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July 2000 |
Sunday July 30, 2000
New York Times
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
Review by Richard Eder
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Review by Andre Alexis
Harry Gold by Millicent Dillon
Review by Elena Lappin
Books in Brief:
Five by Endo by Shusako Endo
Review by Janice P. Nimura
A Twist at the End by Steven Saylot
Review by Liam Callanan
The Lake by Daniel Villasenor
Review by Charles Flowers
When I Was Five I Killed Myself by Howard Buten
Review by Cynthia Joyce
Blameless by Lisa Reardon
Review by Kristen Martin
Washington Post Book World
Magic Terror: Seven Tales by Peter Straub
Review by Elizabeth Hand
Daemonomania by John Crowley
Review by John Clute
Make Believe
by Joanna Scott
Review by Deborah Sussman Susser
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
Review by David Guy
San Francisco Chronicle
The Meaning of Lunch: Short Stories by Dan Leone
Review by Rebecca Solnit
Grange House by Sarah Blake
Review by Bella Stander
False Alarm by Heather Drohan
Be the One by April Smith
Review by Mark Luce
The Color of Summer by Reinalso Arenas
Review by Brian Bouldrey
Marrying the Mistress by Joanna Trollope
Review by Cathryn Alpert
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
Review by Erik Tarloff
Philadelphia Inquirer
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
Review by Susan Balee
The Black Rose by Tananarive Due
Review by Quinn Eli
LA Times
Discoveries:
Windchill Summer by Norris Church Mailer
A Man of Character by Paola Capriolo
Little Saint by Hannah Green
Stop Breaking Down by John McManus
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Chicago Tribune
Rails Under My Back by Jefffrey Renard Allen
Review by James Smethurst
Vertigo by W.G. Seebald
Review by Sara Miller
Friday July 28, 2000
Washington Post
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
Review by Carolyn See
Wednesday July 26, 2000
New York Times
An Invisible Sign Of My Own by Aimee Bender
Review by Richard Bernstein
Monday July 24, 2000
New York Times
A Blind Man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
Review by Janet Maslin
Sunday July 23, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri: Translated by W.S. Merwin
Review by Daniel Mendelsohn
Female Ruins by Geoff Nicholson
Review by Matthew Klam
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Review by Stephen King
The Cosmos Poems by Frederick Siedel
Review by Albert Mobilio
Affinity by Sarah Waters
Review by Nancy Willard
Books in Brief:
Light House by William Monahan
Review by William Georgiades
A & R by Bill Flanagan
Review by Mark Oppenheimer
To Kill the Pope by Tad Szulc
Review by David Kirby
The Probable World by Lawrence Raab
Review by Matthew Flamm
A Double Life by Frederic Raphael
Review by Daniel Reitz
Mamzelle Dragonfly by Raphael Confiant
Review by Mark Luce
Washington Post Book World
The Sibyl in Her Grave by Sarah Caudwell
Review by Nina King
Wild Life by Molly Gloss
Review by Kit Reed
He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
Review by Marthe Arends
A Twist At the End by Steven Saylor
Review by David Stanhower
The Black Rose by Tananarive Due
Review by Robin Givhan
The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dolby
Review by Elizabeth Ward
Short Stories:
Pastoralia by George Saunders
Dream Stuff by David Malouf
How It Was For Me by Andrew Sean Greer
Review by Greg Varner
San Francisco Chronicle
A Pure Clear Light by Madeleine St. John
Review by Sarah Coleman
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
Review by Mary Eisenhart
Elegy For Kosovo by Ismail Kadare
Review by Alix Christie
Mosaic Man by Ronald Sukenick
Review by Eric Miles Williamson
Female Ruins by Geoff Nicholson
Review by Christopher Hawthorne
Philadelphia Inquirer
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
Review by Shashank Bengali
The Notorious Dr. August; His Real Life and Crimes by Christopher
Bram
Review by Peter Landry
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
Review by Madison Smartt Bell
LA Times
The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Merle Rubin
First Fiction:
Light House by William Monahan
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Fake Liar Cheat by Tod Goldberg
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
In the Yucatan by Earl Shorris
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing
Review by Nancy Shapiro
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
Review by Sue Bradford Edwards
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Review by Gail Pennington
The Black Rose by Tananarive Due
Review by Naima A. Wartts
Friday July 21, 2000
New York Times
Be the One by April Smith
Review by Richard Bernstein
Washington Post
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Review by Carolyn See
Monday July 17, 2000
LA Times
Wyoming by Barry Gifford
Review by Merle Rubin
Sunday July 16, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling
Review by Alida Becker
The Confirmation by Thomas Powers
Spytime by William F. Buckley
Review by Erik Tarloff
Be the One by April Smith
Review by David Kelly
The River King by Alice Hoffman
Review by Amanda Fortini
Normal Girl by Molly Jong-Fast
Review by Lucinda Rosenfeld
