March 2000 |

Sunday March 26, 2000
New York Times Book Review
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Review by Robert Kelly
The Fig Eater by Jody Shields
Review by Judith Shulevitz
The Banyan Tree by Christopher Nolan
Review by Meghan O'Rourke
Fiction and Lies by Irina Ratushinskaya
Review by Richard Lourie
Pure Poetry by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Review by Sarah Ferguson
Books in Brief:
North Street:Poems by Jonathan Galassi
Review by David Kirby
A Slow Burning by Stanley Pottinger
Review by Megan Harlan
Outfoxed by Rita Mae Brown
Review by Jennifer Reese
Boy Island by Camden Joy
Review by Mark Athitakis
The Lion in the Room Next Door by Merilyn Simonds
Review by Andy Solomon
Second Hand by Michael Zadoorian
Review by Sally Eckoff
Washington Post
Blue Angel by Francine Prose
Review by Michael Dirda
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
Review by Jonathan Yardley
A Trip to the Stars by Nicholas Christopher
Review by Susan Dooley
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Review by Larry Swindell
Begin Again Collected Poems by Grace Paley
Review by Stephen DiLauro
Tea by Stacy D'Erasmo
Review by Maggie Galehouse

Sunday March 19, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Hook by Donald Westlake
Review by Valerie Sayers
Gambler's Rose by G.W. Hawkes
Review by Porter Shreve
Equal Love: Stories by Peter Ho Davies
Review by Jacqueline Carey
The Ascetic of Desire: A Novel of the Kamasutra by Sudhir Kakar
Review by Edward Hower
Unarmed and Dangerous: New and Selected Poems by Wyatt Prunty
Review by Melanie Rehak
Everything in the Country Must: A Novella and Two Stories by Colum
McCann
Review by Charles Taylor
Animal Triste by Monika Maron
Review by Noah Isenberg
Blackden by Duncan McLean
Review by Henry Shukman
Books in Brief:
Nickel and Dime by Gary Soto
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
Run by Douglas E. Winter
Review by Ray Sawhill
Harbor Light by Theodore Weesner
Review by Scott Sutherland
Acts of Mutiny by Derek Beaven
Review by Mark Schoone
Riddle of Stars by Pierce Butler
Review by Robert Allen Papinchak
Washington Post Book World
S: A Novel of the Balkans by Slavenka Drakulic
Review by Joanne Omang
On Parole by Akira Yoshimura
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Molly by Nancy J. Jones
Review by Roland Merullo
Fiction:
Rails Under My Back by Jeffrey Renard Allen
The Realm of Secondhand Souls by Sandra Shea
The Hotel Alleluia by Lucinda Roy
Review by Robert Allen Papinchak
San Francisco Chronicle
Scandalmonger by William Safire
Review by Andrea Behr
Memories of a Pure Spring by Duong Thu Huong
Review by Andrew X. Pham
Period by Dennis Cooper
Review by Dodie Bellamy
Pilgim by Tomothy Findley
Review by Sheila Farr
How To Murder a Man by Carlo Gebler
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Philadelphia Inquirer
City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Review by Michael Harrington
Fay by Larry Brown
Review by Diane Scharper
LA Times
Mondo Desperado; A Serial Novel by Patrick McCabe
Review by Jonathan Levi
Discoveries:
More Than You Know by Beth Gutcheon
True North by Kimberly Kafka
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
Review by Peter Wolfe
Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding
Review by Gail Pennington

