July 2005 |
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Sunday July 31, 2005
New York Times Book Review
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J.K. Rowling
Review by Liesl Schillinger
Chronicle:
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
An Outline of the Republic by Siddhartha Deb
Bitter Fruit by Achmat Dangor
Desertion by Abdulrazak Gurnath
Young Turk by Moris Farhi
Review by Anderson Tepper
The Method Actors by Carl Shuker
Review by Neil Gordon
Adored by Tily Bagshawe
Review by Elissa Schappell
Washington Post Book World
A Little Love Story by Roland Merullo
Review by Donna Rifkind
Incendiary by Chris Cleave
Review by Brigitte Weeks
Crawl Space by Edie Meidav
Review by Thomas Kenneally
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
Review by Ron Charles
Break, Blow, Burn by Camille Paglia
Review by Stephen Burt
San Francisco Chronicle
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Review by Amy Westervelt
Dying Light an Other Stories by Donald Hays
Review by Stephen J. Lyons
Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj
Review by Kim Hedges
Chicago Tribune
Lost in the Forest by Sue Miller
The Ice Queen by Alice Hoffman
Review by Laura Demanski
Responsible Men by Edward Schwarzschild
Review by Carey Harrison
Mr. Muo's Travelling Couch by Dai Sijie
Review by Susan Hall-Balduf
Boston Globe
Lighthousekeeping by Jeanette Winterson
Review by John Freeman
Envy by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Sandra Shea
The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh
Review by Thrity Umrigar
LA Times
Woman by Richard Matheson
Review by Jonathan Kirsch
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan
Review by Susan Slater Reynolds
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Wednesday July 27, 2005
New York Times
The Task Of This Translator by Todd Hasak-Lowy
Review by Richard Eder
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Sunday July 24, 2005
New York Times Book Review
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Walter Kirn
A Way From Home by Nancy Clark
Review by Liesl Schillinger
Star Dust by Frank Bidart
Review by Langdon Hammer
The Interruption of Everything by Terry McMillan
Review by Chelsea Cain
The Loss of Leon Meed by Josh Emmons
Review by Maud Newton
We're All in This Together by Owen King
Review by Jon Zobenica
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Review by Tom Shone
Washington Post Book World
Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan
Review by maureen Corrigan
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Review by Allen Barra
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Review by Tom Paine
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart by Lydia Millet
Review by Sheri Holman
Spies by Marcel Beyer
Review by Ron Charles
Chain of Comand by Caspar Weinberger
Review by Andrew O'Hehir
Let The Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
Review by Jabari Asim
San Francisco Chronicle
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by David Hellman
The History of Vegas by Jodi Angel
Review by Brad Vice
Submission by Marthe Blau
Review by Jamie Berger
Envy by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Carnivore Diet by Julia Slavin
Review by Megan Harlan
Chicago Tribune
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Alan Cheuse
Trance by Christopher Sorrentino
Review by David L. Ulin
Boston Globe
The Coast of Akron by Adrienne Miller
Review by Daniel Akst
Wild Dogs by Helen Humphreys
Review by Jodi Daynard
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Gail Caldwell
LA Times
Savage Garden by Denise Hamilton
Review by Michael Harris
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Eric Miles Williamson
Man Camp by Adriene Brodeur
Review by Irene Wanner
Solitude and Other Stories by Arturo Vivante
Review by Merrill Joan Gerber
Mr. Muo's Traveling Couch by Dai Sijie
Review by Irene Wanner
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Monday July 18, 2005
New York Times
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday July 17, 2005
New York Times Book Review
Until I Find You by John Irving
Review by Paul Gray
Last Call for Blackford Oakes by William F. Buckley
Review by Charlie Rubin
Poetry Chronicle:
While We've Still Got Feet by David Budbill
Tantalus in Love by Alan Shapiro
The Last Time I saw Amelia Earhart by Gabrielle Calvocoressi
Lettered Creatures by Brad Leithauser
Pyx by Corinne Lee
Ledger by Susan Wheeler
Crush by Richard Siken
This Connection of Everyone With Lungs by Juliana Spahr
The Eclipse by David Woo
Review by Joel Brouwer and Joshua Clover
Envy by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Emily Nussbaum
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
Review by Lesley Downer
A Long Stay in a Distant Land by Chieh Chieng
Review by Claire Dederer
The Last Flight of the Flamingo by Mia Couto
Review by Rob Nixon
Washington Post Book World
Carnivore Diet by Julia Slavin
Review by Jonathan Yardley
