July 2002 |
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Sunday July 28, 2002
New York Times Book Review
The Emperor's Babe by Bernardine Evaristo
Darlington's Fall by Brad Leithauser
Review by Eric McHenry
When Eve Was Naked by Josef Skvorecky
Review by Laura Secor
A Thing (or Two) About Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler
Review by Valerie Sayers
City by Alessandro Baricco
Review by Richard Eder
Peter Loon by Van Reid
Review by David Willis McCullough
Books in Brief:
American Sonnets by Gerald Stern
Review by J.T. Barbarese
Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
Review by Barbara Sutton
Social Crimes by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
Review by Sarah Haight
Man Walks Into A Room by Nicole Krauss
Review by Meredith Blum
Spilling Clarence by Ann Ursu
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Sheepshagger by Miall Griffiths
Review by Andrew Santella
Washington Post Book World
The Last Summer by John Hough
Review by Roxanna Robinson
Ariel's Crossing by Bradford Morrow
Review by John Biguenet
The Revenant by Michael Punke
Review by Daniel McMahon
True Hope by Frank Manley
Review by Daniel Woodrell
San Francisco Chronicle
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Review by David Kipen
Ash Wednesday by Ethan Hawke
Review by David Wiegand
Constance by Catherine Cantrell
Review by Ken Foster
The Portable Promised Land by Toure
Review by Adam Dunn
Frontera Dreams by Paco Ignacio Taibo
Review by Steve Hermanos
This War Called Love by Alejandro Murguis
Review by Max Winter
Critical Injuries by Joan Barfoot
Review by Kevin Smokler
A Brief History of the Flood by Jean Harfenist
Review by Kate Washington
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun
Review by J. Alex Tarquinio
Chicago Tribune
The Hermit's Story by Rick Bass
Review by John Freeman
Noble Norfleet by Reynolds Price
Review by David Kirby
Philadelphia Inquirer
Simon Silber: Works for Solo Piano by Christopher Miller
Review by Robin Black
Conscious and Verbal by Les Murray
Review by Scott Edward Anderson
LA Times
Iceland by Jim Krusoe
Review by Jeff Turrentine
Prague by Arthur Phillips
Review by Heller McAlpin
Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
Review by Michael Harris
The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
Review by Dan Schifrin
Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
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Sunday July 21, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Prague by Arthur Phillips
The Winter Zoo by John Beckman
Review by Adam Goodheart
Half in Love by Maile Meloy
Review by Jean Thompson
You Are Not a Stranger Here by Adam Haslett
Review by Craig Seligman
The Ascent of Eli Israel: And Other Stories by Jon Papernick
Review by Noah Richler
Pasadena by David Ebershoff
Review by Martha Bayles
Washington Post Book World
Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester
Review by Jonathan Yardley
When Eve Was Naked by Josef Skvorecky
Review by Zofia Smardz
Nectar by Lily Prior
Review by Nancy McKeon
Inez by Carlos Fuentes
Review by Joseph McClellan
Lovely Green Eyes by Arnost Lustig
Review by Kit Reed
Human Landscapes From My Country by Nazim Hikmet
Poems of Nazim Hikmet
Review by Chris King
The Silence of the Rain by Liuz Alfredo Garcia-Roza
The Club of Angels by Luis Fernando Verissimo
Review by Alan Ryan
Aminadab by Maurice Blanchot
Review by Thomas McGonigle
Angel Rock by Darren Williams
Review by Deborah Kalb
San Francisco Chronicle
Pasadena by David Ebershoff
Review by David Kipen
The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner
Review by Anthony Giardina
The White by Deborah Larsen
Review by Alan Cheuse
That's True of Everybody by Mark Winegardner
Review by Kevin Smokler
The Snowfly by Joseph Heywood
Review by John Jay Osborn
Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake by James McCourt
Review by Charles Solomon
Twelve by Nick McDonell
Review by Mark Luce
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Hangman's Knot by David Wiltse
Review by Richard Fuller
The Moment She Was Gone by Evan Hunter
Review by Martha Woodall
The Weather in Berlin by Ward Just
Review by Richard Burgin
LA Times
First Fiction:
Passing Strange by Sally MacLeod
The Solace of Leaving Early by Haven Kimmel
Himalayan Dhaba by Craig Joseph Danner
Review by Mark Rozzo
Under Radar by Michael Harris
Review by Michael Tolkin
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
Review by Jonathan Levi
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Sunday July 14, 2002
New York Times Book Review
The Monk Downstairs by Tim Farrington
Review by Karen Karbo
The Whore's Child by Richard Russo
Review by Rand Richards Cooper
Twelve by Nick McDonell
Review by Jennifer Egan
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Review by Katherine Bouton
Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley
Review by Marilyn Stasio
Books in Brief:
Meet John Trow by Thomas Dyja
Review by Adam Mazmanian
Coal Miner's Holiday: Stories by Kiki DeLancey
Review by William Ferguson
Angel Rock by Darren Williams
Review by Taylor Antrim
Narcissus Acending by Karen McKinnon
Review by Sarah Haight
The White Tattoo by William J. Cobb
Review by Patricia Kean
Revenge by Stephen Fry
Review by Brooke Allen
Washington Post Book World
Henderson's Spear by Roandl White
Review by Kate Washington
Mary, Called Magdalene by Margatret George
Review by Ann Wroe
Prague by Arthur Phillips
Review by Julian Rubinstein
The Education of Mrs. Bemis by John Sedgwick
Review by Maud Casey
God's Fool by Mark Slouka
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
San Francisco Chronicle
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Review by David Kipen
Housewrights by Art Corriveau
Review by Laura Fraser
The Real McCoy by Darin Strauss
Review by Max Winter
Selected Poems 1950-2000 by Nathaniel Tarn
Review by Andrew Ervin
Chicgo Tribune
True to Form by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Lynna Williams
Money to Burn by James Zagel
Review by Dick Adler
The Fourth Treasure by Todd Shimoda
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Porter Shreve
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Review by Dan Cryer
Philadelphia Inquirer
Gold Rush by Miri Yu
Review by Lionel Shriver
I'm Telling by Karen Quinnes Miller
Review by Susan Balee
Frontera Street by Tanya Maria Barrientos
Review by Meredith Broussard
LA Times
The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
Review by Adam Kirsch
House Under Snow by Jill Bialosky
Review by Francie Lin
The Trolley by Claude Simon
Review by Thomas McGonigle
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Tuesday July 9, 2002
New York Times
Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
Review by Maureen Dowd
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Monday July 8, 2002
New York Times
The Whore's Child and Other Stories by Richard Russo
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday July 7, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Review by Gary Krist
Martin Sloane by Michael Redhill
Review by Bliss Broyard
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
Review by Richard Eder
Lands of Memory by Felisberto Hernandez
Review by Michael Pye
Washington Post Book World
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by Jane Ciabattari
The Weather in Berlin by Ward Just
Review by Jonathan Carroll
Casanova in Bohemia by Andre Codrescu
Review by Brigitte Weeks
Narcissus Ascending by Karne McKinnon
Review by Jenny McPhee
The Portable Promised Land: Stories by Toure
Review by Jake Lamar
San Francisco Chronicle
Prague by Arthur Phillips
Review by Andrew Roe
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Review by David Kipen
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Review by Monica Wood
Waiting Period by Hubert Selby
Review by Alan Kaufman
The Deadly Space Between by Patricia Duncker
Review by Laura Fraser
Hard Eight by Janet Evanovich
Review by Mary Ann Koory
Perma Red by Debra Magpie
Review by Peter Lewis
Half in Love by Maile Meloy
Review by John Freeman
Chicago Tribune
The Whore's Child and Other Stories by Richard Russo
Review by Brian Bouldrey
The Emperor of OCean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Review by Laurie Muchnick
Philadelphia Inquirer
At the Jim Bridger by Ron Carlson
Review by Benjamin Austen
The Cyclist by Viken Berberian
Review by Tirdad Derakhshani
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by John Freeman
LA Times
The Dead Circus by John Kaye
Waiting Period by Hubert Selby
My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper
Review by David Ebershoff
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Review by Paula L. Woods
Bad Boy Brawly Brown by Walter Mosley
Review by Thomas Curwen
Pasadena by David Ebershoff
Review by David Plante
Wayfaring at Waverly in Silver Lake by James McCourt
Review by GaVin Lambert
First Fiction:
River Thieves by Michael Crummey
Half in Love by Maile Meloy
The Box Children by Sharon Wyse
Review by Mark Rozzo
Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Review by Michael Harris
Discoveries:
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake
I by Stephen Dixon
Twelve by Nick McDonell
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Wednesday July 3, 2002
New York Times
Revenge by Stephen Fry
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mercury by Cary Holladay
Review by Sandra Scofield
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Tuesday July 2, 2002
Philadelphia Inquirer
Abou and the Angel Cohen by Claude Campbell
Review by Tirdad Derakshani
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