March 2002 |
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Sunday March 31, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Wavemaker II by Mary-Beth Hughes
Review by Beverly Lowry
The House of Blue Mangoes by Dabid Davidar
Review by Akash Kapur
The Darts of Cupid: and Other Stories by Edith Templeton
Review by Daphne Merkin
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Gigantic: Stories by Marc Nesbitt
Review by Sam Sifton
The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini
Review by Stacy Schiff
Books in Brief:
Spadework by Timothy Findley
Review by William Ferguson
The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Amy Benfer
The Way to Somewhere by Angie Day
Review by Jonathan Kiefer
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Review by Adam Maszmanian
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper by Harriet Scott Chessman
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
The Watercourse by Cynthia Zarin
Review by Ken Tucker
Washington Post Book World
Sharpe's Prey by Bernard Cornwell
Review by Ken Ringle
Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands by Susan Carol McCarthy
Review by Holly Ross
The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
Darlington's Fall by Brad Leithauser
Review by Michael Lind
The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth
Review by Thomas McGonigle
The Haunting of L by Howard Norman
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe
Review by David Kipen
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson
Review by Michael Berry
Song of the Water Saints by Nelly Rosario
Review by Jesse Berrett
Philadelphia Inquirer
Wetware by Craig Nova
Review by Phaedra Trethan
Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Review by Larry Swindell
Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown
Review by Diane Scharper
Chicago Tribune
Oxygen by Andrew Miller
Review by Michael Upchurch
Darlington's Fall by Brad Leithauser
Review by Jeff Dolven
LA Times
The English Assassin by Daniel Silva
Review by Michael Harris
The Reporter by Kelly Lange
Review by Erica Sanders
First Fiction:
A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
No Place, Louisiana by Martin Pousson
The Cyclist by Viken Berberian
Review by Mark Rozzo
Darlington's Fall by Brad Leithauser
Review by Jonathan Levi
Rhapsody in Plain Yellow by Marilyn Chin
Sleeping With the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
Subterranean by Jill Biaslosky
Review by Carol Muske-Dukes
Discoveries:
Achilles by Elizabeth Cook
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Friday March 29, 2002
New York Times
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Thursday March 28, 2002
New York Times
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzu
Review by Janet Maslin
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Tuesday March 26, 2002
New York Times
Gould's Book of Fish by Richard Flanagan
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday March 24, 2002
New York Times Book Review
The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe
Review by Richard Eder
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
Review by Janet Burroway
Insect Dreams by Marc Estin
Review by Ken Tucker
Number9Dream by David Mitchell
Review by Damiel Zalewski
Washington Post Book World
Billie's Kiss by Elizabeth Knox
Review by Liza Featherstone
By the Lake by John McGahern
Review by Frances Stead Sellers
The Translator by John Crowley
Review by Howard Norman
The Caves of Perigord by Martin Walker
Review by Michael Kernan
Fiction:
Beyond Illusion by Duong Thu Huong
Gone by Martin Roper
Turtle Lung Woman's Granddaughter by Delphine Red Shirt
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty
Enemy Woman by Paulette Jiles
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
San Francisco Chronicle
By the Lake by John McGahern
Review by Anthony Giardina
The Varieties of Romantic Experience by Robert Cohen
Review by David Kipen
A Child's Book of True Crime by Chloe Hooper
Review by Megan Harlan
The Translator by John Crowley
Review by Miriam Wolf
Gigantic by Marc Nesbitt
Review by David Wiegand
Enemy Women by Paulette Jiles
Review by Mark Luce
The Red Dancer by Richard Skinner
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
Chicago Tribune
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty
Review by Conan Putnam
The Stars Can Wait by Jay Basu
Review by Miranda Schwartz
