June 2000 |
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Sunday June 25, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson
Review by Stephanie Zacharek
The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks
Review by A.O. Scott
No Great Mischief by Alistair MacLeod
Review by Thomas Mallon
Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson
Review by Emily Barton
The Fortunes of Wangrin by Amadou Hampate Ba
Review by Caryl Phillips
Angus: A Memoir by Charles Siebert
Review by Diane Peck
Destiny by Tim Parks
Review by Geoff Nicholson
Books in Brief:
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal
Review by Jennifer Reese
The Republic of Wine by Mo Yan
Review by Philip Gambone
Keeneland by Alyson Hagy
Review by Sally Eckoff
Demons & Divas by Ursule Molinaro
Review by William Ferguson
Night of Amber by Sylvie Germain
Review by Michael Porter
The Colored Garden by O.H. Bennett
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Washington Post Book World
Dog Company Six by Edwin Howard Simmons
Review by Russell Warren Howe
The Fiction of Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka
Review by Jabari Asim
Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
Review by Oscar C. Villalon
The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks
Review by Ken Foster
Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown
Review by Floyd Skloot
Wild Life by Molly Gloss
Review by L.M. Cerruti
The Best of Jackson Payne by Jack Fuller
Review by Eric Miles Williamson
Keeneland by Alyson Hagy
Review by Dennis Harvey
For California's Gold by JoAnn Levy
Review by Barbara Tannenbaum
Two Loves by Sian James
Review by Floyd Skloot
Philadelphia Inquirer
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Review by Josephine Foo
The Married Man by Edmund White
Review by Kelly McQuain
The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks
Review by Merilyn Jackson
LA Times
The Best of Jackson Payne by Jack Fuller
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Feast of Love by Charles Baxter
Review by Thomas Curwen
The Dry Danube: A Hitler Forgery by Paul West
Review by Ron Rosenbaum
Discoveries:
The Married Man by Edmund White
The Name of the World by Denis Johnson
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Helen Verongos
The Angel on the Roof by Russell Banks
Review by Ron Franscell
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Friday June 23, 2000
New York Times
Abyssinian Chronicles by Moses Isegawa
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Wednesday June 21, 2000
New York Times
True Story by Bill Maher
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Sunday June 18, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
Review by Dwight Garner
The Year of Jubilio by Howard Bahr
Review by Robert Morgan
Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
Review by Daniel Zalewski
Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me by Karen Karbo
Review by Ann Hodgman
The Gravity of Sunlight by Rosa Shand
Review by Margot Livesey
Windchill Summer by Norris Church Mailer
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
Books in Brief:
True Story by Bill Maher
Review by Ray Sawhill
Remembrance Day by Henry Porter
Review by Jennifer Reese
Lost Geography by Charlotte Bacon
Review by Gloria Rohman
Enola Gay by Mark Levine
Review by Deborah Weisgall
Lucy Crocker 2.0 by Caroline Preston
Review by J.D. Biersdorfer
Washington Post Book World
Fay by Larry Brown
Review by George P. Pelecanos
San Francsico Chronicle
The Married Man by Edmund White
Review by David Wiegand
Stairs to the Roof by Tennessee Williams
Review by Steven Winn
Affinity by Sarah Waters
Review by Joanna Smith Rakoff
Anatomies by Anndee Hochman
Review by Marit Haahr
Valencia by Michelle Tea
Review by Kim Severson
LA Times
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
Review by Jonathan Levi
Be the One by April Smith
Review by Eugen Weber
First Fiction:
Jim The Boy by Tony Earley
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries
Fludd by Hilary Mantel
Elegy for Kosovo by Ismail Kadare
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
In The Name of Salome by Julia Alvarez
Review by Judith Evans
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Sunday June 11, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
Review by Walter Kirn
The Obituary Writer by Porter Shreve
Review by Louis Bayard
Anatomies: A Novella and Stories by Anndee Hochman
Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
Half a Heart by Rosellen Brown
Review by Laura Shapiro
Vertigo by W.G. Sebald
Review by W.S. Di Piero
The Fly-Truffler by Gustaf Sobin
Review by Jennifer Reese
Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
Review by Scott Bradfield
Dressing Up For Carnival by Carol Shields
Review by David Willis McCullough
Sam the Cat And Other Stories by Matthew Klam
Review by D.T. Max
Books in Brief:
In My Other Life by Joan Silber
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
The Boomer by Marty ASher
Review by Erik Burns
Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs
Review by Megan Harlan
The Battle by Patrick Rambaud
Review by Jeff Waggoner
World of Pies by Karen Stolz
Review by Emily Hall
Washington Post Book World
The Married Man by Edmund White
Review by Michael Dirda
Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson
Review by Linda Barrett
In the Name of Salome by julia Alvarez
Review by Joanne Omang
Fiction:
The Spirit Cabinet by Paul Quarrington
Deep in the Heart by Sharon Oard Warner
Renato's Luck by Jeff Shapiro
The Blood Latitudes by William Harrison
Review by Kit Reed
Philadelphia Inquirer
Portrait of an Artist, As An Old Man by Joseph Heller
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Hunts in Dreams by Tom Drury
Review by Justin Cronin
Sam The Cast by Matthew Klam
Review by Karen Heller
The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie
Review by Peter Rock
San Francisco Chronicle
Plowing in the Dark by Richard Powers
Review by Kevin Berger
Home Truths by David Lodge
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Becoming Madame Mao by Anchee Min
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Living to Tell by Antonya Nelson
Review by Ken Foster
Fabulous Hell by Craig Curtis
The Third Eye by David Knowles
Shopping by Gavin Kramer
Breznitz by Haim Lapid
When Kambia Elaine Flew in From Neptune by Lori Aurelia Williams
Review by John Perry
LA Times
Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
Review by Jonathan Levi
Discoveries:
The Angel on the Roof: Stories by Russell Banks
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
Carp Fishing on Valium by Graham Parker
Safekeeping by Abigail Thomas
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Friday June 9, 2000
Washington Post
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
Review by Carolyn See
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Thursday June 8, 2000
New York Times
Jim the Boy by Tony Earley
Review by Janet Maslin
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Wednesday June 7, 2000
New York Times
Stonedial by George Konrad
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Sunday June 4, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Fiona Range by Mary McGarry Morris
Review by Maggie Paley
Stern Men by Elizabeth Gilbert
Review by Sena Jeter Naslund
New Addresses: Poems by Kenneth Koch
Review by Ken Tucker
Day of the Bees by Thomas Sanchez
Review by Anita Gates
Swimming Sweet Arrow by Maureen Gibbon
Review by Maile Meloy
Chang and Eng by Darin Strauss
Review by Andrew Santella
Trans-Sister Radio by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Louis Bayard
The Fundamentals of Play by Caitlin Macy
Review by Penelope Green
Washington Post Book World
Deus Lo Volt by Evan S. Connell
Review by Thomas Madden
Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
Review by Steven Moore
O.K. by Paul west
Review by Nicholas Flokos
Grievance by K.C. Constantine
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
Fiona Range by Mary McGarry Morris
Review by Courtney Weaver
The Question of Bruno by Aleksandar Hemon
Review by Daniel Orozco
The Republic of Wine by Mo Yan
Review by Wu Ningkun
Lightning on the Sun by Robert Bingham
Review by Andrew Roe
War Boy by Keif Hillsbery
Review by David Wiegand
Dating Big Bird by Laura Zigman
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Philadelphia Inquirer
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Review by Lionel Shriver
Anatomies by Anndee Hochman
Review by Sandra Scofield
Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
Review by Jill P. Capuzzo
LA Times
First Fiction:
What We Don't Know About Children by Simona Vinci
Bee Season by Myla Goldberg
The Sooterkin by Tom Gilling
Review by Mark Rozzo
Faggots by Larry Kramer
Review by Reynolds Price
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