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February 2000 |
Sunday February 27, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Beowulf; Translation by Seamus Heaney
Review by James Shapiro
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Review by Richard Eder
Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding
Review by Anita Gates
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
Review by Akash Kapur
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
Review by John Burnham Schwartz
So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy
Review by David Sacks
Delancey's Way by James McCourt
Review by Bill Goldstein
Books in Brief:
The Poet Game by Salar Abdoh
Review by Megan Harlan
The Summer After June by Ashley Warlick
Review by Paula Friedman
Quick Bright Things: Stories by Ron Wallace
Review by Maria Russo
Champeen by Heather Ross Miller
Review by Maggie Galehouse
Begin Again: Collected Poems by Grace Paley
Review by Adam Kirsch
Washington Post Book World
Galveston by Sean Stewart
Review by Elizabeth Hand
Delancey's Way by James McCourt
Review by Michael Dirda
Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown
Review by Maureen Corrigan
San Francisco Chronicle
The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
Review by Christopher Hawthorne
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
Review by Jeanne DuPrau
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Review by Marit Haahr
In Danger by Suzanne Lummis
One Hand on the Wheel by Dan Bellm
Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky
Learning Human: Selected Poems by Les Murray
Review by Alan M. Jalon
Philadelphia Inquirer
Plague Journal by Michael O'Brien
Review by Frank Wilson
Slab Rat by Ted Heller
Review by Karen Heller
Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
Review by Lionel Shriver
Afterburn by Colin Harrison
Review by Richard Fuller
LA Times
In America by Susan Sontag
Review by Michael Silverblatt
The Inland Sea by Steven Varni
Review by Phyllis Richardson
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
Review by Jonathan Levi
On Parole by Akira Yoshimura
Review by Peter Green
First Fiction:
Test Pattern by Marjorie Klein
American by Blood by Andrew Huebner
Run by Douglas E. Winter
Review by Mark Rozzo
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Pastoral by Carl Phillips
Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss
Friday February 25, 2000
Washington Post
Use Me by Elissa Schappell
Review by Carolyn See
Monday February 21, 2000
New York Times
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Sunday February 20, 2000
New York Times
Make Believe by Joanna Scott
Review by Nick Hornby
The Verificationist by Donald Antrim
Review by Dwight Garner
Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olen Butler
Review by Geoff Nicholson
The Missing Head of Damasceno Monteiro by Antonio Tabucchi
Review by Michael Pye
Slab Rat by Ted Heller
Review by Alex Kuczynski
When Mountains Walked by Kate Wheeler
Review by Susan Bolotin
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
Review by James Polk
Books in Brief:
The Rose Garden: Short Stories by Maeve Brennan
Review by Linda Barrrett Osborne
Remembering Blue by Connie May Fowler
Review by Liza Featherstone
The Realm of Secondhand Souls by Sandra Shea
Review by Anderson Tepper
Pay It Forward by Catherine Ryan Hyde
Review by Sara Kelly
Fuller Man by Diane Glancy
Review by Erik Burns
Sunday You Learn How To Box by Bil Wright
Review by Chase Madar
Washington Post Book World
Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood
Review by Esther Iverem
The New City by Stephen Amidon
Review by Gary Krist
Shame the Devil by George Pelecanos
Review by Rob Pegoraro
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
Review by Peter McCarthy
Beowulf: Translation by Seamus Heaney
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Review by Floyd Skloot
When Mountains Walked by Kate Wheeler
Review by Sarah Coleman
Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding
Review by Sarah Coleman
Pieces of Light by Adam Thorpe
Review by Josh Emmons
The Jook by Gary Phillips
Review by David Lazarus
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Realm of Secondhand Souls by Sandra Shea
Review by Carol Cain Farrington
Rails Under My Back by Jeffrey Renard
Review by N. Graham Nesmith
Simple Stories by Ingo Schulze
Review by John E. Woods
The Fan-Maker's Inquisition by Rikki Ducornet
Review by James Polk
Poems by Anne Michaels
Review by Paula Friedman
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
Review by Marc Schogol
LA Times
Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney
Review by Edward Hirsch
City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Review by Jonathan Levi
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Review by Jonathan Veitch
Discoveries:
Polly's Ghost by Abby Frucht
The Houseguest by Agnes Rossi
Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture by Apostolos Doxiadis
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney
Review by Charles Guenther
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Review by Peter Wolfe
