September 2000 |
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Friday September 29, 2000
New York Times
Martin Bauman by David Leavitt
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Thursday September 18, 2000
New York Times
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday September 24, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
Review by Janice P. Nimura
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Review by Ken Kalfus
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review by Michael Gorra
Tideland by Mitch Cullin
Branches by Mitch Cullin
Review by Jim Lewis
The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits
Review by Anita Gates
The Genius of the World by Alice Lichtenstein
Review by Nina Sonenberg
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Review by Abraham Verghese
Only Yesterday by S.Y. Agnon
Review by Jonathan Rosen
Wild Life by Molly Gloss
Review by Abby Frucht
Books in Brief:
Open House by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Barbara Fisher
The Horse Fair: Poems by Robin Becker
Review by Carmela Ciuraru
The Mile High Club by Kinky Friedman
Review by David L. Ulin
Anthropology by Dan Rhodes
Review by Lori Leibovich
Wyoming by Barry Gifford
Review by Jonathan Miles
Washington Post Book World
The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits
Review by Heather Hewett
Morgan's Run by Colleen McCullough
Review by Elizabeth Ward
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
Martin Bauman, or A Sure Thing by David Leavitt
Review by David Wiegand
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review by Brian Bouldrey
Lying Awake by Mark Salzman
Review by Robin Beeman
Luck by Eric Martin
Review by Ken Foster
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Review by James Held
Ben, in the World by Doris Lessing
Review by Maggie Galehouse
LA Times
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Review by Morrie Ruvinsky
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Collected Poems of Stanley Kunitz
Review by Adam Kirsch
Discoveries:
A Blind man Can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
The Mile High Club by Kinky Friedman
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post Dispatch
The Hatbox Baby by Carrie Brown
Review by Naima A. Wartts
Chicago Tribune
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Review by Michael Upchurch
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Sunday September 17, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Collected Poems in English by Joseph Brodsky
Review by Sven Birkerts
Longing by J.D. Landis
Review by James Polk
Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein
Review by Sylvia Brownrigg
Ghostwritten by David Mitchell
Review by Richard Eder
Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard
Review by Bruce DeSilva
Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys
Review by Michael Upchurch
Pipers at the Gates of Dawn: A Triptych by Lynn Stegner
Review by Lauren MacIntyre
Books in Brief:
Flashman and the Tiger by George MacDonald Fraser
Review by Jennifer Reese
No Good-byes by Elaine Kagan
Review by Ruth Coughlin
Wild Kids by Chang Ta-chan
Review by Maureen McLane
Daemonomania by John Crowley
Review by Jeff Waggoner
Diamond Dogs by Alan Watt's
Review by Megan Harlan
Washington Post Book World
The Last Samurai by Helen De Witt
Review by Steven Moore
How the Dead Live by Will Self
Review by Jonathan Carroll
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann
Review by Paul Di Filippo
Under the Skin by Miachael Faber
Review by Jonathan Fasman
Harry Gold by Millicent Dillon
Iron Shoes by Molly Giles
Several Deceptions by Jane Stevenson
Review by Christopher Clausen
Jayber Crow by Wendell Berry
Review by Chris Lehmann
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
The Night Listener by Armistead Maupin
Review by David Wiegand
Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris
Review by Catherine Davidson
The Diagnosis by Alan Lightman
Review by Floyd Skloot
The Mineral Palace by Heidi Julavits
Review by Adam Dunn
The Last Days of Disco by Whit Stillman
Review by Jason K. Friedman
Antigua and My Life Before by Marcela Serrano
Review by Cathryn Alpert
Just Passing Through by Paco Ignacio Taibo II
Review by Alan Cheuse
Philadelphia Inquirer
Properties of Light by Rebecca Goldstein
Review by Carlin Romano
A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
Review by Steve Goldstein
Deus lo Volt by Evan Connell
Review by John R. Alden
LA Times
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Review by Kevin Baker
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
All the Names by Jose Saramago
Acts of God by Mary Morris
A Total View of Taftly by Scott Morris
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Chicago Tribune
Nowhere Else on Earth by Josephine Humphreys
