- January 25, 1999
- "Lila Says"
- February 5, 2001
- Battlefield Barbie
Shutterbabe By Deborah Copaken Kogan, The Art of Arts By Anita Albus
- December 17, 2001
- Upon This Rock
The Rock
By Kanan Makiya
Pantheon; 352 pages; $26.
- June 5, 2000
- Banks's Account
A collection from 37 years of Russell Banks's short stories displays the talents of a writer known more for the chilly films made from his novels.
- February 15, 1999
- The Smashing Eggheads
Norman Podhoretz's memoir of bare-knuckle intellectuals is good, trashy reading -- Jerry Springer by another name.
- November 1, 2004
- Boys on the Bus
Novelist Stephen Elliott unleashes his wounded innocence on Campaign 2004.
- February 14, 2000
- Heaven Can Wait
E. L. Doctorow's newest depicts a New York on its way to a spiritual awakening. But as a novel, it doesn't quite get out of bed.
- April 22, 2002
- Boy of Wonders
Everything Is Illuminated
By Jonathan Safran Foer.
- March 12, 2001
- Emerald Bile
My Dream of You By Nuala O'Faolain, Aiding and Abetting By Muriel Spark
- October 21, 2002
- Road Show
Dave Eggers sends two slackers staggering off to save the world by giving money to strangers. Genius? No. Shrewdly observed, multileveled, highly funny? Definitely.

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