- July 10, 2000 | The Book Review
- Goomba Gothic
With "The Godfather," Mario Puzo invented a genre mixing family rituals with vengeful violence. "Omerta" shows it outlives him -- just barely.
- September 11, 2000 | The Book Review
- Bed and Bored
Hard-bitten authors Candace Bushnell and Lucinda Rosenfeld give us two satires of sex and single girls. But can comic cynicism hide their romantic hearts?
- April 8, 2002 | The Book Review
- Karma Chameleon
The Impressionist
By Hari Kunzru
Fingersmith
By Sarah Waters
- July 23, 2001 | The Book Review
- The King's Ransom
Elvis in the Morning
By William F. Buckley Jr.
- January 21, 2002 | The Book Review
- Touching Tones
I'll Let You Go
By Bruce Wagner
- October 1, 2001 | The Book Review
- Candle Power
Borrowed Finery
By Paula Fox
Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St. Vincent Millay
By Nancy Milford
- January 1, 2001 | The Book Review
- Vogue's Gallery
Bright Young Things, Picturing New York: The City From Its Beginnings to the Present
- November 6, 2000 | The Book Review
- Critic Cornered
Ghost Light: A Memoir
By Frank Rich.
Random House; 311 pages; $24.95.
- July 24, 2000 | The Book Review
- Troubled Harry
Harry Potter's appeal isn't the cutesy magic but his struggle with the anxieties of pubescence; adults struggle with a childhood without innocence.
- September 4, 2000 | The Book Review
- The Powers That Bleed
Jane Mendelsohn returns with an arty tale of young girls and the vampires who love them; Rebecca Goldstein shows that even scientists can believe in souls.
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