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February 2012

Wednesday February 29, 2012 New York Times The Starboard Sea by Amber Dermont Review by Janet Maslin Sunday February 26, 2012 New York Times Book Review The Technologists by Matthew Pearl Review by James Parker Waterline by Ross Raisin Review by Rachel Nolan Pure by Julianna Baggott Review by Clare Clark By Blood by Ellen Ullman Review by Parul Sehgal Men in Space by Tom McCarthy Review by Stephen Burn San Francisco Chronicle By Blood by Ellen Ullman Review by Alan Cheuse Useless Landscape, or A Guide For Boys by D.A. Powell Review by Sara Marcus Stay Awake by Dan Chaon Review by S. Kirk Walsh The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice Review by Liz Colville Washington Post Pavane by Keith Roberts Review by Michael Dirda LA Times The Wolf Gift by Anne Rice Review by Nick Owchar Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan Review by Chris Barton The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus Review by Chris Barton Thursday February 23, 2012 New York Times The Technologists by Matthew Pearl Review by Janet Maslin Wednesday February 22, 2012 At Last by Edward St. Aubyn Review by By Michiko Kakutani Sunday February 19, 2012 New York Times Book Review What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander Review by Stacy Schiff Girlchild by Tupelo Hassman Review by Megan Mayhew Bergman Restoration by Olaf Olafsson Review by David Leavitt Leibestod by Leslie Epstein Review by Tom LeClair Chronicle: Iago by David Snodin The Fat Years by Chan Koonchung Heft by Liz Moore The Lost Saints of Tennessee by Amy Franklin-Willis Wayward Saints by Suzzy Roche Review by Alison McCulloch San Francisco Chronicle Other People We Married by Emma Straub Review by Dawn Raffel What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander Review by Elizabeth Rosner Washington Post The Spinoza Problem by Irvin D. Yalom Review by Ron Charles La Times By Blood by Ellen Ullman Review by Carolyn Kellogg Thursday February 16, 2012 New York Times Watergate by Thomas Mallon Review by Janet Maslin Monday February 13, 2012 New York Times Defending Jacob by William Landay Review by Janet Maslin Sunday February 12, 2012 New York Times Book Review Three Weeks in December by Audrey Schulman Review by Bruce Barcott At Last by Edward St. Aubyn Review by Francine Prose Norumbega Park by Anthony Giardina Review by Jennifer Gilmore Gathering of Waters by Bernice L. McFadden Review by Jesmyn Ward San Francisco Chronicle Contents May Have Shifted by Pam Houston Review by Rebecca Barry A Theory of Small Earthquakes by Meredith Maran Review by Gayle Brandeis Drifting House by Krys Lee Review by Marie Myung-Ok Lee No One Is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel Review by Polly Rosenwaike The Lost Saints of Tennessee by Amy Franklin-Willis Review by Joan Frank La Times Monstress by Lysley Tenorio Review by August Brown Watergate by Thomas Mallon Review by Scott Martelle Washington Post Watergate by Thomas Mallon Review by Ron Charles Stay Awake by Dan Chaon Review by Jeff Turrentine Vulture Peak by John Burdett Review by Jonathan Yardley Friday February 10, 2012 New York Times What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank: Stories by Nathan Englander Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday February 5, 2012 New York Times Book Review Raylan by Elmore Leonard Review by Olen Steinhauer Stay Awake: Stories by Dan Chaon Review by Parick McGrath Mistaken by Neil Jordan Review by Caryn James These of Dreams of You by Steve Erickson Review by leah Hager Cohen No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel Review by Jane Ciabattari The Night Swimmer by Matt Bondurant Review by Mike Peed San Francisco Chronicle Monstress by Lysley Tenorio Review by Malena Watrous Vicky Swanky Is a Beauty by Diane Williams Review by Carmela Ciuraru The Flame Alphabet by Ben Marcus Review by Roberto Ontiveros Washington Post The World We Found by Thrity Umrigar Review by Frances Itani The Flight of Gemma by Margot Livesey Review by Ron Charles LA Times History of a Pleasure Seeker by Richard Mason Review by Carolynn Kellogg Treasure Island by Sara Levine Review by Alan Cheuse The Quality of Mercy by Barry Unsworth Review by Richard Rayner What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander Review by David L. Ulin American Dervish by Ayad Akhtar Review by Lorraine Ali January 2012 List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site