August 2002 |
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Sunday August 25, 2002
New York Times Book Review
The Metal Shredders by Nancy Zafris
Review by Ken Kalfus
Blood of Victory by Alan Furst
Review by Neil Gordon
Inflating the Dog by Eric Kraft
Review by Jennifer Reese
The Judges by Elie Wiesel
Review by Robert Leiter
A Conversation with the Mann by John Ridley
Review by Jonathan Mahler
Savage Run by C.J. Box
Review by Charles Wilson
Books in Brief:
House Under Snow by Jill Bialosky
Review by Michael Porter
The Trolley by Claude Simon
Review by Elizabeth Judd
I by Stephen Dixon
Review by Adam Baer
Looking For Mary Gabriel by Carole Lawrence
Review by Nicole LaPorte
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford
Review by Erik Burns
Small Accidents by Andrew Gray
Review by Taylor Antrim
Cheese by Willem Elsschot
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Washington Post Book World
The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
Review by Jon Fasman
The Boxer by Jurek Becker
Review by Joshua Beckman
Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill
Review by Todd Pruzan
Sheepshagger by Niall Griffiths
Review by James Buchan
All I Could Get by Scott Lasser
Big If by Mark Costello
Quattrocento by James McKean
Paradise Bay by Jack Santos
Review by Deborah Kalb
San Francisco Chronicle
Husband and Wife by Zeruya Shalev
Review by Sarah Coleman
The Virgin's Knot by Holly Payne
Review by Jeanne Cooper
Annie Dunne by Sebastian Barry
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
The Wasties by Frederick Reuss
Review by Kate Washington
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
Review by jane Ciabattari
The Origin of the World by Pierre Michon
Review by Regan McMahon
Swallow by Miranda Field
Review by Joel Weishaus
Echoes of a Distant Summer by Guy Johnson
Review by Anneli Rufus
Chicago Tribune
The Judges by Elie Wiesel
Review by Alan Cheuse
The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
Review by Dan Santow
Pasadena by David Ebershoff
Review by Raphael Kadushin
The Staggerford Flood by Jon Hassler
Review by Keith Taylor
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Food Taster by Ugo DiFonte
Review by Gerald Etter
LA Times
The Boxer by Jurek Becker
Review by Merle Rubin
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Review by Review by Michael Harris
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Tuesday August 20, 2002
New York Times
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday August 18, 2002
New York Times Book Review
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Review by Jeff Giles
The Dead Circus by John Kaye
Review by Stephanie Zacharek
The Egg Code by Mike Heppner
Review by Scott McLemee
The Fruit of Stone by Mark Spragg
Review by Jonathan Miles
Washington Post Book world
Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
Review by Patrick Anderson
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
Review by Zofia Smardz
Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
Review by Jennifer Howard
A Thing (Or Two) About Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler
Review by Gavin McNett
True to Form by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Jane Ciabattari
Leaving Atlanta by Tayari Jones
Review by Michael Skube
Five Boys by Mick Jackson
Review by Paul West
Music of a Life by Andrei Makine
Review by Sven Birkerts
San Francisco Chronicle
Music of a Life by Andrei Makine
Review by Heller McAlpin
More Than Enough by John Fulton
Review by Daniel Drew TUrner
Bending Heaven by Jessica Francis Kane
Review by Eliza Wilmerding
Inflating a Dog by Eric Kraft
Review by Andrew Ervin
The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass
Review by Drew Cherry
The Beholder by Thomas Farber
Review by Irina Reyn
Chicago Tribune
That's True of Everybody by Mark Winegardner
Review by John Freeman
Women About Town by Laura Jacobs
Review by Ariella Budick
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Orchards of Syon by Geoffrey Hill
Review by Frank Wilson
The Whore's Chld by Richard Russo
Review by Donald Newlove
LA Times
Music of a Life by Andrei Makine
Review by Peter Green
A Short History of the Shadow by Charles Wright
Review by Langdon Hammer
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
Review by Michael Harris
First Fiction:
The Heaven of Mercury by Brad Watson
The Frog King by Adam Davies
The Color Midnight Made by Andrew Winer
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
Doctor Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg
Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Friday August 16, 2002
New York Times
Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
