- May 30, 2005
- Creepshow
Hilary Mantel’s Beyond Black is spooky, smart, and deep.
- January 25, 1999
- "Sonny Liston Was A Friend of Mine"
- December 9, 2002
- Furious George
Bob Woodward’s Bush at War gets the trees (Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell) right. But the forest—the war on terror at home and abroad—is as dark as ever.
- September 8, 2002
- Helen of Boy
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides's new Homer-meets-hermaphrodite epic, bounces casually over oceans, and continents, and eras, and genders -- at times, it's a rough ride.
- April 9, 2001
- Smoked Signals
The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse
By Louise Erdrich.
- May 4, 1998
- Boyish Smarm
There's wit and good writing aplenty in Nick Hornby's "About a Boy." But the plot is a well-worn homily of emotional growth.
- May 14, 2001
- Canin Fodder
Carry Me Across the Water
By Ethan Canin
224 pages; Random House; $23.95.
- July 8, 2002
- Going Coastal
Pasadena
By David Ebershoff.
- October 6, 2003
- California Screamin'
Joan Didion has checked out of California—but as her new memoir, Where I Was From, shows, she can never leave.
- October 19, 1998
- In Brief: "Filth"
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