Review by Kathryn Rhett
A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
Review by Charles Dickinson
The Golden Age by Gore Vidal
Review by Richard Stern
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review by Peter Wolfe
Tulsa Time by Letha Albright
Review by Steve Weinberg
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Sunday September 10, 2000
New York Times Book Review
The Lily Theater by Lulu Wang
Review by John Burnham Schwartz
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole
Review by Allen Barra
The Blackwater Lightship by Colm Toibin
Review by Rand Richards Cooper
Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz
Review by Maile Meloy
A Blind Man can See How Much I Love You by Amy Bloom
Review by Joan Smith
Innocence by Jane Mendelsohn
Review by Louis Bayard
Assorted Fire Events: Stories by David Means
Review by Maria Russo
Books in Brief:
Catching Heaven by Sands Hall
Review by Kimberley B. Marlowe
The Last Days of Disco by Whit Stillman
Review by Peter Khoury
The Murdered House by Pierre Magnan
Review by Sudip Bose
Caution: Men in Trees: Stories by Darrell Spencer
Review by Jefff Waggoner
A Density of Souls by Christopher Rice
Review by Jennfier Reese
Selected Poems by Fanny Howe
Review by Melanie Rehak
Washington Post Book World
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Fiction:
The Man Who Ate the 747 by Ben Sherwood
Life Isn't All Ha Ha Hee Hee by Meera Syal
My Juliet by John Ed Bradley
The Hatbox Baby by Carrie Brown
The Lake by Daniel Villasenor
Review by Patrick Anderson
San Francisco Chronicle
I Like Being Killed: Stories by Tibor Fischer
Review by Sarah Coleman
A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
Review by Brian Bouldrey
Joe College by Tom Perrotta
Review by Mark Luce
Winter Range by Claire Davis
Review by Ron Franscell
Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard
Review by David Lazarus
The Sun: A Novel Told in 63 Woodcuts by Frans Masereel
The Idea and Story Without Words by Frans Masereel
Review by Kenneth Baker
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Review by Edna Stumpf
Harbor Lights by Theodore Weesner
Review by Michael Harrington
In My Other LIfe: Stories by Joan Silber
Review by Rita Giordano
Liar's Game by Eric Jerome Dickey
Review by Sheilah Vance
LA Times
Rope Burns by F.X. Toole
Review by Walter Bernstein
A Friend of the Earth by T.C. Boyle
Review by Eric Zencey
Chicago Tribune
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro
Review by Peter Ho Davies
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Friday September 8, 2000
New York Times
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Review by Michiko Kakutani
LA Times
Her Infinite Variety by Louis Auchincloss
Review by Anthony Day
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Thursday September 7, 2000
Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard
Review by Janet Maslin
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Sunday September 3, 2000
New York Times Book Review
Modern Art by Evelyn Toynton
Review by Francine Prose
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Review by Thomas Mallon
The Rules of Engagement by Catherine Bush
Review by Catherine Lockerbie
Stella in Heaven by Art Buchwald
Review by Reeve Lindbergh
The Notorious Dr. August by Christopher Bram
Review by Paul Quarrington
Books in Brief:
Elizabeth and After by Matt Cohen
Review by Andrea King Collier
Iron Shoes by Molly Giles
Review by Barbara Sutton
My Juliet by John Ed Bradley
Review by Jonathan Miles
Laura by Larry Watson
Review by Bruce Allen
A Pure Clear Light by Madeleine St. John
Review by Maggie Galehouse
Washington Post Book World
Pagan Babies by Elmore Leonard
Review by Jonathan Yardley
A Friend of the Earth by T. C. Boyle
Review by Lisa Zeidner
Laura by Larry Watson
Review by Howard Frank Mosher
Fiction:
Six Crooked Highways by Wayne Johnson
L.I.E. by David Hollander
The Granny by Brendan O'Carroll
What a Woman Must Do by Faith Sullivan
Review by Paul Kafka-Gibbon
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
Review by Steven G. Kellman
The Spell: A Romance by Tom Clark
Review by Barbara Hoffert
The Collapsible World by Anne N. Marino
Review by David Wiegand
Under the Skin by Michel Faber
Review by Reamy Jansen
The Last Jew by Noah Gordon
Review by Floyd Skloot
Philadelphia Inquirer
English Passengers by Matthew Kneale
Review by Frank Wilson
Longing by J.D. Landis
Review by David Walton
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Innocence by Jane Mendelsohn
Review by Sylvia Duncan
Chicago Tribune
Longing by J.D. Landis
Review by Alan Cheuse
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Friday September 1, 2000
New York Times
An Obvious Enchantment by Tucker Malarkey
Review by Richard Bernstein
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