Sunday March 12, 2000
New York Times Book Review
In America by Susan Sontag
Review by Sarah Kerr
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
Review by Jhumpa Lahiri
Learning Human: Selected Poems by Les Murray
Review by Albert Mobilio
Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez
Review by Maud Casey
The Virtuoso by Margriet de Moor
Review by Julie Gray
Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon
Review by Simon Reynolds
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Review by Robert Houston
Another Song About the King by Kathryn Stern
Review by Laura Jamison
The Lion's Game by Nelson DeMille
Review by Neil Gordon
The Doctor by Patricia Duncker
Review by John Vernon
Books in Brief:
Back Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Review by Erik Burns
The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson
Review by Anthony Bourdain
With Your Crooked Heart by Helen Dunmore
Review by Dana Kennedy
The Other Rebecca by Maureen Freely
Review by Andrea Higbie
The Fifth Season by Robert C.S. Downs
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Washington Post Book World
The Rose Garden by Maeve Brennan
Review by Nina King
The Natural Order of Things by Antonio Lobo Antunes
Review by Michael Mewshaw
Tula Station by David Toscana
Review by Patricia J. Duncan
The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction: Editied by Colm Toibin
Review by Ambrose Clancy
San Francisco Chronicle
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Review by Michael Lind
Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez
Review by Ken Foster
Every Day is Mother's Day
Vacant Possession by Hilary Mantel
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Slab Rat by Ted Heller
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies
Review by Brian Schwartz
Losing Julia by Jonathan Hull
Review by Thomas Orton
Shame the Devil by George P. Pelecanos
Review by Paul Skenazy
Philadelphia Inquirer
Beowulf: Translated by Seamus Heaney
Review by David R. Slavitt
In America by Susan Sontag
Review by Joan Mellen
Bridget Jones by Helen Fielding
Review by Karen Heller
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
Review by Peter Rock
LA Times
The Barbarians are Coming by David Wong
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Sound of One Hand Clapping by Richard Flanagan
Review by Peter Green
First Fiction
Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon
Reap by Erica Rickstad
The Chivalry of Crime by Desmond Barry
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries
Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon
The Wishing Box by Dashka Slater
Skateaway by Michael Grant Jaffe
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Make Believe by Joanna Scott
Review by Julie Failla Earhart
Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olin Butler
Review by Repps Hudson
The Gates of the Alamo by Stpehen Harrigan
Review by Dorman T. Shindler

Friday March 10, 2000
New York Times
Mr. Spaceman by Robert Olen Butler
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Ladies' Night at Finbar's Hotel; Devised and Edited by Dermot Bolger
Review by Carolyn See

Wednesday, March 8, 2000
New York Times
The Book of Revelation by Rupert Thomson
Review by Richard Bernstein

Tuesday March 7, 2000
New York Times
Make Believe by Joanna Scott
Review by Michiko Kakutani

Sunday March 5, 2000
New York Times Book Review
City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Review by A.O. Scott
Water, Carry Me by Thomas Moran
Review by Stephen Amidon
Two Moons by Thomas Mallon
Review by Frederick Busch
In the Name of the Wolf by John F. Deane
Review by David Willis McCullough
The Suburbs of Heaven by Merle Drown
Review by Jean Thompson
Some Things That Stay by Sarah Willis
Review by Joanna Scott
Books in Brief:
The Mask Carver's Son by Alyson Richman
Review by Sara Ivry
American by Blood by Andrew Huebner
Review by Steven Varni
Meely Labauve by Ken Wells
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Battle Creek by Scott Lasser
Review by Emily Barton
The Law of Return: Short Stories by Maxine Rodburg
Review by Fran Handman
Nothing is Terrible by Matthew Sharpe
Review by Christine Muhlke
Washington Post
In America by Susan Sontag
Review by Richard Lourie
The Romantics by Pankaj Mishra
Review by Marie Arana
City of God by E.L. Doctorow
Review by Madison Smartt Bell
The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan
Review by Ron Franscell
Lieutenant-Colonel De Maumort by Roger Martin du Gard
Review by Dennis Drabelle
The Plato Papers by Peter Ackroyd
Review by Michael Dirda
Philadelphia Inquirer
Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
The Missing World by Margot Livesey
Review by Jill P. Capuzzo
Everything You Know by Zoe Heller
Review by Steven Rea
San Francisco Chronicle
The Barbarians Are Coming by David Wong
Review by David Wiegand
Beowulf by Seamus Heaney
Review by Cynthia L. Haven
The Deposition of Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Knick Knack Paddy Whack by Ardal O'Hanlon
Review by Jeffrey Bartlett
LA Times
The Natural Order of Things by Antonio Lobo Antunes
Review by Richard Zenith
Discoveries:
Everything in This Country Must by Colum McCann
Period by Dennis Cooper
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post Dispatch
On Parole by Akira Yoshimura
Review by Susan Rhodenbaugh
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