Kill Your Darlings by Terence Blacker
Review by Laurie Muchnick
Philadelphia Inquirer
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Review by Lionel Shriver
LA Times
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Review by Charlotte Innes
Night Games; and Otehr Stories and Novellas by Arthur Schnitzler
Review by Peter Gay
Ode to Lata by Ghalib Shiraz Dhalla
Review by D.J. Carlile
Loving Monsters by James Hamilton-Paterson
Review by Peter Green
St. Louis Post Dispatch
House of Women by Lynn Freed
Review by Collen Kelly Warren
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Monday March 18, 2002
New York Times
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Review by Janet Maslin
Philadelphia Inquirer
Daughter of Ireland by Julienne Osborne-McKnight
Review by Sheri Melnick
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Sunday March 17, 2002
New York Times Book Review
2182 Khz by David Masiel
Review by Dwight Garner
At Swim, Two Boys by Jamie O'Neill
Review by Michael Pye
By the Lake by John McGahern
Review by John Sutherland
Source: Poems by Mark Doty
Review by Ruth Padel
The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Claire Marvel by John Brunham Schwartz
Review by Valerie Sayers
Books in Brief:
When the Elephants Dance by Tess Uriza Holthe
Review by Philip Gambone
Without a Name and Under the Tongue by Yvonne Vera
Review by Hillary Frey
Henderson's Spear by Ronald Wright
Review by Diane Scharper
Beyond Illusions by Duong Thu Huong
Review by Sudip Bose
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
Review by Julie Gray
X-Force: New Beginnings by Peter Milligan
Review by Ken Tucker
Washington Post Book World
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Review by Jonathan Yardley
The Varieties of Romantic Experience by Robert Cohen
Review by John Derbyshire
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Review by Jane Ciabattari
A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
Review by Steven Moore
The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini
Review by Michael Mewshaw
The Darts of Cupid and Other Stories by Edith Templeton
Review by Bart Schneider
Leaving by Richard Dry
Review by Gary Rivlin
San Francisco Chronicle
I'll Let You Go by Bruce Wagner
Review by David Kipen
The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
Review by Jason Roberts
The Buffalo Soldier by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
Anna in the Afterlife by Merrill Joan
Review by Martin Rubin
Chicago Tribune
Meant to Be by Rita Coburn Whack
Review by Jennifer Hunt
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Seige by Helen Dunmore
Review by Lionel Shriver
The Passion of Artemisia by Susan Vreeland
Review by Judith Stein
LA Times
The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth
Review by Amy Wilentz
The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
Review by Ben Ehrenreich
The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
Review by Jamie James
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Friday March 15, 2002
New York Times
Number9Dream by David Mitchell
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Thursday March 14, 2002
New York Times
All I Could Never Get by Scott Lasser
The Fall of Rome by Martha Southgate
Review by Janet Maslin
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Wednesday March 13, 2002
New York Times
The Translator by John Crowley
Review by Richard Eder
Philadelphia Inquirer
Hotel World by Ali Smith
Review by Paula Freidman
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Sunday March 10, 2002
New York Times
The Varieties of Romantic Experience by Robert Cohen
Review by Ken Kalfus
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Review by Tom Shone
Discretion by Elizabeth Nunez
Review by Sarah Towers
The Doctor's House by Ann Beattie
Review by Rand Richards Cooper
Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin
Review by Anthony Quinn
Violence, Nudity, Adult Content by Vince Passaro
Review by James Marcus
Washington Post Book World
The Wise Women of Havana by Jose Raul Bernardo
Review by Joanne Omang
The House of Blue Mangoes by David Davidar
Review by Alice K. Turner
A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity by Whitney Otto
Review by Janice P. Nimura
The Return of the Caravels by Antonio Lobo Antunes
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Poetry:
Rise by A. Van Jordan
25 New Nigerain Poets
Bum Rush This Page: a Def Poetry Jam
