May 2004 |

Monday May 31, 2004
New York Times
The Master by Colm Toibin
Review by Janet Maslin

Sunday May 30, 2004
New York Times Book Review
The Dog Fighter by Marc Bojanowski
Review by Sophie Harrison
Port Mungo by Patrick McGrath
Review by Christopher Benfrey
Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Review by Stephen Metcalf
Celestial Harmonies by Peter Esterhazy
Review by Neil Bermel
The Body of Jonah Boyd by David Leavitt
Review by Claire Dederer
Books in Brief:
Antipodes by Ignacio Padilla
Review by James Polk
Black by Christopher Whitcomb
Review by James Parker
The Song of Names by Norman Lebrecht
Review by Tim Wilson
Shooting the Heart by Paul Cody
Review by Mark Kamine
Some Great Thing by Colin MCAdam
Review by Reihan Salam
Snakepit by Moses Isegawa
Review by Brock Baker
Washington Post Book World
Pushkin and the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall
Review by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington
After by Claire Tristram
Review by Jennifer Howard
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Review by Alice K. Turner
Confessions of a Bigamist by Kate Lehrer
Review by Lisa Zeidner
Lichtenberg and the Little Flower Girl by Gert Hofmann
Review by Michael Dirda
A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That by Lisa Glatt
A Private Life by Ran Chen
The Garden Angel by Mindy Friddle
The Sea House by Esther Freud
Review by Elizabeth Gold
San Francisco Chronicle
Wakefield by Andrei Codrescu
Review by Michael Scott Moore
True North by Jim Harrison
Review by Stephen J. Lyons
The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck
Review by Linda Burnett
Desire by Lindsay Ahl
Review by Dodie Bellamy
Music and Suicide by Jeff Clark
Americus: Book I by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Review by Troy Jollimore
Shifting Through Neutral by Bridgett M. Davis
Review by Amy Westervelt
The Place Will Comfort You by Naama Goldstein
Review by Amy Westervelt
The Body of Jonah Boyd by David Leavitt
Review by Kera Bolonik
Chicago Tribune
Natasha and Other Stories by David Bezmozgis
Review by John Biguenet
True North by Jim Harrison
Review by Art Winslow

Thursday May 27, 2004
New York Times
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
Review by Janet Maslin

Tuesday May 25, 2004
New York Times
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Review by Michiko Kakutani

Sunday May 23, 2004
New York Times Book Review
Transmission by Hari Kunzru
Review by Walter Kirn
Making Love by Lucretia Stewart
In His Arms by Camille Laurens
After by Claire Tristram
Faithful by Davitt Sigerson
Review by Emily Nussbaum
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free by James Kelman
Review by Dwight Garner
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Review by Jonathan Miles
True North by Jim Harrison
Review by Anthony Quinn
Pushkin asnd the Queen of Spades by Alice Randall
Review by Lizzie Skurnick
Washington Post Book World
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Kretser
Review by Chris Lehmann
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Review by Christopher Tilghman
Q by Luther Blissett
Review by David Liss
San Francisco Chronicle
After by Claire Tristram
Review by Sylvia Brownrigg
Resistance by Barry Lopez
Antipodes by Ignacio Padilla
Review by Alan Cheuse
Now Is the Time To Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
Review by Nia-Malika Henderson
The Half Brother by Lars Saabye Christensen
Review by Tomothy Peters
Q by Luther Blissett
Review by Reagan Upshaw
In Summer by Jeremy Jackson
Review by David Wiegand
Plain Heathen Mischief by Martin Clark
Review by Robin Somers
Chicago Tribune
Heaven Lake by John Dalton
Review by Robin Henley
Resistance by Barry Lopez
Review by Donna Seaman
Boston Globe
Scared Time by Ursula Hegi
Review by Caledonia Kearns
Heaven Lake by John Dalton
Review by Nathaniel Bellows
Newsday
Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow
Review by Matt Weiland

