff Brenna
Honeymooners by Chuck Kinder
Clerical Errors by Alan Isler
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Review by Noah Isackson
San Francisco Chronicle
What You Owe Me by Bebe Moore Campbell
Review by Megan Harlan
The Hunters by Claire Messud
Review by Alan Cheuse
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Review by Sarah Coleman
I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly, and Other Stories by Mary Ladd Gavell
Review by Andrew Roe
Requiem for a Lost Empire by Andrei Makine
Review by Martin Rubin
A Man and a Woman and a Man by Savyon Liebrecht
Review by Sarah Coleman
Loverboy by Victoria Redel
Review by Daniel Akst
Where do We Go From Here by Doris Dorrie
Review by John McMurtrie
What's Come Over You by Marian Thurm
Review by Richard Wallace
Clerical Errors by Alan Isler
Review by Tahl Raz
Mary George of Allnorthover by Lavinia Greenlaw
Review by Claire Splan
Boston Globe
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
Review by Nan Goldberg
Philadelphia Inquirer
Bucking the Tiger by Bruce Olds
Review by Doanld Newlove
LA Times
Edgewater Angels by Sandro Meallet
Review by Thomas Curwen
Discoveries:
Almost by Elizabeth Benedict
I Cannot Tell a Lie, Exactly by Mary Ladd Gavell
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Review by Susan Reynolds
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Thursday August 16, 2001
New York Times
Niagara Fall All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Review by Janet Maslin
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Wednesday August 15, 2001
New York Times
Junior's Leg by Ken Wells
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Sunday August 12, 2001
New York Times Book Review
The Money-Whipped Steer-Job Three-Jack Give-Up Artist by Dan Jenkins
Review by Tobin Harshaw
The Hesperides Tree by Nicholas Mosley
Review by Katharine Weber
According to Queeney by Beryl Baiinbridge
Review by Thomas Mallon
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Review by Francine Prose
The Partnership by Barry Unsworth
Review by Tom Gilling
First Gray, Then White, Then Blue by Margriet de Moor
Review by Neil Gordon
American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley
Review by Aleksandar Hemon
The Red of His Shadow by Mayra Montero
Review by Jana Giles
Books in Brief:
Given Ground by Ann Pancake
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Appointment With Il Duce by Hozy Rossi
Review by William Ferguson
Bucking the Tiger by Bruce Olds
Review by Andrew Santella
Esther's Pillow by Marlin Fitzwater
Review by Erik Burns
A Sky So Close by Betool Khedairi
Review by Michael Maiello
End Over End by Kate Kennedy
Review by Judith Bolton-Fasman
Celebrities in Disgrace by Elizabeth Searles
Review by Andrew Ervin
Washington Post Book World
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
Review by Cristina Nehring
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
Review by Lorraine Adams
Sister Noon by Karen Joy Fowler
Review by Maria Russo
Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Review by David Liss
Niagara Falls All Over Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Review by Carrie Brown
Secret Sanction by Brian Haig
Review by John Greenya
The Gourmet Club by Junichiro Tanizaki
Review by Kunio Francis Tanabe
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
Requiem for a Lost Empire by Andrei Makine
Blue Oxen by Elizabeth Knox
King of the City by Michael Moorcock
On the Water by H.M. van den Brink
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
Boston Globe
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
Review by Gail Caldwell
Smell by Radhika Jha
Flight of the Swan by Rosario Ferre
Review by Barbara Fisher
The Sweetheart Is In by S.L. Wisenberg
Review by Deborah Adelman
San Francisco Chronicle
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
Review by Miriam Wolf
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason
Review by David Wiegand
Tramps Like Us by Joe Westmoreland
Review by Dodie Bellamy
The Book of Leviathan by Peter Blegvad
Review by Chris Lanier
Schooling by Heather McGowan
Review by Francie Lin
Chicago Tribune
Sister Crazy by Emma Richler
All the Finest Girls by Alexandra Styron
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
Philadelphia Inquirer
Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley
Review by Ralph NcInerny
LA Times
The Red of His Shadow by Mayra Montero
Review by Amy Wilentz
Our Lady of the Assassins by Fernando Vallejo
Review by Edmund White
First Fiction
Cat's Meow by Melissa de la Cruz
Process by Kay Boyle
War Story by Gwen Edelman
Review by Mark Rozzo
The Miracle of Edgar Mint by Brady Udall
Review by Zachary Karabell
Life After Death by Carol Muske-Dukes
Review by Regina Marler
The Hunters by Claire Messud
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
Review by Jonathan Levi
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Wednesday August 8, 2001
New York Times
According to Queeney by Beryl Bainbridge
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Tuesday August 7, 2001
New York Times
Lightning Field by Dawn Spiotta
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday August 5, 2001
New York Times Book Review
In the Floyd Archives: A Psycho-Bestiary by Sarah Boxer
Review by M.G. Lord
Among the Missing by Dan Chaon
Review by Beverly Lowry
Yonder Stands Your Orphan by Barry Hannah
Review by Anthony Quinn
Everything You Need by A.L. Kennedy
Review by Richard Eder
Skirts and Slacks: Poems by W.S. DiPiero
True Enough by Stephen McCauley
Review by Louis Bayard
Juniper Tree Burning by Goldberry Long
Review by Louisa Kamps
Washington Post Book World
Honeymooners by Chuck Kinder
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Days of Awe by Achy Obejas
Review by Wendy Gimbel
Shifu, You'll Do Anything For a Laugh by Mo Yan
Review by Judith Shapiro
Meteor in the Madhouse by Leon Forrest
Review by James A. Miller
The Grand Complication by Allen Kurzweil
Review by Michael Dirda
Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley
Review by Mark Gauvreau Judge
San Francisco Chronicle
The Darkness and the Light by Anthony Hecht
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
Bloodlines by Fred D'Aguiar
Review by Allan M. Jalon
Carousel of Progress by Katherine Tanney
Review by Mark Luce
The Buddha Book by Abraham Rodgiguez
Review by Kevin Hunsanger
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
Review by Lionel Shriver
The Voice of the Butterfly by John Nichols
Review by Donald Newlove
Strange Fire by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Review by Robin M. Henry
Electric Light by Seamus Heaney
Review by Desmond Ryan
Boston Globe
Empire Falls by Richard Russo
Review by Bruce Allen
The Hunters by Claire Messud
Review by Gail Caldwell
Chicago Tribune
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight
Review by Donna Seaman
Funny Accent by Barbara Shulgasser-Parker
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal
Smell by Radhika Jha
Bombay Time by Thrity Umrigar
The Hero's Walk by Anita Rau Badami
Review by Avani Patel
The Hunters by Claire Messud
Review by Zarena Aslami
Quakertown by Lee Martin
Review by Sandra Scofield
Elvis in the Morning by William F. Buckley
Review by Robert Schmuhl
LA Times
Babe in Paradise by Marisa Silver
Review by Michelle Huneven
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Zigzagging Down a Wild Trail by Bobbie Ann Mason
Review by Richard Burgin
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