| August 2005 | Sunday August 28, 2005
 New York Times Book Review
 Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel
Review by Jay McInerney
 
 The Girl in the Glass by Jeffrey Ford
Review by Chelsea Cain
 
 Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
Review by Susannah Meadows
 
 Carnivore Diet by Julia Slavin
Review by Lisa Zeidner
 
 Washington Post Book World
 A Wild Ride Up the Cupboards by Ann Bauer
Review by Carrie Brown
 
 The English Teacher by Lily King
Review by Ron Charles
 
 Trophy House by Anne Bernay
 Haarlem by Heather Neff
 Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio
 Review by Susan Adams
 
 Fan-Tan by Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell
Review by Louis Bayard
 
 San Francisco Chronicle
 An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason
Review by Reagan Upshaw
 
 Into It
 Codes, Precepts, Biases and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993 by Lawrence Joseph
 Review by Allan M. Jalon
 
 Chicago Tribune
 A Wild Ride Up The Cupboards by Ann Bauer
 High Plains Tango by Robert James Waller
 Trophy House by Anne Bernays
 The Testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos
 Whatever Makes You Happy by Lisa Grunwald
 Review by Jane Ciabattari
 
 The Washington Story by Adam Langer
Review by Samuel G. Freedman
 
 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Review by Steven Zeitchik
 
 Boston Globe
 An Atomic Romance by Bobbie Ann Mason
Review by Gail Caldwell
 
 Canaan's Tongue by John Wray
Review by Roberta Silman
 
 LA Times
 Wounded by Percival Everett
Review by Jonathan Kirsch
 
 The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel
Review by Thane Rosenbaum
 
 Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Review by Richard Eder
 
 Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Review by Nick Owchar
 
 Memed, My Hawk by Yashar Kemal
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
 
 A Rabbit's Eyes by Kenjiro Haitani
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
 
 Thursday August 25, 2005
 New York Times
 The Days of Abandonment by Elena Ferrante
Review by Janet Maslin
 
 Tuesday August 23, 2005
 New York Times
 Indecision by Benjamin Kunkel
Review by Michiko Kakutani
 
 Sunday August 21, 2005
 New York Times Book Review
 The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment
Review by Christopher Benfy
 
 Nora Jane by Ellen Gilchrist
Review by Suzy Hansen
 
 Legends by Robert Littell
Review by Neil Gordon
 
 Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Review by Ian Sansom
 
 Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Review by Joy Press
 
 Dog by Michelle Herman
Review by Bruce Weber
 
 Fiction Chronicle:
 Here is Where We Meet by John Berger
 Spies by Marcel Beyer
 Big Cats: Stories by Holiday Reinhorn
 Brain Work: Stories by Michael Guista
 Talking to the Enemy: Stories by Avner Mandelman
 Novel by George Singleton
 Review by Priya Jain
 
 Washington Post Book World
 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Review by Elizabeth Hand
 
 In the Province of Saints by Thomas O'Malley
Review by Ron Charles
 
 San Francisco Chronicle
 Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio
Review by Chelsea Rathburn
 
 The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel
Review by Steve Kettmann
 
 The Kings of Kings County by Whitney Terrell
Review by Edward Hower
 
 A Mouth Like Yours by Daniel Duane
Review by Jesse Berrett
 
 The Prophet of Zongo Street by Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Review by Chris Abani
 
 The Tattoo Artist by Jill Ciment
Review by Jami Attenberg
 
 Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Review by Robert Brinbaum
 
 Crawl Space by Edie Meidav
Review by Timothy Peters
 
 Chicago Tribune
 A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
Review by Art Winslow
 
 We're All In This Together by Owen King
Review by Carole Goldberg
 
 Boston Globe
 Maps For Lost Lovers by Nadeem Aslam
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
 
 Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Review by Gail Caldwell
 
 Nora Jane by Ellen Gilchrist
Review by Jessica Treadway
 
 LA Times
 The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison
Review by Jane Ciabattari
 
 First Fiction:
 A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher
 Big Cats by Holiday Reinhorn
 Review by Mark Rozzo
 
