The First Five Years: Reviews, 1997-2001
Current Reviews
Ahmed's Revenge
by Richard Wiley
All Tomorrow's Parties
by
William Gibson
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
The Angel of Darkness
by Caleb Carr
Angry Young Spaceman
by
Jim Munroe
Armadillo
by William Boyd
The Body Artist
by Don DeLillo
Bone by Bone
by Peter Matthiessen
Choke
by Chuck Palahniuk
Dear Alice . . .
by Steven Ryniak
Dogwalker
by Arthur Bradford
Dreamer
by Charles Johnson
Dream Stuff
by David Malouf
The Dying Animal
by Philip Roth
The Elementary Particles
by Michel Houellebecq
Empire Falls
by Richard Russo
Enduring Love
by Ian McEwan
English Passengers
by Matthew Kneale
The Essential Gore Vidal
Ed. by Robert Kaplan
The Everlasting Story of Nory
by Nicholson Baker
The Extra Man
by Jonathan Ames
A Few Corrections
by Brad Leithauser
Filth
by Irvine Welsh
A Forest Burning
by
Carole Giangrande
Fury
by Salman Rushdie
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
by Stephen King
Glamorama
by Bret Easton Ellis
The Golden Age
by Gore Vidal
The Good Times
by James Kelman
The Ground Beneath Her Feet
by Salman Rushdie
Hannibal
by Thomas Harris
Hitler's Niece
by Ron Hansen
House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
How Did You Sleep?
by
Paul Glennon
The Human Stain
by Philip Roth
I Married a Communist
by Philip Roth
Island
by
Alistair MacLeod
Jimmy Corrigan
by Chris Ware
Juneteenth
by Ralph Ellison
The Leper's Companions
by Julia Blackburn
Licks of Love
by John Updike
Lifers
by Jeff Somers
Lightning on the Sun
by Robert Bingham
Lunar Encounter
by Harold W. Allen
Mason & Dixon
by Thomas Pynchon
Master Georgie
by Beryl Bainbridge
Miss Wyoming
by
Douglas Coupland
Mr. Phillips
by John Lanchester
Observatory Mansions
by Edward Carey
Plays Well With Others
by Allan Gurganus
The Poisonwood Bible
by Barbara Kingsolver
Portrait of an Artist, As an Old Man
by Joseph Heller
Purple Cane Road
by James Lee Burke
Sick Puppy
by Carl Hiaasen
The Smithsonian Institution
by Gore Vidal
South of the Border, West of the Sun
by Haruki Murakami
Sputnik Sweetheart
by Haruki Murakami
Star Wars Episode 1 - The Phantom Menace
by Terry Brooks
Still Wild
Ed. by Larry McMurtry
The Subject Steve
by Sam Lipsyte
The Trade
by
Fred Stenson
True at First Light
by Ernest Hemingway
True History of the Kelly Gang
by Peter Carey
Underworld
by Don DeLillo
The Year's Best Science-Fiction
Ed. by Gardner Dozois
Year's Best SF
Ed. by David G. Hartwell
Young Men
by
Russell Smith
Americana
by John Updike
The Beauty of the Husband
by
Anne Carson
Rest on the Flight into Egypt
by
A. F. Moritz
Second Opinions
brief reviews of award-winning books
Being Dead
by Jim Crace
The Blind Assassin
by
Margaret Atwood
Bones
by Jan Burke
Cimarron Rose
by James Lee Burke
Cold Mountain
by Charles Frazier
The Diamond Age
by Neal Stephenson
Disgrace
by J. M. Coetzee
The Elegant Universe
by Brian Greene
In the Heart of the Sea
by Nathaniel Philbrick
Mercy Among the Children
by
David Adams Richards
No Great Mischief
by
Alistair MacLeod
To Say Nothing of the Dog
by Connie Willis
The Millennium Books: A Survey
100 Best Films of the Century
by Barry Norman
The Adversary
by Emmanuel Carrère
Albert Camus
by Olivier Todd
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
by D. M. Thomas
American Exorcism
by Michael J. Cuneo
At Home With the Marquis de Sade
by Francine Du Plessix Gray
Bank Heist
by
Walter Stewart
Better Living
by
Mark Kingwell