Conspiracy of Paper by David Liss
Review by Jamieson Spencer
Monday February 14, 2000
New York Times
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
Review by Richard Bernstein
Sunday February 13, 2000
New York Times
Wonderful Town: New York Stories from the New Yorker
Review by John Leonard
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
Review by Annette Kobak
Reap by Eric Rickstad
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
Review by Diana Postlethwaite
A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
Review by Brian Morton
The Testament of Yves Gundron by Emily Barton
Review by John Crowley
On Parole by Akira Yoshimura
Review by Michael Pye
Books in Brief:
The Third Eye by David Knowles
Review by Porter Shreve
Sugar by Bernice L. McFadden
Review by Bill Kent
Host Family by Mameve Medwed
Review by Christopher Atamian
The Contract Surgeon by Dan O'Brien
Review by Charles Flowers
So Vast the Prison by Assia Djebar
Review by Erik Burns
Washington Post Book World
What the Body Remembers by Shauna Singh Baldwin
Review by Bella Stander
With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
San Francisco Chronicle
Tula Station by David Toscana
Review by Oscar C. Villalon
Dead Above Ground by Jervey Tervalon
Review by Brian Schwartz
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
Review by Floyd Skloot
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
The Handsome Sailor by Larry Duberstein
Review by Marc Bousquet
The Realm of Secondhand Souls by Sandra Shea
The Mask Carver's Son by Alyson Richman
Falling Dark by Tim Tharp
Moira's Crossing by Christina Shea
Review by John Perry
The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd
Review by Daniel Blue
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olen Butler
Review by Gregory Feeley
LA Times
First Fiction:
Acts of Mutiny by Derek Beaven
Plan B by Jonathan Tropper
Mummy's Legs by Kate Bingham
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
Meely Labauve by Ken Wells
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
The Danish Girl by David Ebershoff
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Review by Robert Boyd
Friday February 11, 2000
New York Times
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Staring at the Light by Frances Fyfield
Review by Carolyn See
Wednesday February 9, 2000
New York Times
Memories of Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong
Review by Richard Bernstein
Tuesday February 8, 2000
New York Times
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Monday February 7, 2000
New York Times
The Fly-Truffler by Gustaf Sobin
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Sunday February 6, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd
Review by John Sutherland
The Marriage at Antibes by Carol Azadeh
Review by Michael Upchurch
Scandalmonger by William Safire
Review by Thomas Flanagan
Polly's Ghost by Abby Frucht
Review by Sarah Ferguson
Pieces of Light by Adam Thorpe
Review by Ricarhd Eder
Scar Vegas by Tom Paine
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
Simple Stories by Ingo Schulze
Review by Suzanne Ruta
Tula Station by David Toscana
Review by David Toscana
Chaos Theory by Gary Krist
Review by Nelson DeMille
The Houseguest by Agnes Rossi
Review by Lucy Ferriss
Book in Brief:
A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson Dargatz
Review by Sally Eckoff
Test Pattern by Marjorie Klein
Review by Joyce Millman
Skateaway by Michale Grant
Review by Patrice Clark Koelsch
Eulogy for a Private Man by Fred Dings
Review by Melanie Rehak
Don Vicente by F. Sionil Jose
Review by David Walton
The Truly Needy by Lucy Honig
Review by Gardner McFall
Washington Post Book World
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
Review by Robert Clark
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Review by Katherine Duncan-Jones
Scandalmonger by William Safire
Review by Wendy Smith
A Conspiracy of Paper by David Lass
Review by Bruce Cook
Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
Review by R.M. Berry
Mother to Mother by Sindiwe Magona
Review by Heather Hewett
Fiction
Simple Stories by Ingo Schulze
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
The Testament of Yves Gundron by Emily Barton
The Marriage at Antibes by Carol Azadeh
The Houseguest by Agnes Rossi
Review by Jana Kollias
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cape of Storms by Nina Berberova
Review by Gregory Feeley
San Francisco Chronicle
Slapboxing with Jesus by Victor D. LaValle
Review by Andrew Roe
Garden of Exile by Aleida Rodriguez
Review by John Phillip Santos
The Fan-Makers Inquisition by Rikki Ducornet
Review by David Wiegand
Pay It Forward by Cahterine Ryan Hyde
Review by David Field
S. by Slavenka Drakulic
Review by Steve Kettmann
LA Times
My Century by Gunther Grass
Review by Jonathan Levi
Scandalmonger by William Safire
Review by Phyllis Richardson
Discoveries:
S. by Slavenka Drakulic
Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Missing World by Margot Livesey
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
The Vision of Emma Blau by Ursula Hegi
Review by Susan C. Hegger
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