 Wednesday August 17, 2005
 Boston Globe
 The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison
Review by Julie Wittes Schlack
 
 Monday August 15, 2005
 New York Times
 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Review by Janet Maslin
 
 Sunday August 14, 2005
 New York Times Book Review
 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Review by A.O. Scott
 
 The Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price
Review by Claire Messud
 
 The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories by Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Review by Elizabeth Schmidt
 
 Fiction Chronicle:
 Man Camp by Adrienne Brodeur
 Sky Burial by Zinran
 Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj
 The Hill Road by Patrick O'Keefe
 The River House by Margaret Leroy
 Kingston by Starlight by Christopher John Farley
 Review by Ada Calhoun
 
 No Direction Home by Marisa Silver
Review by Elizabeth McKenzie
 
 Crawl Space by Edie Meidav
Review by Sam Munson
 
 Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S. Merwin
Review by Dan Chiasson
 
 Washington Post Book World
 Kingston by Starlight by Christopher John Farley
Review by Elizabeth Gilbert
 
 Dying Light and Other Stories by Donald Hays
Review by Rodney Welch
 
 The King of Kings County by Whitney Terrell 
Review by Ron Charles
 
 The Music of the Mill by Luis J. Rodriguez
Review by Neely Tucker
 
 San Francisco Chronicle
 Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Review by Buzz Poole
 
 Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Review by Tamara Straus
 
 Nobody's Baby and Other Stories by Leo Litwak
Review by Stephen J. Lyons
 
 The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison
Review by Heller McAlpin
 
 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Review by Christine Thomas
 
 Boston Globe
 North by Frederick Busch
Review by Siddhartha Deb
 
 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Review by Steve Almond
 
 LA Times
 Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Review by Janice P. Nimura
 
 Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender
Review by Diana Wagman
 
 Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnah
Review by Richard Eder
 
 Monday August 1, 2005
 LA Times
 The Prophet of Zongo Street: Stories by Mohammed Naseehu Ali
Review by Merle Rubin
 
 Sunday August 7, 2005
 New York Times Book Review
 Almonds to Zhoof: Collected Stories by Richard Stern
Review by Eric Weinberger
 
 The Summer He Didn't Die by Jim Harrison
Review by Jean Thompson
 
 Magic For Beginners by Kelly Link
Review by Michael Knight
 
 The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer
 The Starter Marriage by Kate Harrison
 Review by Liesl Schillinger
 
 Flying at Night: Poems by Ted Kooser
Review by Brad Leithauser
 
 The Testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos
Review by Kae Bolick
 
 Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie
Review by Christopher Atamain
 
 Hide & Seek by Clare Sambrook
Review by Terrence Rafferty
 
 Washington Post Book World
 The Almond by Nedjima
Review by Lorraine Adams
 
 Naphtalene by Alia Mamdouh
Review by Theola S. Labbe
 
 The Time of the Uprooted by Elie Wiesel
Review by Merle Rubin
 
 Blue Beyond Blue by Lauren Slater
 
Review by Deborah Sussman
 
 San Francisco Chronicle
 When It Burned to the Ground by Yolanda Barnes
Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky
 
 The Testing of Luther Albright by MacKenzie Bezos
Review by Debra Spark
 
 Their Magician and Other Stories by Gloria Kurian Broder
Review by Matt Konrad
 
 God Jr. by Dennis Cooper
Review by Casey McKinney
 
 In Perfect Light by Benjamin Alire Saenz
Review by Marcela Valdes
 
 Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler
Review by Theodore Roszak
 
 Boston Globe
 Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Review by Sandra Shea
 
 The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
Review by Anna Mundlow
 
 Something Blue by Emily Giffin
 The Starter Wife by Gigi Levangie Grazer
 Nine Wives by Dan Elish
 Review by Tracy Quan
 
 LA Times
 Little Beauties by Kim Addonizio
Review by Regina Marler
 
 The Other Shulman by Alan Zweibel
Review by Marc Weingarten
 
 Babylon Sisters by Pearl Cleage
Review by Paula L. Woods
 
 First Fiction:
 The Loss of Leon Meed by Josh Emmons
Review by Mark Rozzo
 
 
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