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December 2000 |
Sunday December 31, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Truth & Bright Water by Thomas King
Review by Stephanie Zacharek
Hornito: My Lie Life by Mike Albo
Review by Catherine Texier
Threadsuns by Paul Celan
Selected Poems and Prose by Paul Celan
Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
Review by Mark M. Anderson
Books in Brief:
Invisible Tender by Jennifer Clarvoe
Review by Melanie Rehak
The World of Normal Boys by K.M Soehlein
Review by Matthew Flamm
Odds by Patty Friedman
Review by Deborah Sussman Susser
The Merciful Women by Federico Andahazi
Review by David Galef
Labor Day by Floyd Kemske
Review by James Polk
An American Outrage by G.K. Wuori
Review by Michael Porter
San Francisco Chronicle
The Fisher King by Paule Marshall
Review by Emory Holmes
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
Review by Erik Tarloff
Electric God by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Review by Roxanne Farmanfarmaian
Guess Again by Bernard Cooper
Review by Lewis De Simone
LA Times
Discoveries:
Cape Breton Road by D.R. MacDonald
Sister India by Peggy Payne
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Jimmy Corrigan by Christopher Ware
Review by Jonathan Levi
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn
Review by Gerald Holton
Chicago Tribune
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Miranda Schwartz
Mrs. Hollingswoth's Men by Padgett Powell
Review by Lynna Williams
Friday December 29, 2000
New York Times
A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh
Review by Richard Eder
Thursday December 28, 2000
New York Times
What Remains by Nicholas Delbanco
Review by Janet Maslin
Sunday December 24, 2000
New York Times Book Review
More Stories From My father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Review by Jonathan Rosen
Novels and Stories 1920-1922 by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Review by Caleb Crain
Soul Mountain by Gao Zingjian
Review by Nichlolas D. Kristof
Books in Brief:
Worship of the Common Heart: New and Selected Stories by Patricia
Henley
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Stay by Mary Sullivan
Review by Kimberley B. Marlowe
No Man's Land by Fielding Dawson
Review by Emily Hall
Breathing Room: New Poems by Peter Davison
Review by Megan Harlan
The Hell Screens by Alvin Lu
Review by Philip Gambone
Washington Post Book World
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Review by Jennifer Howard
Martha Peake by Patrick McGrath
Review by Robert Wilson
All Souls by Javier Marias
Review by Nina King
The Business by Iain Banks
Review by Frances Stead Sellers
A Citizen of the Country by Sarah Smith
Review by Brian Jacomb
San Francisco Chronicle
Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
Review by Jason K. Friedman
Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
Review by Emily Wise Miller
How the Dead Live by Will Self
Review by Carey Harrison
Philadelphia Inquirer
Purgatorio by Dante; Translated by W.S. Merwin
Review by David R. Slavitt
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Review by Marc Schogol
In My Brother's Image by Eugene L. Pogany
Review by Gerald Etter
Chicago Tribune
Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson
Review by Chris Petrakos
Cassada by James Salter
Review by Alan Cheuse
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Review by Donna Seaman
LA Times
Discoveries:
Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
The Vintage Book of Latin American Stories; Edited by Carlos Fuentes
and Julio Ortega
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
First Fiction:
Ordinary Horror by David Searcy
Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson
Robbers by Christopher Cook
Review by Mark Rozzo
The Years With Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
Review by Michael Wood
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Soul Mountain by Gao Zingjian
Review by John Freeman
Daughter of the Shining Isles by Elizabeth Cunningham
Review by Martha K. Baker
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
Review by Peter Wolfe
Tuesday December 19, 2000
New York Times
Island by Jane Rogers
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Monday December 18, 2000
New York Times
Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian
Review by Richard Eder
Sunday December 17, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
Review by Katherine Dieckmann
Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley
Review by Daphne Merkin
On A Dark Night I Left My Silent House by Peter Handke
Review by Kai Maristed
The Accidental Pope by Raymond Flynn and Robin Moore
Review by Alessandra Stanley
Love by Peter Nadas
Review by Lisa Zeidner
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
Review by Rob Nixon
Books in Brief:
A Tinker's Damn by Darryl Wimberley
Review by David Galef
The Business by Iain Banks
Review by Peter Bricklebank
Desirada by Maryse Conde
Review by Christina Lem
Merrick by Anne Rice
Review by Matthew Flamm
Cool, Calm & Collected by Carolyn Kizer
Review by Melanie Rehak
Washington Post Book World
The Constant Gardener by John le Carre
Review by S.J. Hamrick
The Beast God Forgot to Invent by Jim Harrison
Review by Pam Houston
Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
Review by Lydia Millet