Review by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
San Francisco Chronicle
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Review by David Wiegand
The Return of the Caravels by Antonio Lobo Antunes
Review by Alan Kaufman
Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos
Review by Mark Luce
New Collected Poems by George Oppen
Review by Andrew Ervin
Where You Find It by Janice Galloway
Review by Ayelet Waldman
The Last Stand of Mr. America by Jason Flores-Williams
Review by Dodie Bellamy
Chicago Tribune
By the Lake by John McGahern
The Fall of Light by Niall Williams
Review by Floyd Skloot
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Review by Alan Cheuse
A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
Review by David L. Ulin
The Siege by Helen Dunmore
Review by Dan Cryer
Roscoe by William Kennedy
Review by Jason Berry
Philadelphia Inquirer
Shadows and Elephants by Edward Hower
Review by Susan Balee
A Place Called Trinity by Delia Parr
Review by Martha Woodall
LA Times
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Review by Daphne Merkin
First Fiction:
10th Grade by Joseph Weisberg
Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl by Kate McCafferty
It's How You Play the Game by Jimmy Gleacher
Review by Mark Rozzo
Henderson's Spear by Ronald Wright
Review by D.J. Carlile
St. Louis Post Dispatch
The Nanny Diaries by Nicola Kraus and Emma McLaughlin
Review by Dawn Fallik
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Friday March 8, 2002
New York Times
Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Thursday March 7, 2002
New York Times
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Wednesday March 6, 2002
New York Times
A Collection of Beauties at the Height of Their Popularity by Whitney Otto
Review by Janet Maslin
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Monday March 4, 2002
New York Times
The Nanny Diaries by Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday March 3, 2002
New York Times
The Shell Collector: Stories by Anthony Doerr
Review by Nancy Willard
A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford
Review by Colson Whitehead
Summer in Baden-Baden by Leonid Tsypkin
Review by Jonathan Rosen
Quite Ugly One Morning by Christopher Brookmyre
Review by Rob Walker
Books in Brief:
Whitegirl by Kate Manning
Review by Martha Southgate
Shackling Water by Adam Mansbach
Review by Adam Baer
Shadows and Elephants by Edward Hower
Review by Erik Burns
The Dark Fields by Alan Glynn
Review by King Kaufman
Zeeland by Hans Koning
Review by William Ferguson
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Review by Charles Wilson
Washington Post Book World
The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing
Review by Beth Kephart
Homo Zapiens by Victor Pelevin
Review by Alan Cheuse
The Rotter's Club by Jonathan Coe
Review by Chris Lehmann
Ordinary Life by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Elizabeth Roca
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Review by James Sallis
The War at Home by Nora Eisenberg
Review by Robin Dougherty
San Francisco Chronicle
The Birthday of the World by Ursula LeGuin
Review by Alan Cheuse
The Apprentice Lover by Jay Parini
Review by John Freeman
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe
Review by Heller McAlpin
What We Won't Do: Stories by Brock Clarke
Review by Jeff Galipeaux
The Wise Women of Havana by Jose Raul Bernardo
Review by Jim Piechota
Unknown Destination by Maya Rasker
Review by Alan Kaufman
Chicago Tribune
Hell to Pay by George P. Pelecanos
Review by Dick Adler
Ghost of Bridgetown by Debra Spark
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
The Sweetest Dream by Doris Lessing
Review by Shelby Hearon
Philadelphia Inquirer
Goodnight, Sweet Prince by David Dickinson
Review by Edna Stumpf
The Silent Lady by Catherine Cookson
Review by Scotia W. MacRae
Tishomongo Blues by Elmore Leonard
Review by Micahel Harrington
Miracle at St. Anna by James McBride
Review by Tom Moon
Absolute Zero by Chuck Logan
Review by Sandy Bauers
LA Times
The Golems of Gotham by Thane Rosenbaum
Review by David Klinghoffer
Billancourt Tales by Nina Berberova
Review by Michael Frank
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Review by Brigitte Frase
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Friday March 1, 2002
New York Times
Leaving Katya by Paul Greenberg
Review by Richard Eder
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