No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Jeffrey Lent
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Review by Ron Charles
Envy by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Charles Taylor
Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
Review by Ethan Canin
The Interruption of Everything by Terry MacMillan
Review by Jabari Asim
San Francisco Chronicle
Brain Work by Michael Guista
Review by Joel Whitney
Sky Burial by Xinran Xue
Review by Robert Walch
Deadly Slipper by Michelle Wan
Review by Clea Simon
Star Dust by Frank Bidart
Everything is Burning by Gerald Stern
Review by Megan Harlan
The Every Boy by Dana Adam Shapiro
Review by Eric Reyes
Hide and Seek by Clare Sambrook
Review by Tess Taylor
The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks
Review by David Lazarus
Chicago Tribune
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Review by Alan Cheuse
The Practice of Deceit by Elizabeth benedict
Review by Janice P. Nimura
St. Louis Post Dispatch
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Cliff Froehlich
LA Times
98 Reasons for Being by Clare Dudman
Review by Richard Eder
It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick
Review by Benjamin Kunkel
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Thursday July 14, 2005
New York Times
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Tuesday July 12, 2005
New York Times
Until I Find You by John Irving
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Christian Science Monitor
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Yvonne Zipp
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Sunday July 10, 2005
New York Times Book Review
The Golden West by Daniel Fuchs
Review by Sam Tanenhaus
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
Review by Henry Alford
Johnny Mad Dog by Emmanuel Dongala
Review by Luisita Lopez Torregrosa
Music of the Mill by Luis J. Rodriguez
The People of Paper by Salvador Plasencia
Review by Nathaniel Rich
Canaan's Tongue by John Wray
Review by Sam Lipsyte
Freddy and Fredericka by Mark Helprin
Review by Sven Birkerts
Washington Post Book World
What Casanova Told Me by Susan Swan
Review by Geraldine Brooks
Until I Find You by John Irving
Review by Marianne Wiggins
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Review by nancy Rawles
It's All Right Now by Charles Chadwick
Review by Adam Mazmanian
San Francisco Chronicle
Responsible Men by Edawrd Schwarzschild
Review by June Sawyers
Big Cats by Holiday Reinhorn
Review by Carlo Wolff
Until I Find You by John Irving
Review by Alan Cheuse
Freddy and Fredericka by mark Helprin
Review by Selina O'Grady
Chicago Tribune
Until I Find You by John Irving
Review by Carol Anshaw
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards
Review by Jessica Treadway
Envy by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Art Winslow
Boston Globe
72 Hour Hold by Bebe Moore Campbell
Review by Jessica Treadway
Homesick Creek by Diane Hammond
Envy by Kathryn Harrison
Rococo by Adriana Trigiani
Review by Diane White
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Sunday July 3, 2005
New York Times Book Review
The Hummingbird's Daughter by Luis Alberto Urrea
Review by Stacey D'Erasmo
Deliver Me From Nowhere by Tennessee Jones
Meeting Across the River: Edited by Jessica Kay and Richard J. Brewer
Review by A.O. Scott
A Day, a Night, Another Day, Summer by Christine Schutt
Review by David Kirby
Fiction Chronicle:
Pretty Birds by Scott Simon
The Bowl is Already Broken by Mary Kay Zuraleff
The Writing on the Wall by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
North by Frederick Busch
My name is Legion by A.N. Wilson
Chain of Command by Caspar Weinberger and Peter Schweizer
Review by Gregory Cowles
Breath and Bones by Susann Cokal
The Painted Kiss by Elizabeth Hickey
Review by Dawn Drzal
Washington Post Book World
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana by Umberto Eco
Review by Umberto Eco
The Good Priest's Son by Reynolds Price
Review by Gail Godwin
The Icarus Girl by Helen Oyeyemi
Review by Heather Hewett
A Way From Home by Nancy Clark
Review by Ron Charles
San Francisco Chronicle
Belly by Lisa Selin Davis
Review by Roland Goity
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Review by sara Peyton
The Bitch Posse by Martha O'Connor
Review by Joseph Di Prisco
The Crazyladies of Pearl Street by Trevanian
Review by Larry Tritten
Chicago Tribune
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
A Perfect Stranger by Roxana Robinson
Review by Jessica Treadway
In the Dark of the Moon by Suzanne Hudson
Review by Lynna Williams
The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories by Bily Lombardo
Review by David Schmittgens
We're in Trouble by Christopher Coake
The Task of This Translator by Todd Hasak-Lowy
Abundant Light by valerie Miner
Review by Elizabeth Hoover
Boston Globe
My Name is Legion by A.N. Wilson
Review by Howard Frank Mosher
Small Island by Andrea Levy
Review by Mameve Medwed
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