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October 2001 |
Sunday October 28, 2001
New York Times Book Review
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Review by Richard Eder
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Review by Michael Gorra
The Same Sea by Amos Oz
Review by William M. Hoffman
Dugan Under Ground by Tom De Haven
Review by David Kamp
The Subject Steve by Sam Lipsyte
Review by Bruno Maddox
He Sleeps by Reginald McKnight
Review by Brigitte Frase
Lucky Us by Joan Silber
Review by Dana Kennedy
The Bus Driver Who Wanted To Be Good by Etgar Keret
Review by Benjamin Anastas
Washington Post Book World
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Fligths of Love by Bernhard Schlink
Review by Rick Whitaker
Riot by Shashi Tharoor
Review by Lorraine Adams
San Francisco Chronicle
New and Collected Poems 1931-2001 by Czeslaw Milosz
Review by Cynthia L. Haven
In the Shape of a Boar by Lawrence Norfold
Review by David Kipen
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Review by David Wiegand
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Review by Miriam Wolf
Ordinary White Boy by Brock Clarke
Review by Kevin Smokler
Creatures of Habit by Jill McCorkle
Review by Miriam Wolf
The Distant Land of My Father by Bo Caldwell
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Chicago Tribune
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel Allende
Review by Margaret L. Knox
The Drink and Dream Teahouse by Justin Hill
Review by Janice P. Nimura
War Memorials by Clint McCown
Review by Don DeGrazia
The Ash Garden by Dennis Bock
Review by James Polk
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
Review by Dan DeLuca
The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout
Review by Tirdad Derakhshani
LA Times
Discoveries:
The World Below by Sue Miller
Silence in October by Jens Christian Grondahl
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Erasure by Percival Everett
Review by Paula L. Woods
Rooms Are Never Finished by Agha Shahid Ali
Cool, Calm & Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer
Review by Carol Muske-Dukes
Sunday October 21, 2001
New York Times Book Review
The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
Review by Adam Phillips
Dugan Under Ground by Tom De Haven
Review by David Kamp
The Stories of Paul Bowles
Review by John Sutherland
Night Picnic: Poems by Charles Simic
Review by Elizabeth Macklin
Killing the Shadows by Val McDermid
Review by Charles Taylor
The Appointment by Herta Muller
Review by Peter Filkins
Haussmann, or the Distinction by Paul LaFarge
Review by Edmund White
Great American Plain by Gary Sernovitz
Review by Bliss Broyard
Books in Brief:
Azarel by Karoly Pap
Review by Gabriel Sanders
Sap Rising by Christine Lincoln
Review by Robert Rorke
Doctor Jazz by Hayden Carruth
Review by Ken Tucker
Shooting Dr. Jack by Norman Green
Review by Dana Kennedy
The Family by Mario Puzo
Review by Charles Salzberg
Bitten by Elena Michaels
Review by Jennifer Reese
Washington Post Book World
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi
Review by Todd Pruzan
Mona and Other Tales by Reinaldo Arenas
Review by Nina King
Aztec Blood by Gary Jennings
Review by Carolyn Banks
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Review by Bart Schneider
Antebellum Dream Book by Elizabeth Alexander
Review by Jace Clayton
The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Review by Jennie Yabroff
On the Night Plain by J. Robert Lennon
Review by Tamara Straus
Peace Like a River by Leif Enger
Review by Andrew Roe
Hook Man Speaks by Matt Clark
Review by John Freeman
The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout
Review by Andrew Roe
Hurricane Season by Karen Bjorneby
Review by Sarah Coleman
Chicago Tribune
Lowell Limpett by Ward Just
Review by Alan Cheuse
Eva Moves the Furniture by Margot Livesey
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
Still She Haunts Me by Katie Roiphe
Review by Zarena Aslami
Lucky Us by Joan Silber
Review by Laura Demanski
Even Dogs Go Home to Die by Linda St. John
Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks by Greg Bottoms
Review by John Freeman
Philadelphia Inquirer
The World Below by Sue Miller
Review by Susan Balee
Senseless by Stona Fitch
Review by Carlin Romano
LA Times
First Fiction:
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Great American Plain by Gary Sernovitz
Leaving Disneyland by Alexander Parsons
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
