October 2000 |
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Sunday October 29, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Martha Peake by Patrick McGrath
Review by Barry Unsworth
The Beast God Forgot to Invent by Jim Harrison
Review by Dwight Garner
Blue Ridge by T.R. Pearson
Review by Jacqueline Carey
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Review by John Lanchester
Supernatural Love: Poems 1976-1992 by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
The Throne of Labdacus by Gjertrud Schnackenberg
Review by Adam Kirsch
I Like Being Killed by Tibor Fischer
Review by Wiliam Deresiewicz
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
Review by Karen Karbo
A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
Review by Louisa Kamps
@Expectations by Kit Reed
Review by J.D. Biersdorfer
Books in Brief:
The Cave by Tim Krabbe
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Winter Range by Claire Davis
Review by Louise Jarvis
The Samsons by F. Sionil Jose
Review by Christopher Atamian
Dogrun by Arthur Nersesian
Review by Emily White
Serpent by Nicholas Mosley
Review by Bill Broun
Washington Post Book World
Grasshopper by Barbara Vine
Review by Dennis Drabelle
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guibn
Review by Gregory Feeley
The Templars by Piers Paul Read
Review by James Reston
The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
The Merciful Women by Federico Andahazi
Review by Jacob Molyneux
Martha Peake by Patrick McGrath
Review by Ellen Emry Heltzel
Philadelphia Inquirer
Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Roland Merullo
Well-Founded Fear by Tom LeClair
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Review by Joan Mellen
Chicago Tribune
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Review by Robert Hellenga
LA Times
Dreaming the Garden: Poems by Ann Stanford
Review by James Longenbach
Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky
Review by John Bayley
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Thursday October 26, 2000
New York Times
Merrick by Anne Rice
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday October 22, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
The Bridegroom: Stories by Ha Jin
Review by Claire Messud
The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
Review by William H. Pritchard
Glory Goes and Gets Some: Stories by Emily Carter
Review by Jodi Kantor
The Return of Felix Nogara by Pablo Medina
Review by Bob Shacochis
The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
Review by Lore Dickstein
Acts of God by Mary Morris
Review by Susan Bolotin
A New World by Amit Chaudhuri
Review by Richard Eder
Books in Brief:
The Curse of Dr. Sachs by Martin Winckler
Review by Claire Dederer
Fingers Pointing Somewhere Else by Daniela Fischerova
Review by Gabriel Sanders
Blind Ambitions by Lolita Files
Review by Matthew Flamm
Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
Review by Peter Bricklebank
Coney by Amram Ducovny
Review by Dana Kennedy
Washington Post Book World
First Fiction:
What She Saw by Lucinda Rosenfeld
A Good House by Bonnie Burnard
Money, Love by Brad Barkley
Lost by Lucy Wadham
Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt
Review by Sanford Pinsker
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole
Review by Jabari Asim
Joe College by Tom Perrotta
Review by Linton Weeks
Longing by J.D. Landis
Review by Martin Kettle
The Sagas of Icelanders: Edited by Jane Smiley
Review by Tim Page
San Francisco Chronicle
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Cathryn Alpert
The Means of Escape: Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Sarah Coleman
The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
Review by Erin McGraw
The Hunter by Julia Leigh
Review by Andrew Roe
Stardog by Jack Driscoll
Review by David Bowman
Philadelphia Inquirer
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Review by Justin Coffin
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon
LA Times
Discoveries:
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Review by Merle Rubin
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Review by Jonathan Levi
Chicago Tribune
Master of the Crossroads by Madison Smartt Bell
Review by Carey Harrison
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Loving Graham Greene by Gloria Emerson
Review by Suzanne Rhodenbaugh
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Friday October 20, 2000
New York Times
Off Keck Road by Mona Simpson
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell
Review by Carolyn See
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Thursday October 19, 2000
New York Times
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Review by Janet Maslin
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Worthy's Town by Sharon Rolens
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
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Tuesday October 17, 2000
New York Times
The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday October 15, 2000
New York Times Book Review
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Review by Robert Irwin
Loving Graham Greene by Gloria Emerson
Review by William Boyd
Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell
Review by Kim France
Joe College by Tom Perrota
Review by Maria Russo
After the War by Alice Adams
Review by Molly Haskell
The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt
Review by Myla Goldberg
The Green Suit by Dwight Allen
Review by Alice Elliot Dark
The Color of Summer by Reinaldo Arenas
Review by Lee Siegel
Books in Brief:
Land of Smiles by T.C. Huo
Review by Paula Friedman
Red Stick Men: Stories by Tim Parish
Review by Chris Navratil
Midnight Sun by Elwood Reid
Review by Jonathan Miles
A House in Earnest by Terry Farish
Review by James Polk
Artemisia by Alexandra Lapierre
Review by Peter Bricklebank
Washington Post Book World
Louisa by Simone Zelich
Review by Judith Bolton-Fasman
The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
Review by Susan Jacoby
Shopgirl by Steve Martin
Review by Lydia Millet
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Collected Poems by Stanley Kunitz
Review by Stephen DiLauro
Martin Bauman by David Leavitt
Review by Doanld Newlove
San Francisco Chronicle
After the War by Alice Adams
Review by Sarah Coleman
Grant by Max Byrd
Review by Michael Fellman
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Review by Joan Smith
