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January 2000 |
Sunday January 30, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Tea by Stacy D'Erasmo
Review by Caleb Crain
The Missing World by Margot Livesey
Review by Michael Upchrch
The Last Dance by Ed McBain
Review by Marilyn Stasio
The Balm of Gilead Tree by Robert Morgan
Review by David L. Ulin
Books In Brief:
Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Hu Huong
Review by Philip Gambone
The Father of the Predicaments by Heather McHugh
Review by David Kirby
I, Che Guevara by John Blackthorn
Review by Jonathon Keats
Lynelle by the Sea by Laurie Lico Albanese
Review by Allen Lincoln
Rules of the Lake by Irene Ziegler
Review by Megan Harlan
Washington Post Book World
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Review by Susan Dooley
If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
Review by Lelia Ruckenstein
Slapboxing with Jesus by Victor D. LaValle
Naked Pueblo by Mark Jude Poirer
Review by Helen C. Wan
Lying With the Enemy by Tim Binding
Review by Allen Barra
San Francisco Chronicle
A Recipe For Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
Review by Cathryn Alpert
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
Review by Dodie Bellamy
So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy
Review by Sarah Coleman
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan
Review by Rita Giordano
LA Times
Complete Novels by Dashiell Hammett
Nightmare Town; Stories by Dashiell Hammett
Review by Diane Johnson
Simple Stories by Ingo Schulze
Review by Jonathan Levi
First Fiction:
Slab Rat by Ted Heller
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Tea by Stacey D'Erasmo
Review by Mark Rozzp
Discoveries:
Blackden by Duncan McLean
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Review by Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
Tales of Resistance by Peter Leach
Review by Dale Singer
Thursday January 27, 2000
New York Times
The Missing World by Margot Livesey
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Wednesday January 26, 2000
Washington Post
The Slow Way Back by Judy Goldman
Review by Valerie Sayers
Tuesday January 25, 2000
New York Times
In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Monday January 24, 2000
New York Times
Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Review by Richard Eder
Sunday January 23, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Lieutenant-Colonel De Maumort by Roger Martin du Gard
Review by John Sturrock
George Bush, Dark Prince of Love by Lydia Millet
Review by M.G. Lord
Afterburn by Colin Harrison
Review by Stephen Dobyns
Trappings: New Poems by Richard Howard
Review by Langdon Hammer
Black Girl in Paris by Shay Youngblood
Review by David Haynes
Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
Review by Wendy Shaw
Books in Brief:
Ports of Call by Amin Malouf
Review by William Ferguson
Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Review by Ruth Coughlin
If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
Review by Nora Berkley Krug
Theo's Odyssey by Catherine Clement
Review by Clea Simon
April Rising by Corene Lemaitre
Review by Nell Casey
The Secret Names of Women by Lynne Barrett
Review by Maureen McLane
Washington Post Book World
Scar Vegas and Other Stories by Tom Paine
Review by Ranald Totten
Wake of the Perdido Star by Gene Hackman and Daniel Lenihan
Review by Ken Ringle
Philadelphia Inquirer
Satin Doll by Karen E. Quinones
Review by Becky Birtha
The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd
Review by Frank Wilson
San Francisco Chronicle
The Dress Lodger by Sheri Holman
Review by Jason K. Friedman
Scar Vegas ond Other Stories by Tom Paine
Review by Cathryn Alpert
The New City by Stephen Amidon
Review by John King
Ethel & Ernest by Raymond Briggs
The Four Immigrants by Henry Kiyama
Review by Chris Lanier
Afterburn by Colin Harrison
Review by Noah Hawley
LA Times
Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olen Butler
Review by Jonathan Levi
The New City by Stephen Amidon
Review by Tom Vanderbilt
Discoveries:
The Fly-Trufffler by Gustaf Sobin
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark
Review by Jameson Spencer
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
Friday January 21, 2000
Washington Post
Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong
Review by Carolyn See
Wednesday January 19, 2000
New York Times
Simple Stories by Ingo Schulze
Review by Richard Eder
Tuesday January 18, 2000
Washington Post
The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
Review by Debra Spark
Sunday January 16, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
Review by Tom Shone
Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
Review by James Polk
How She Knows What She Knows About Yo-Yos; Stories by Mary Ann
Taylor-Hall
Review by Bart Schneider
The New City by Stephen Amidon
Review by Ken Tucker
Chronicle of Seven Sorrows by Patrick Chamoiseau
Review by Alberto Manguel
Books in Brief:
Dragon Strike by Humphrey Hawksley and Simon Holbertson
Review by Charles Wilson
In Praise of Lies by Patricia Melo
Review by Michael Porter
The Delinquent Virgin by Laura Kalpakian
Review by Elizabeth Judd
A Stairway to Paradise by Madeleine St. John
Review by Gloria Rohmann
The Girl at the Lion D'Or by Sebastian Faulks
Review by Maggie Galehouse
Washington Post Book World
Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee
Review by James Hynes
Mr. Spceman by Robert Olen Butler
Review by Kit Reed
Chaos Theory by Gary Krist
Review by Jonathan Yardley
San Francisco Chronicle