The Sheep Queen by Thomas Savage
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post Dispatch
The Spirit Returns by Richard Burgin
Review by Dale Singer
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Review by John Freeman
Tuesday October 16, 2001
New York Times
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Sunday October 14, 2001
New York Times Book Review
The Cheese Monkeys by Chip Kidd
Review by Thomas Hine
The Good German by Joseph Kanon
Review by Neil Gordon
Embers by Sandor Maral
Review by Richard Eder
The Evidence Against Her by Robb Forman Dew
Review by Brigitte Frase
Hook Man Speaks by Matt Clark
Review by Daniel Handler
This Rock by Robert Morgan
Review by Katherine Whittemore
Rebecca's Tale by Sally Beauman
Review by Laura Shapiro
Washington Post Book World
Argall by William T. Vollmann
Review by William Tipper
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
The Path of Minor Planets by Andrew Sean Greer
Review by David Kipen
Haussmann, or the Distinction by Paul LaFarge
Review by Jonathan Kiefer
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Review by Allan M. Jalon
Empire Settings by David Schmahmann
Review by Martin Rubin
Sap Rising by Christine Lincoln
Review by Robin Beeman
Philadelphia Inquirer
Coldheart Canyon by Clive Barker
Review by John R. Alden
The Cuttlefish by Maryline Desbiolles
Review by Rhonda Dickey
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Review by Helen Mitsios
Chicago Tribune
The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus
Review by Brian Bouldrey
Bucking the Tiger by Bruce Olds
Review by Mark Luce
Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul
Review by Richard Stern
Boston Globe
Swift As Desire by Laura Esquivel
Review by Diana Abu-Jaber
Sailing Alone Around the Room by Billy Collins
Review by Thomas Lynch
LA Times
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Review by Michael Andre Bernstein
Sunday's Silence by Gina B. Nahai
Review by Marcos McPeek Villatoro
Discoveries:
Gabriel's Gift by Hanif Kureishi
The Devil's Larder by Jim Crace
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Sunday October 7, 2001
New York Times Book Review
The Practical Heart by Allan Gurganus
Review by Peter Parker
The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar
Review by Jeff Giles
The World Below by Sue Miller
Review by William H. Pritchard
Requiem For a Lost Empire by Andrei Makine
Review by Clare Cavanagh
All That Counts by Georg M. Oswald
Review by Geoff Nicholson
Four Corners by Diane Freund
Review by Sarah Ferguson
Books in Brief:
Red Dog by Louis de Bernieres
Review by Paul Bravmann
Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories by Greg Bottoms
Review by Jonathan Miles
On the Night Plain by J. Robert Lennon
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Swift as Desire by Laura Esquivel
Review by William Ferguson
About the Author by John Colapinto
Review by Jesse Lichtenstein
Erasure by Percival Everett
Review by Jenifer Berman
Washington Post Book World
The Sorrows of Love by Maxine Clair
Review by Lee Martin
The World Below by Sue Miller
Review by Robin Dougherty
Falling Angels by Tracy Chevalier
Review by Geraldine Brooks
San Francisco Chronicle
Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald
Review by Kenneth Baker
Shifu, You'll Do Anything for a Laugh by Mo Yan
Review by Sarah Coleman
Chicago Tribune
The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar
Review by Donna Seaman
Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub
Review by Chris Petrakos
London Bridges by Jane Stevenson
Review by Michael Upchurch
Niagara Falls All OVer Again by Elizabeth McCracken
Review by S.L. Wisenberg
Bombingham by Anthony Grooms
Review by Jason Berry
Philadelphia Inquirer
Argall by William T. Vollmann
Review by Andrew Ervin
LA Times
First Fiction:
Carter Beats the Devil by Glen David Gold
The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress by Dai Sijie
Review by Mark Rozzo
Flights of Love by Bernhard Schlink
Review by Richard Zimle
The Good German by Joseph Kanon
Review by Andrew Nagorski
My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk
Review by Jonathan Levy
Argall by William T. Vollmann
Review by William T. Vollmann
Discoveries:
Love in the Days of Rage by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lowell Limpett and Two Stories by Ward Just
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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