June 2002 |
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Sunday June 30, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
Review by Lisa Zeidner
The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
Review by A.O. Scott
Fragrant Harbor by John Lanchester
Review by Sophie Harrison
Ariel's Crossing by Bradford Morrow
Review by Jay Parini
Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Ken Tucker
Books in Brief:
Disappearing Ingenue by Melissa Pritchard
Review by Jennifer Marie Reese
Last Year's Jesus by Ellen Slezak
Review by Chris Colin
Salt by Isabel Zuber
Review by Betsy Groban
The Demon of Longing: Short Stories by Gail Gilliland
Review by Etelka Lehoczky
Hollow Ground by Stephen Marion
Review by Ann Abel
Valentine by Lucius Shepard
Review by Jemima Hunt
This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun
Review by William Ferguson
Washington Post Book World
Meet John Trow by Thomans Dyja
Review by Chris Bohjalian
April Witch by Majgull Axelsson
Review by Zofia Smardz
The Season of Lillian Dawes by Katherine Mosby
Review by Joyce Johnson
The Egg Code by Mick Heppner
Review by Curtis White
Gallow's Thief by Bernard Cornwell
Review by Max Berley
The Treasure of Montsegur by Sophy Burnham
Review by Stephen O'Shea
International Fiction:
City by Alessandro Barico
Ecstasy by Sudhit Kakar
Spring Flowers, Spring Frost by Ismail Kadare
The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Samoza
Boxwood by Camilo Jose Cela
Review by Sanford Pinsker
San Francisco Chronicle
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Review by Carey Harrison
Moral Hazard by Kate Jennings
Review by Jane Ciabattari
The Russian Debutante's Handbook by Gary Shteyngart
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Mary, Called Magdalene by Margaret George
Review by Megan Harlan
Songs and Sonnets by Larry Beckett
Review by Alexandra Yurkovsky
Shoppers by Denis Johnson
Review by Robert Hurwitt
Chicago Tribune
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Review by Conan Putnam
Holiday by Susan Hahn
Mother in Summer by Susan Hahn
Review by David Kirby
Oyster by John Biguenet
Review by John Gregory Brown
Philadelphia Inquirer
Narcissus Ascending by Karen McKinnon
Review by Carlin Romano
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
Review by Christine Thomas
LA Times
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by Michael Harris
The Memory Room by Mary Rakow
Review by Jonathan Kirsch
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Sunday June 23, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Noble Norfleet by Reynolds Price
Review by Tony Earley
The Weather in Berlin by Ward Just
Review by Rand Richards Cooper
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by Daniel Zalewski
The Idea of Perfection by Kate Grenville
Review by Sylvia Brownrigg
Five Boys by Mick Jackson
Review by Tom Shone
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Review by John Crowley
Washington Post Book World
Oyster by John Biguenet
Review by Bliss Broyard
The Dream of Scipio by Iain Pears
Review by Geraldine Brooks
Sunday Jews by Hortense Calisher
Review by Susan Jacoby
Girl From the South by Joanna Trollope
Review by Christopher Tilghman
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts
Review by Ira Berlin
San Francisco Chronicle
I by Stephen Dixon
Review by David Kipen
Anything Goes by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Steve Kettmann
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Review by Jonathan Kiefer
Big If by Mark Costello
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Land Where My Father Died by Joe Edd Morris
Review by Max Winter
Sheepshagger by Niall Griffiths
Review by Alan Kaufman
Meet John Trow by Thomas Dyja
Review by Dan Cryer
My Loose Thread by Dennis Cooper
Review by Dodie Bellamy
When Eve Was Naked by Josef Skvorecky
Review by Jason Roberts
Chicago Tribune
The Haunting of L by Howard Norman
Review by Carey Harrison
Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan
Review by Brian Bouldrey
Philadelphia Inquirer
Instances of the Number 3 by Salley Vickers
Review by Susan Balee
LA Times
First Fiction:
God's Fool by Mark Slouka
Point Fury by John Maxwell
Confessing Murder by Nicholas Drayson
Review by Mark Rozzo
Strand of a Thousand Pearls by Dorit Rabinyan
Review by Erica Da Costa
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Sunday June 16, 2002
New York Times Book Review
The Laying on of Hands: Stories by Alan Bennett
Review by Christopher Buckley
Big If by Mark Costello
Review by Jay McInerney
This Cold Country by Annabel Davis-Goff
Review by Alida Becker
Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark
Review by Adam Goodheart
Three Junes by Julia Glass
Review by Katherine Wolff
Beautiful Bodies by Laura Shaine Cunningham
Review by Laura Jamison
Under Radar by Michael Tolkin
Review by Charles Taylor
Books in Brief:
Flotsam & Jetsam by Aidan Higgins
Review by Michael Porter
Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario
Review by James Polk
The Vine of Desire by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Review by Helen Pitt
The Education of Mrs. Bemis by John Sedgwick
Review by Nell Casey
Still Life With Waterfall by Eamon Grennan
Review by David Barber
I Don't Know But I've Been Told by Raul Correa
Review by Ishan Taylor
