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