The Last Night I spent With You by Mayra Montero
Review by James Polk
A Girl With a Monkey: New and Selected Stories by Leonard Michaels
Review by Tobin Harshaw
Chicano Chicanery: Short Stories by Daniel Chacon
Review by Tom LeClair
In The Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
Review by Suzanne Ruta
The Deep Field by James Bradley
Review by David Sacks
The Sleep-Over Artist by Thomas Beller
Review by Katherine Dieckmann
Books in Brief:
An Unfortunate Woman by Richard Brautigan
Review by Etelka Lehoczky
Omerta by Mario Puzo
Review by Rodger Lyle Brown
Pure by Rebbecca Ray
Review by Lori Leibovich
Julie and Romeo by Jeanne Ray
Review by Barbara Quick
Deep in the Heart by Sharon Oard Warner
Review by Paula Friedman
Washington Post Book World
Be the One by April Smith
Review by Ranald Totten
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Review by Marie Arana
The Color of Summer by Reinaldo Arenas
Review by Jaime Manrique
Getting Over It by Anna Maxted
Welcome To My Planet by Shannon Olson
Review by Louis Bayard
Jane Austen's Charlotte by Julia Barrett
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
Stonedial by George Konrad
Review by Marie Arana
Sam The Cat by Matthew Klam
Review by James Hynes
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
Pure Poetry by Bonnie Kirshenbaum
Review by Anne Glusker
Philadelphia Inquirer
Death Benefit by Philip Harper
Review by Stuart M. Kaminsky
San Francisco Chronicle
An Invisible Sign of My Own by Aimee Bender
Review by Gina Nahai
The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby
Review by Leza Lowitz-Oketani
Vertigo by W.G. Seebald
Review by Millicent Dillon
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
Review by Ken Foster
LA Times
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Satyricon by Petronius; Translated by Sarah Ruden
Review by Peter Green
Friday July 14, 2000
New York Times
The Name of the World by Denis Johnston
Review by Richard Eder
Tuesday July 11, 2000
New York Times
Tuff by Paul Beattty
Review by Richard Bernstein
Monday July 10, 2000
New York Times
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Review by Janet Maslin
Sunday July 9, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
Review by Robert Stone
Ten Women Who Shook the World by Sylvia Brownrigg
Review by John Lanchester
The Naked Detective by Laurence Shames
Review by David Lehman
Freud's "Megalomania" by Israel Rosenfeild
Review by Adam Phillips
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Review by Sheryl WuDunn
Plum & Jaggers by Susan Richards Shreve
Review by Craig Seligman
Odysey by Homer; Translated by Stanley Lombardo
Review by Chris Hedges
Like Normal People by Karen E. Bender
Review by Suzanne Berne
Book in Brief:
Marrying the Mistress by Joanna Trollope
Review by Abby Frucht
Beautiful WASPS Having Sex by Dori Carter
Review by Dana Kennedy
The Mystified Magistrate and Other Tale by the Marquis de Sade
Review by Catherine Saint Louis
Light at Dusk by Peter Godol
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
The Special Prisoner by Jim Lehrer
Review by Eden Ross Lipson
Chicago Tribune
Iceweaver by Margaret Lawrence
Review by Shelby Hearon
LA Times
The Boomer by Marty Asher
Review by Hal Espin
Discoveries:
Beautiful WASPS Having Sex by Dori Carter
The Slep-Over Artist by Thomas Beller
In The name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Sunday July 2, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Married Man by Edmund White
Review by Alice Truax
Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
Review by Richard Eder
What We Don't Know About Children by Simona Vinci
Review by Albert Mobilio
Stonedial by George Konrad
Review by Richard Laurie
Fludd by Hilary Mantel
Review by Patricia T. O'Conner
Washington Post Book World
Beautiful Wasps Having Sex by Dori Carter
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Jim The Boy by Tony Earley
Review by Jabari Asim
When I Was Five I killed Myself by Howard Buten
Review by Rick Whitaker
Ladysmith by Giles Foden
Review by Neil Gordon
The Third Eye by David Knowles
Just Passing Through by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Review by Lev Raphael
First Fiction:
World of Pies by Karen Stoltz
The Total View of Taftly by Scott Morris
Nike by Nicholas Flokos
Normal Girl by Molly Jong-Fast
Fundamentals of Play by Caitlin Macy
Review by Heather Hewett
San Francisco Chronicle
The Confirmation by Thomas Powers
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
The Notorious Dr. August: His Real Life and Crimes by Christopher
Bram
Review by Daniel Akst
The Toy Collector by James Gunn
Review by Richard Rayner
Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
Review by Chris Bohjalian
Use Me by Elissa Schappell
Review by Dennis Loy Johnson
Storm Riders by Craig Lesley
Review by Marit Haarh
Philadelphia Inquirer
Wild Life by Molly Gloss
Review by Gregory L. Morris
Gone for the Soldiers by Jeff Shaara
Review by Desmond Ryan
LA Times
First Fiction:
Normal Girl by Molly Jong-Fast
Stacking in Rivertown by Barbara Bell
A & R by Bill Flanagan
Review by Mark Rozzo
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Forest by Edward Rutherfurd
Review by Harry Levins
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