Selected Book Reviews: New and Old

2002

* Paul Schrader's Screenplays

* Master of the Senate by Robert A. Caro

* Hotel World by Ali Smith

* The Scarlet Professor by Barry Werth

* A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford

* Rapture by Susan Minot

* Dawn Powell's Novels

* The Times of Their Lives by by James Deetz and Patricia Scott Deetz

2001

* The Elusive Tolkien

* The 2001 O. Henry Awards

* Mona and Other Tales by Reinaldo Arenas

* Lost Classics edited by Michael Ondaatjie

* Half a Life by V.S. Naipaul

* The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

* Chaon, Schickler, Iribarne

* The New Sins by David Byrne

2000

* The Quick and the Dead by Joy Williams

* Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution by Richard Fortey

* When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

* Schmidt Delivered by Louis Begley

* The PowerBook by Jeanette Winterson

* The Family Orchard by Nomi Eve

* Licks of Love by John Updike

* Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike

* Nabokov: Butterflies, Blues, and Boyd

* The Verificationist by Donald Antrim

* James Dickey: The World as a Lie by Henry Hart

* The Elementary Particles by Michel Houellebecq

* Bellow by James Atlas

* Joan of Arc by Mary Gordon

1999

* Burr and Hamilton: The Feud Continues