LA Times
Discoveries:
The Means of Escape by Penelope Fitzgerald
Disobedience by Jane Hamilton
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
First Fiction
The Green Suit by Dwight Allen
Alice Falling by William Wall
The Sugar Island by Ivonne Lamazares
Review by Mark Rozzo
Loving Graham Greene by Gloria Emerson
Review by Edward W. Said
Chicago Tribune
The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams
Review by Alan Cheuse
The Old American by Ernest Hebert
Review by Alan Cheuse
The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits
Review by Alyce Miller
St. Louis Post Dispatch
Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
Blue Ridge by T.R. Pearson
Review by Harry Levins
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Sunday October 8, 2000
New York Times
How the Dead Live by Will Self
Review by Tom Shone
Martin Bauman by David Leavitt
Review by Laura Miller
A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
Review by Albert Mobilio
Well-Founded Fear by Tom LeClair
Review by Andrew Santella
Books in Brief:
Gloria by Keith Maillard
Review by Jesse Browner
Conditions of Faith by Alex Miler
Review by William Ferguson
The Little Tragedies by Alexander Pushkin
Review by Jod Kaftan
Stonehenge by Bernard Cornwell
Review by Michael Porter
Discovering the Body by Mary Howard
Review by Nina Sonenberg
Someone Else's Child by Nancy Woodruff
Review by Ruth Coughlin
Washington Post Book World
Stone Field, True Arrow by Kyoko Mori
Review by Carol Zall
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Review by Laura Miller
An Obedient Father by Akhil Sharma
Review by Shashi Tharoor
San Francisco Chronicle
A Girl With A Monkey by Leonard Michaels
Review by Charles Baxter
Stories From The Corner by F.X. Toole
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
The Bridegroom by Ha Jin
Review by Steven G. Kellman
The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart by Alice Walker
Review by Marcela Valdes
Say Uncle by Kay Ryan
Review by Sharon Doubiago
Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky
Review by Allan M. Jalon
Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
Review by Joshua Kosman
Philadelphia Inquirer
Louisa by Simone Zelitch
Review by Maralyn Lois Polak
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review by Margaria Fichtner
Human Nature by Toby Olson
Civilian Histories by Lee Upton
Butterfly Effect by Harry Humes
Review by Scott Edward Anderson
LA Times
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Review by Jonathan Levi
O Lost by Thomas Wolfe
Review by Douglas Brinkley
Discoveries:
The Hill Bachelors by William Trevor
The Visitor by Maeve Brennan
The Beast God Forgot to Invent by Jim Harrison
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Review by Regina Marler
Chicago Tribune
The Hatbox Baby by Carrie Brown
Review by Kevin Baker
The Bridegroom by Ha Jin
Review by Michael Upchurch
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Review by John J. Ryan
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Friday October 6, 2000
New York Times
The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
The Bridegroom by Ha Jin
Review by Carolyn See
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Review by J. Stephen Bolhafner
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Wednesday October 4, 2000
New York Times
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Review by Richard Eder
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Tuesday October 3, 2000
New York Times
A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday October 1, 2000
New York Times Book Review
An Empire of Women by Karen Shepard
Review by James McManus
What She Saw by Lucinda Rosenfeld
Review by Jeff Giles
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Review by Andrew Sullivan
The Collected Poems by Stanley Kunitz
Review by Robert Campbell
The Slum by Aluisio Azevedo
Review by Scott L. Malcomson
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
Review by Brigitte Frase
The Map Of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Review by Annette Kobak
Books in Brief:
The Lucky Gourd Shop by Joanna Catherine Scott
Review by Paige Williams
Fordlandia by Eduardo Sguiglia
Review by David L. Ulin
The Day Laid on the Altar by Adria Bernardi
Review by Catherine Osborne
An Obvious Enchantment by Tucker Malarkey
Review by David Yaffe
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Review by Gail Gilliland
Washington Post Book World
Fordlandia by Eduardo Sguilia
Review by Jonathan Yardley
The Song and the Truth by Helga Ruebsamen
Review by Claire Messud
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Review by Michael Schaffer
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Review by Roderick MacLeish
Grant Speaks by Ev Ehrlich
Review by Ken Ringle
The Means of Escape: Stories by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Review by Sarah Coleman
Purple Cane Road by James Lee Burke
Review by David Lazarus
The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve
Review by Gerald Shapiro
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Review by Daniel Akst
Love, the Magician by Brian Bouldrey
Review by Eileen Pollack
Four Blondes by Candace Bushnell
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Tell Me by Kim Addonizio
Review by Cynthia Haven
The Moon Pearl by Ruthanne Lum McCunn
Review by Kimberly Chun
Philadelphia Inquirer
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Review by Lionel Shriver
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Review by Eils Lotozo
LA Times
The Heartsong of Charging Elk by James Welch
Review by Thomas Curwen
Sirena Selena by Mayra Santos-Febres
Review by Peter Green
First Fiction:
What She Saw in by Lucinda Rosenfeld
The Last Days of Disco by Whit Stillman
Coney by Avram Ducovny
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
The Song and the Truth by Helga Ruebsamen
What Are You Like by Anne Enright
The Cave by Tim Krabbe
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Chicago Tribune
Troublemakers by John McNally
Review by Don De Grazia
The Green Suit by Dwight Allen
Review by David L. Ulin
St. Louis Post Dispatch
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Review by Dale Singer
A Kiss of Shadows by Laurell K.Hamilton
Review by J. Stephen Bolhafner
The Map of Love by Ahdaf Soueif
Review by Patricia Corrigan
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