Sunday May 16, 2004
New York Times Book Review
The Blue Bowl by George Minot
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
New and Selected Poems, 1974-2004 by Carl Dennis
Review by David Orr
The Cello Player by Michael Kruger
Review by Noah Isenberg
Every Time I Talk to Liston by Brian DeVido
My Father's Fighter by Ronald K. Fried
Review by Carlo Rotella
Books in Brief:
Ghost Girl by Amy Gerstler
Review by Emily Nussbaum
Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry
Review by Rodney Welch
Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua
Review by Charles Wilson
The Cradle Place by Thomas Lux
Review by Eric McHenry
Heaven Lies About Us: Stories by Eugene McCabe
Review by Etelka Lehoczky
Buddha Da by Anne Donovan
Review by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Washington Post Book World
You Remind Me of Me by Dan Chaon
Review by Tom Perrotta
San Francisco Chronicle
Conspirators by Michael Andre Bernstein
Review by David Hellman
Trapeze by Deborah Digges
The Woman I Kept to Myself by Julia Alvarez
Review by Cynthia L. Haven
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Krester
Review by Brenn Jones
The Moon in Its Flight: Stories by Gilbert Sorrentino
Review by Andrew Ervin

Tuesday May 11, 2004
New York Times
Sweetland Stories by E.L. Doctorow
Review by Michiko Kakutani

Sunday May 9, 2004
New York Times Book Review
Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt
Review by Claire Messud
The Hamilton Case by Michelle de Krester
Review by William Boyd
Adventures of the Artificial Woman by Thomas Berger
Review by Donald E. Westlake
American Desert by Percival Everett
A History of the African- American People [Proposed] by Strom Thurmond as told to Percival Everett and James Kincaid
Review by Sven Birkerts
The Sea House by Esther Freud
Review by Michale Gorra
Washington Post Book World
Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Flying Crows by Jim Lehrer
Review by Les Roberts
Folly and Glory by Larry McMurtry
Review by George Scialabba
San Francisco Chronicle
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Review by Brad Vice
The Full Matilda by David Haynes
Review by Sara Peyton
The Trouble Boy by Tom Dolby
Review by David Wiegand
World Famous Love Acts: Stories by Brian Leung
Review by Marianne Rogoff
Dancing Arabs by Sayed Kashua
Review by Robert Walch
Chicago Tribune
The Lucky Ones by Rachel Cusk
An Empty Room by Talitha Stevenson
Review by John Freeman
The Devil You Know by Wayne Johnson
Review by Laura Demanski

Thursday May 6, 2004
New York Times
The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason
Review by Janet Maslin
Newsday
Eventide by Kent Haruf
Review by Dan Cryer

May 5, 2004
Newsday
Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne
Review by Gene Seymour

Monday May 3, 2004
New York Times
The Narrows by Michael Connelly
Review by Janet Maslin

Sunday, May 2, 2004
New York Times Book Review
Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne
Review by Ward Just
The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler
Review by Patricia T. O'Conner
Emma Brown by Claire Boylan
Review by Miranda Seymour
Waterborne by Bruce Murkoff
Review by Sam Lipsyte
New and Selected Poems by Michael Ryan
Review by David Kirby
Books in Brief:
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
Review by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
Why I Wake Early: New Poems by Mary Oliver
Review by Stephen Burt
Nowhere in Africa by Stefanie Zweig
Review by Rand Richards Cooper
The News From Paraguay by Lily Tuck
Review by John Hartl
The Full Cupboard of Lide by Alexander McCall Smith
Review by Alida Becker
Hash by Torgny Lindgren
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Washington Post Book World
Good Grief by Lolly Winston
Review by Ann Hood
American Desert by Percival Everett
Review by James Hynes
The Maze by Panos Karnezis
Review by Nicholas Gage
Triomf by Marlene van Niekirk
Review by Matt Steinglass
The Matter of Desire by Edmundo Paz Soldan
Review by James Polk
San Francisco Chronicle
Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt
Review by Laurel Maury
The Pearl Diver by Jeff Talarigo
Review by Malena Watrous
Do The Blind Dream by Barry Gifford
Review by Marianne Rogoff
The Honeymoon by Justin Haythe
Review by Gabe Weisert
Chicago Tribune
Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne
Review by Alan Cheuse
Now Is the Time to Open Your Heart by Alice Walker
Review by Emily Bernard
Mourning Ruby by Helen Dunmore
Review by Dan Cryer

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