Washington Post Book World
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Review by Jonathan Dee
Sparrow Nights by David Gilmour
Review by James Hynes
Flotsam and Jetsam by Aidan Higgins
Review by Annie Proulx
Fiction:
Married But Still Looking by Travis Hunter
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters by Timothy Schaffert
My Life in Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
I Don't Know But I've Been Told by Raul Correa
Stormy Weather by Michael Meehan
Review by Bill Kent
San Francisco Chronicle
Under Radar by Michael Tolkin
Review by David Kipen
Narcissus Ascending by Karen McKinnon
Review by Kera Bolonik
God's Fool by Mark Slouka
Review by Andrew Ervin
The Solace of Leaving by Haven Kimmel
Review by Miriam Wolf
Man Walks Into A Room by Nicole Krauss
Review by Jesse Berrett
One Hot Summer by Carolina Garcia-Aguilera
Review by Danielle Svetcov
Malaise by Nancy Lemann
Review by Robin Beeman
Boomeritis by Ken Wilber
Review by Don Lattin
The Athenian Murders by Jose Carlos Somoza
Review by Christine Thomas
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits by Emma Donoghue
Review by Laurie Kaplan
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
Review by Marc Schogol
Chicago Tribune
Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss
Review by Dan Cryer
LA Times
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Review by Francie Lin
The Wanderer: Selected Stories by Robert Walser
Review by Benjamin Kunkel
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Sunday June 9, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Nuremburg by William F. Buckley
Review by Joseph Kanon
The Season of Lillian Dawes by Katherine Mosby
Review by Brooke Allen
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Review by Ward Just
Across Open Ground by Heather Parkinson
Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent
The Sound of the Trees by Robert Gatewood
Review by Will Blythe
The Golems of Gotham by Thane Rosenbaum
Review by Gavin McNett
Deep in the Shade of Paradise by John Dufresne
Review by Robert Kelly
Walk Through Darkness by David Anthony Durham
Review by Anthony Walton
Washington Post Book World
Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentine
Review by Jeffrey Frank
Rouse Up, O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe
Review by Elizabeth Ward
The Memory Room by Mary Rakow
Review by John Palattella
The Incantation of Frida K. by Kate Braverman
Review by David Huddle
San Francsico Chronicle
Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw
Review by Miriam Wolf
Oyster by John Biguenet
Review by Brad Vice
Noble Norfleet by Reynolds Price
Review by David Finkle
The Weather in Berlin by Ward Just
Review by Floyd Skloot
You're an Animal, Viskovitz by Alessandro Boffa
Review by Alan Kaufman
Martin Sloane by Michael Rehill
Review by Brad Vice
Happiness by Will Ferguson
Review by Charles Solomon
Chicago Tribune
Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Review by Dan Santow
Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
Review by Donna Seaman
Philadelphia Inquirer
Skin by April Lindner
Review by Frank Wilson
A Mist of Prophecies by Steven Saylor
Review by Marietta Dunn
You're an Animal, Viskovitz by Alessandro Boffa
Review by David Walton
Courting Trouble by Lisa Scottoline
Review by Edna Stumpf
LA Times
The Maimed by Hermann Ungar
Review by Thomas McGonigle
First Fiction:
A Thing or TWo About Curtis and Camilla by Nick Fowler
Narcissus Ascending by Karen McKinnon
Losing Gemma by Katy Gardner
Review by Mark Rozzo
The Company by Robert Littell
Review by Eugen Weber
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Sunday June 2, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Sunday Jews by Hortense Calisher
Review by Emily Barton
Malaise by Nancy Lemann
Review by Karen Karbo
Washington Post Book World
Video by Meera Nair
Review by Jeffrey Paine
Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley
Review by Michael Griffith
Fiction:
It's my F---ing Birthday by Merrill Markoe
The End of Marriage by Nina Vida
Letting the Body Lead by Jenn Crowell
Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw
Man Walks Into a Room by Nicole Krauss
Review by Michele Wolf
San Francisco Chronicle
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by James Sullivan
The Haunting Of L by Howard Norman
Review by David Kipen
The Names of Rivers by Dan Buckman
Review by Gerald Nicosia
Philadelphia Inquierer
Flashover by Suzanne Chazin
Review by Sheri Melnick
Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
Review by Meredith Broussard
LA Times
You're an Animal, Viskovitz by Alessandro Boffa
Review by Laura Ciokowski
Eleazar, Exodus to the West by Michel Tournier
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry
Review by Michael Harris
Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent
Review by Nick Owchar
City by Allesandro Baricco
Review by Jane Ciabattari
Sunday Jews by Hortense Calisher
Review by Jill Laurie Goodman
Man Walks Into A Room by Nicole Krauss
Review by Jeff Turrentine
The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter
Review by Jonathan Shapiro
The Weather in Berlin by Ward Just
Review by Joseph Kanon
Discoveries:
Trespass by Grace Dane Mazur
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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