The Museum of Unconditional Surrender by Dubravka Ugresic
Review by Maggie Trapp
Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olen Butler
Review by Tony Maastrogiorgio
The Slow Way Back by Judy Goldman
The Ladies Auxiliary by Tova Mirvis
Review by Jason K. Friedman
In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark
Review by Jennie Yabroff
If I Told You Once by Judy Budnitz
Review by Marit Haahr
Philadelphia Inquirer
Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Review by Johanna Winant
LA Times
Girl With the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Summer After June by Ashley Warlick
Review by Paula L. Woods
First Fiction:
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
The Testament of Yves Gundron by Emily Barton
Eating the Cheshire Cat by Ehlen Ellis
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd
The Realm of Second Hand Souls by Sandra Shea
A Recipe for Bees by Gail Anderson-Dargatz
The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
George Bush, Dark Prince of Love by Lydia Millet
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
Friday January 14, 2000
Washington Post
April Rising by Corene Lemaitre
Review by Carolyn See
Thursday January 13, 2000
New York Times
Scar Vegas by Tom Paine
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Washington Post
The Coming of the Night by John Rechy
Review by Rick Whitaker
Sunday January 9, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
Review by Joe Queenan
Fasting, Feasting by Anita Desai
Review by Francine Prose
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
Review by Jeff Giles
Home Across the Road by Nancy Peacock
Review by Megan Harlan
Cape of Storms by Nina Berberova
Review by Claire Messud
Despair; And Other Stories by Andre Alexis
Review by Jonathan Lethem
Books in Brief:
Women and Other Animals: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Review by Janet Kaye
The Last English King by Julian Rathbone
Review by David Kirby
The Daily Mirror: A Journal in Poetry by David Lehman
Review by Dwight Garner
Between the Flowers by Harriette Simpson Arnow
Review by Emily Hall
Ralph's Party by Lisa Jewell
Review by Barbara Sutton
Washington Post Book World
Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
Review by Carolyn See
Waiting by Ha Jin
Review by Gregory Feeley
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiaasen
Review by Jonathan Yardley
San Francisco Chronicle
Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
Review by Cristina Nehring
Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa by Andre Alexis
Review by Dasvid Wiegand
Tea by Stacey D'Erasmo
Review by Paul Kafka
Dead Philadelphians by Frank Frost
Review by Catherine Davidson
Ghost Quartet by Richard Burgin
Review by Floyd Skloot
The Sexual Occupation of Japan by Richard Setlowe
Review by Charles Burress
Rocks on a Platter
The Confetti Trees
If So Tell Me
By Barbara Guest
Review by Garrett Caples
Philadelphia Inquirer
The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis
Review by Justin D. Coffin
The Desperate Season by Michael Blaine
Review by Jill P. Capuzzo
LA Times
Lieutenant-Colonel De Maumort by Roger Martin du Gard
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Discoveries:
Undue Influence by Anita Brookner
Clara by Luisa Valenzuela
The Mask Carver's Son by Alyson Richman
Rails Under My Back by Jeffery Renard
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Slapboxing with Jesus: Stories by Victor D. Lavelle
Review by Steven W. Lawler
Wednesday January 6, 2000
New York Times
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiassen
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Tuesday January 5, 2000
Mew York Times
My Century by Gunther Grass
Review by Richard Bernstein
Monday January 3, 2000
New York Times
The Fan-Maker's Inquisition by Rikki Ducornet
Review by Richard Bernstein
Sunday January 2, 2000
New York Times Book Review
In the Gloaming: Stories by Alice Elliott Dark
Review by Katherine Dieckmann
Swarm: Poems by Jorie Graham
Review by Richard Eder
Lying With the Enemy by Tim Binding
Review by Alan Furst
Those Bones Are Not My Child by Toni Cade Bambara
Review by Sven Birkerts
Books in Brief:
You Can Sleep While I Drive: Stories by Liza Wieland
Review by Liam Callanan
The Millennium by Coerte V.W. Felske
Review by Melanie Rehak
Distant Road: Selected Poems by Nguyen Duy
Review by Philip Gambone
Look Back All the Green Valley by Fred Chappell
Review by Beth Wolfensberger Singer
A Window Facing West by John S. Tarlton
Review by Erik Burns
Washington Post Book World
The Jook by Gary Phillips
Review by Brian Gilmore
Sherlock Holmes and the Rune Stone Mystery by Larry Millett
Review by Guy Amirthanayagam
San Francisco Chronicle
Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
Review by Andrew Roe
Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve
Review by Sunil Iyengar
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Remember Me by Laura Hendrie
Review by Sarah Saffian
Apologizing to Dogs by Joe Coomer
Review by Floyd Skloot
LA Times
In the Gloaming by Alice Elliott Dark
Review by Jonathan Levi
Bogeywoman by Jaimy Gordon
Review by Judith Dunford
Hunting Badger by Tony Hillerman
Review by Anthony Day
Discoveries:
Tula Station by David Toscana
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiassen
So I Am Glad by A.L. Kennedy
Miss Wyoming by Douglas Coupland
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Slapboxing with Jesus by Victor D. Lavelle
Review by Steven W. Lawler
Sick Puppy by Carl Hiassen
Review by Harry Levins
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