May 2002 |
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Friday May 31, 2002
New York Times
A Simple Habana Melody by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Thursday May 30, 2002
New York Times
Under Radar by Michael Tolkin
Review by Janet Maslin
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Tuesday May 28, 2002
New York Times
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday May 27, 2002
New York Times
The Phantom Limbs of the Rollow Sisters by Timothy Schaffert
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday May 26, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Accidents in the Home by Tessa Hadley
Review by Maria Russo
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry
Review by Neil Gordon
Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan
Review by Ruth Franklin
The Serious Game by Hjalmar Soderberg
Review by Bruce Bawer
Books in Brief:
Inez by Carlos Fuentes
Review by Charles Wilson
Waterborne by Linda Gregerson
Review by Megan Harlan
God's Fool by Mark Slouka
Review by Emily Hall
The True sources of the Nile by Sarah Stone
Review by William Ferguson
What We Won't Do by: Stories by Brock Clarke
Review by Maggie Galehouse
Sparrow Nights by David Gilmour
Review by Emily Gordon
Washington Post Book World
I by Stephen Dixon
Review by Steven Moore
Oxygen by Andrew Miller
Review by Susie Linfield
The Shelters of Stone by Jean M. Auel
Review by Katherine A. Powers
Crow Lake by Mary Lawson
A Cup of Light by Nicole Mones
Fox Girl by Nora Okja Keller
The Making of June by Annie Ward
Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson
Review by Juliet Wittman
San Francisco Chronicle
In the Clear by Steve Lopez
Review by David Kipen
The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane
Review by James Brown
Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry
Review by Kevin Smokler
The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Ken Foster
Godspeed by Lynn Breedlove
Review by Dodie Bellamy
Dreaming Water by Gail Tsukiyama
Review by Sara Ivry
Stealing the Fire by Jane Ciabattari
Review by Judy Doenges
Simon Silber: Works for Solo Piano by Christopher Miller
Review by Jonathan Kiefer
I Don't Know But I've Been Told by Raul Correa
Review by Alex Tarquinio
The Curve of the World by Marcus Stevens
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Chicago Tribune
Three Junes by Julias Glass
Review by Laura Ciolkowski
The Weather in Berlin by Ward Just
Review by Michale Upchurch
Inez by Carlos Fuentes
Review by Alan Cheuse
Philadelphia Inquierer
In the Clear by Steve Lopez
Review by Frank Wilson
The Haunting of L by Howard Norman
Review by Lionel Shriver
Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
Review by Elisa Ludwig
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Sunday May 19, 2002
New York Times Book Review
The Strength of the Sun by Catherine Chidgey
Review by Gary Krist
Never: Poems by Jorie Graham
Review by Sven Birkerts
The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane
Review by Paul Gray
Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson
Review by Frederick Busch
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
Review by Lavinia Greenlaw
Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems by Grace Schulman
Review by Wyatt Prunty
Washington Post Book World
Lost Nation by Jeffrey Lent
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
Women About Town by Laura Jacobs
Review by Susan Coll
The Women Who Gave Birth To Rabbits by Emma Donoghue
Review by Carrie Brown
The Leto Bundle by Marina Warner
Review by Elizabeth Hand
The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
San Francisco Chronicle
Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark
Review by Ken Foster
Mr. Potter by Jamiaca Kincaid
Review by Andrew Roe
Her by Laura Zigman
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Haitian Trilogy by Derek Walcott
Review by Cynthia Haven
Ernie's Ark by Monica Wood
Review by Kevin Smokler
Married: a Fine Predicament by Anne Roiphe
Review by Regan McMahon
The City of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
Review by John Freeman
Chicago Tribune
Lucky in the Corner by Carol Anshaw
Review by Michael Upchurch
Female Trouble by Antonya Nelson
Review by Lynna Williams
Disappearing Ingenue by Melissa Pritchard
Review by Sandra Scofield
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
Review by Molly McQuade
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Review by Steven G. Kellman
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Company by Robert Littell
Review by Larry Swindell
American Sonnets by Gerald Stern
Review by Tom Devaney
LA Times
Sons of Heaven by Terrence Cheng
Review by ben Schrank
The Season of Your Final Destination by Peter Cameron
Review by Marina Budhos
The Short Sweet Dream of Eduardo Gutierrez by Jimmy Breslin
Review by Michale Harris