Review by Caryn James
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Sunday August 11, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Standing in the Rainbow by Fannie Flagg
Review by Ellen Feldman
The Ringer by Bill Scheft
Review by Joe Queenan
The Heart of Redness by Zakes Mda
Ways of Dying by Zakes Mda
Review by Tony Eprile
The Year of Ice by Brian Malloy
Review by Suzanne Berne
The Girl From the Coast by Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Review by Nell Freudenberger
Drastic: Stories by Maud Casey
Review by Claire Dederer
The Man Who Rode Ampersand by Ferdinand Mount
Review by Brooke Allen
Books in Brief:
My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper
Review by Charles Wilson
The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body by Alberto Rios
Review by Ken Tucker
Oyster by John Biguenet
Review by Erik Burns
Laugh Track by David Galef
Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
Amber Necklace From Gdansk: Poems by Linda Nemec Foster
Review by Eric McHenry
Suicide's Girlfriend by Elizabeth Evans
Review by John Hartl
Washington Post Book World
Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Review by Janice P. Nimura
The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass
Review by Claire Dederer
The Soldier's Return by Melvyn Bragg
Review by Alan Furst
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Review by Maria Russo
Collected Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca
Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
and Rafael Albert; Songs From the Quecha
Review by Rafael Campo
Peter Loon by Van Reid
Review by Richard Grant
Versailles by Kathryn Davis
Review by David Guy
Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake by james McCourt
Review by Robert Girardi
The Sands of Pride by William R. Trotter
Review by Mark A. Bradley
San Francisco Chronicle
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
Review by David Kipen
Versailles by Kathryn Davis
Review by Kera Bolonik
Goodbye Tsugumi by Banana Yoshimoto
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Suicide's Girlfriend by Elizabeth Evans
Review by Mark Luce
The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein
Review by Danielle Svetcov
The Silence of the Rain by Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
Review by Tom Nolan
Chicago Tribune
Prague by Arthur Philips
Review by Aleksander Hemon
China Dog by Judy Fong Bates
Review by WenHuang
Emporium by Adam Johnson
Review by Laura Demanski
Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester
Review by Dan Cryer
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
Review by Christine Thomas
Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Susan Balee
The Scar by China Mieville
Review by John R. Alden
Khalifah by John Elray
Review by Eileen O'Donnell
LA Times
Versailles by Kathryn Davis
Review by Katherine Weber
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Sunday August 4, 2002
New York Times Book Review
The White by Deborah Larsen
Review by Lvinia Greenlaw
The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
Review by Malcolm Jones
Versailles by Kathryn Davis
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
Camouflage: Stories by Murray Bail
Review by Danielk Zalewski
Fierce People by Dirk Wittenborn
Review by Jacqueline Carey
Washington Post Book World
The Color Midnight Made by Andrew Winer
Review by Susan Straight
Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by John Strausbaugh
Noble Norfleet by Reynolds Price
Review by Micahel Anft
River Thieves by Michael Crummey
Review by Judith Freeman
The Whore's Child by Richard Russo
Review by Frances Stead Sellers
The White by Deborah Larsen
Review by Michael Kernan
San Francisco Chronicle
After the Quake by Haruki Murakami
Review by Alan Cheuse
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
Review by Miriam Wolf
House Under Snow by Jill Bialosky
Review by Drew Cherry
In the Middle of All This by Fred G. Leebron
Review by Andrew Roe
Philadelphia Inquirer
Springing: New and Selected Poems by Marie Poonsot
Review by Gregory Feeley
The Portrait of Mrs. Charbuque by Jeffrey Ford
Review by Roger Gathman
A Wild People by Hugh Leonard
Review by Christine Thomas
LA Times
Discoveries:
The Beholder by Thomas Farber
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
First Fiction:
Sasso by James Sturz
The Art of Seeing by Cammie McGovern
Tempting Faith Dinapoli by Lisa Gabriele
Review by Mark Rozzo
The Man Who Rode by Ferdinand Mount
Review by Michael Harris
Passing by Nella Larsen
Review by Brooke Kroeger
The Girl From the Coast by Pramoedya Anantz Toer
Review by Jamie James
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