Too Far Afield by Gunter Grass
Review by Dennia Drabelle
David Boring by Daniel Clowe
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katchor
No Pasaran by Vittorio Giardino
Minor Miracles by Will Eisner
Review by Mike Musgrove
San Francisco Chronicle
The Years With Laura Diaz by Carlos Fuentes
Review by Brian Bouldrey
Lick of Love by John Updike
Review by John Freeman
What Night Forgets by Don Yorty
Review by Barbara Hoffert
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer by Ben Katchor
Review by Chris Lanier
Philadelphia Inquirer
Daemonomania by John Crowley
Review by Gregory Feeley
Your Name Here by John Ashbery
Review by Chris McCreary
She Didn't Mean to Do It by Daisy Fried
Review by Thomas J. Brady
LA Times
Soul Mountain by Gao Zingjian
Review by Jonathan Levi
More Stories From My Father's Court by Isaac Bashevis Singer
Review by Kenneth Turan
Chicago Tribune
What Remains by Nicholas Delbanco
Louisa by Simone Zelitch
Review by S.L. Wisenberg
The Aerialist by Richard Schmitt
Review by Chris Petrakos
Collected Stories by Ellen Gilchrist
Review by Lynna Williams
The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel
Friday December 15, 2000
Washington Post
Dr. Death by Jonathan Kellerman
Review by Carolyn See
Thursday December 14, 2000
New York Times
Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley
Review by Janet Maslin
Monday December 11, 2000
New York Times
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Review by Janet Maslin
Sunday December 10, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Persian Bride by James Buchan
Review by Jonathan Mahler
The Two Hearts of Kwasi Boachi by Arthur Japin
Review by Michael Pye
Ferdydurke by Witold Gombrowicz
Review by Eva Hoffman
Killing Time by Caleb Carr
Review by Daniel Zalewski
Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai
Review by Jonathan Wilson
Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer by Andrei Makine
Review by Richard Lourie
Light Action in the Caribbean: Stories by Barry Lopez
Review by Robert Draper
Talking Dirty to the Gods by Yusef Komunyakaa
Review by April Bernard
The Journey Home by Olaf Olafsson
Review by Brigitte Frase
Books in Brief:
The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart by Alice Walker
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years by Sue Townsend
Review by Sally Eckoff
Dead and Gone by Andrew Vachss
Review by Scott Veale
Where I'm Bound by Allen B. Ballard
Review by Kristin Eliasberg
The Animal Factory by Edward Bunker
Review by Sia Michel
Washington Post Book World
Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen
Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein
Modern Art by Evelyn Toynton
Little Ellie Claus by James Manos Jr.
Review by Patrick Anderson
Licks of Love by John Updike
Review by Michael Dirda
Body of a Girl by Leah Stewart
Temptation by Jude Deveraux
Heaven by Kathleen Alcala
The Palace of Tears by Alev Lytle Croutier
The Moon Pearl by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Review by Victoria Amador
Pobby and Dingan by Ben Rice
Review by Lydia Millet
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Review by Jim Marks
The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
Review by John Crowley
San Francisco Chronicle
The Fifth Season by Robert C.S. Downs
Review by Gerald W. Haslam
Longing by J.D. Landis
Review by Erik Tarloff
Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley
Review by Chris Bohjalian
Orange Laughter by Leone Ross
Review by Porter Shreve
The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq
Review by Kevin Berger
Whose Song and Other Stories by Thomas Glave
Review by Brian Schwartz
Glory Goes and Gets Some by Emily Carter
An Obvious Enchantment by Tucker Malarkey
The Persian Bride by James Buchan
How All This Started by Pete Fromm
Venus Drive by Sam Lipsyte
Review by John Perry
Chicago Tribune
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Review by Robert L. Kaiser
The Journey Home by Olaf Olafsson
Review by Michael Upchurch
Friday December 8, 2000
New York Times
Protect and Defend by Richard North Patterson
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
A Desert in Bohemia by Jill Paton Walsh
Review by Carolyn See
Wednesday December 6, 2000
New York Times
Confessions of a Fallen Standard-Bearer by Andrei Makine
Review by Richrad Bernstein
Monday December 4, 2000
New York Times
A Small Death in Lisbon by Robert Wilson
Review by Richard Bernstein
Sunday December 3, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Reading Lyrics: Edited by Rober Gottleib and Robert Kimball
Review by David Yezzi
The Forger by Paul Watkins
Review by Katharine Weber
Rhode Island Blues by Fay Weldon
Review by Laura Jamison
Jane Austen's Charlotte: Her Fragment of a Last Novel Completed by
Julia Barrett
Review by James R. Kincaid
What Remains by Nicholas Delbanco
Review by Catherine Lockerbie
Philadelphia Inquirer
O Lost by Thomas Wolfe
Review by Donald Newlove
San Francisco Chronicle
Mall by Eric Bogosian
Review by Ken Foster
The Palace of Tears by Alev Lytle
Review by Brigitte Frase
Frisco Pigeon Mambo by C.D. Payne
Revolting Youth by C.D. Payne
Review by Josh Emmons
Friday December 1, 2000
New York Times
The Persian Bride by James Buchan
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Boone's Lick by Larry McMurtry
Review by Carolyn See
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