Blind Eye
by James B. Stewart
The Bre-X Fraud
by
Douglas Goold
and
Andrew Willis
Byron
by Benita Eisler
The Canada Trip
by
Charles Gordon
Chasing the Chinook
by
Wayne Grady
Civilizations
by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Closed Chambers
by Edward Lazarus
Conduct Unbecoming
by
Howard Margolian
Consilience
by Edward O. Wilson
The Cult of Impotence
by
Linda McQuaig
Dark Shadows Falling
by Joe Simpson
The Dark Side of Camelot
by Seymour Hersh
The Death of Outrage
by William J. Bennett
Dogs and Demons
by Alex Kerr
Double Fold
by Nicholson Baker
Dream Catcher
by Margaret Salinger
Dying for Gold
by
Lee Selleck
and
Francis Thompson
An Empire Wilderness
by Robert D. Kaplan
The Essential Groucho
Ed. by Stefan Kanfer
Everest
by Broughton Coburn
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex
by David Reuben
Evolution
, by Carl Zimmer
Explaining Hitler
by Ron Rosenbaum
The File
by Timothy Garton Ash
The First World War
by John Keegan
Fotheringham's Fictionary of Facts and Follies
by
Allan Fotheringham
Going Up the River
by Joseph T. Hallinan
Groucho
by Stefan Kanfer
Guinness World Records, 2002
Hamlet on the Holodeck
by Janet Murray
The Hitler of History
by John Lukacs
Hitler: Nemesis
by Ian Kershaw
Hooking Up
by Tom Wolfe
How We Got Here: The 70s
by
David Frum
Imagining Atlantis
by Richard Ellis
In the Beginning
by Alister McGrath
Into Thin Air
by Jon Krakauer
The Island of Lost Maps
by Miles Harvey
James Joyce
by Edna O'Brien
John Adams
by David McCullough
Killing the Dream
by Gerald Posner
Life: The Movie
by Neal Gabler
Lights, Camera, Democracy!
by Lewis Lapham
Lives of the Poets
by Michael Schmidt
MAI
by
Maude Barlow
and
Tony Clarke
The Map That Changed the World
by Simon Winchester
Marching as to War
by
Pierre Berton
Maxwell's Demon
by Hans Christian von Baeyer
Morgan: American Financier
by Jean Strouse
Movies and Money
by David Puttnam
The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen
by
Murray Dobbin
The New Prince
by Dick Morris
No Logo
by
Naomi Klein
No More Teachers, No More Books
by
Heather-jane Robertson
Northrop Frye's Student Essays
Ed. by Robert D. Denham
One Market Under God
by Thomas Frank
Perfect Murder, Perfect Town
by Lawrence Schiller
The Perfect Storm
by Sebastian Junger
Petrified Campus
by
D. Bercuson
,
R. Bothwell
, and
J. L. Granatstein
The Pursuit of Division
by
Martin Loney
Rediscovering Gandhi
by Yogesh Chadha
Reflections of a Siamese Twin
by
John Ralston Saul
Rembrandt's Eyes
by Simon Schama
The Rich and How They Got That Way
by Cynthia Crossen
St. Augustine
by Gary Wills
The Seekers
by Daniel J. Boorstin
Shadow
by Bob Woodward
A Short History of Canada
by
Desmond Morton
Sleeping With Extra-Terrestrials
by Wendy Kaminer
Slumming It at the Rodeo
by
Gordon Laird
Somalia Cover-Up
by
Peter Desbarats
A Terrible Beauty
by Peter Watson
Tigers in the Snow
by Peter Matthiessen
Titan
by Ron Chernow
Too Close to Call
by Jeffrey Toobin
Tricky Dick and the Pink Lady
by Greg Mitchell
The Trouble With Democracy
by
William Gairdner
Underground
by Haruki Murakami
"Until You Are Dead"
by
Julian Sher
Untruth
by Robert J. Samuelson
A Vast Conspiracy
by Jeffrey Toobin
The War Against Boys
by Christina Hoff Sommers
When She Was Bad
by
Patricia Pearson
Where the Hell Are the Guns?
by
George G. Blackburn
Wide As the Waters
by Benson Bobrick
William Shakespeare
by Anthony Holden
World War 3.0
by Ken Auletta
Years of Renewal
by Henry Kissinger