Discoveries:
Across Open Ground by Heather Parkinson
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Sunday May 12, 2002
New York Times
Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
Review by Sophie Harrison
Unless by Carol Shields
Review by Catherine Lockerbie
The Dive From Clausen's Pier by Ann Packer
Review by Rob Nixon
Interesting Women: Stories by Andrea Lee
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke
Review by Erika Krouse
Red Poppies by Alai
Review by Barbara Crossette
The Translator by John Crowley
Review by Jessica Olin
Hester Among the Ruins by Binnie Kirshenbaum
Review by Katharine Weber
Burning Marguerite by Elizabeth Inness-Brown
Review by Ann Harleman
The Impressionist by Hari Kunzru
Review by Susannah Meadows
The Bondwoman's Narrative by Hannah Crafts
Review by Mia Bay
Books in Brief:
The Company by Robert Littell
Review by James J. Uebbing
Funnymen by Ted Heller
Review by Michelle Goldberg
The Wooden Nickel by William Carpenter
Review by Sally Eckhoff
The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits: Stories by Emma Donoghue
Review by Meredith Blum
A Tortoise for the Queen of Tonga by Julia Whitty
Review by Suzan Sherman
The Melancholy of Anatomy by Shelley Jackson
Review by Megan Harlan
Washington Post Book World
Her by Laura Zigman
Review by Lisa Zeidner
San Francsico Chronicle
Sons of Heaven by Terrence Cheng
Review by John Freeman
Some of Her Friends That Year by Maxine Chernoff
Review by Sarah Coleman
Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan
Review by Andrew Roe
Inez by Carlos Fuentes
Review by Dan Cryer
America Falls: The Collected Short Stories by Barry Gifford
Review by Jeff Galipeaux
Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino
Review by Marion Abbott
God-Shaped Hole by Tiffanie DeBartolo
Review by Jeanne Cooper
The Sound of Trees by Robert Payne Gatewood
Review by Claire Splan
Hunting the Last Wild Man by Angela Vallvey
Review by Marisa Silver
At the Jim Bridger by Ron Carlson
Review by Alan Cheuse
Chicago Tribune
Blues Lesson by Robert Hellenga
Review by Jason Berry
The Life Before Her Eyes by Laura Kasischke
Review by Kera Bolonik
Unless by Carol Shields
Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel
The Wooden Nickel by William Carpenter
Review by Porter Shreve
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Fall of Light by Niall Williams
Review by Susan Balee
Rouse Up O Young Men of the New Age by Kenzaburo Oe
Review by Andrew Ervin
City of Bones by Michael Connelly
Review by Sheri Melnick
The Freaks Are Winning by Jeff Somers
Lifers by Jeff Somers
Review by Tirdad Derakhshani
LA Times
The Strength of the Sun by Catherine Chidgey
Review by D.J. Carlile
First Fiction:
Last Year's Jesus by Ellen Slezak
Think of England by Alice Elliott Dark
Girl's Poker Night by Jill A. Davis
Review by Mark Rozzo
Unless by Carol Shields
Review by Jane Ciabattari
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Sunday May 5, 2002
New York Times Book Review
Oxygen by Andrew Miller
Review by Margot Livesey
The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Maria Russo
The Collected Stories of Joseph Roth
Review by Richard Lourie
Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski
Review by Philip Boehm
My Happy Life by Lydia Millet
Review by Jennifer Reese
Lee and Elaine by Ann Rower
Review by Catherine Texier
The Fall of Light by Niall Williams
Review by Diana Postlethwaite
Washington Post Book World
The Cadence of Grass by Thomas McGuane
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Unless by Carol Shields
Review by Gail Godwin
Mr. Potter by Jamaica Kincaid
Review by Robert Antoni
Perfect Match by Jodi Picoult
Review by Ann Hood
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
Review by Todd Pruzan
The Curve of the World by Marcus Stevens
Review by Matt Steinglass
San Francisco Chronicle
Walk Through Darkness by David Anthony Durham
Review by Adam Dunn
Visible Ink by George Starbuck
Review by Eric McHenry
The Republic of East L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
Review by John Freeman
The Season of Lillian Dawes by Katherine Mosby
Review by Danielle Svetcov
Philadelphia Inquirer
Everything's Eventual by Stephen King
Review by Martha Woodall
Bones of the Earth by Michael Swanwick
Review by Gregory Feeley
Chicago Tribune
In the Forest by Edna O'Brien
Review by Valerie Miner
The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Alan Cheuse
LA Times
The Republic of East L.A. by Luis J. Rodriguez
Review by Jonathan Kirsch
The Seal Wife by Kathryn Harrison
Review by Heller McAlpin
The Doctor's Wife by Ann Beattie
Review by Scott Morris
Warning of War by James Brady
Review by Michael Harris
Discoveries:
Her by Laura Zigman
The Horned Man by James Lasdun
American Falls by Barry Gifford
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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