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March 26, 2001
Horse Play

Seabiscuit: An American Legend, By Laura Hillenbrand; The Hole in the Universe, By K. C. Cole

March 9, 1998
She's Gotta Have It

In her strange new novel, "Spending," Mary Gordon has taken the themes of Jackie Collins and transposed them to the Upper West Side.

November 8, 2004
The Line of Beauty

Alan Hollinghurst’s fourth novel is a scathing examination of the sexual, racial, and class fault lines of the Thatcher era.

January 3, 2005
The Way We Don't Quite Live Now

A ballyhooed Corrections knockoff from Down Under points up the stalled state of the social novel.

June 11, 2001
Fuzzy Logic

Kissing in Manhattan
By David Schickler
Sister Crazy
By Emma Richler

May 16, 2005
The Coast of Akron

Beneath the bright cocktail patter of 'Akron,' there is not only the whiff of smugness that often accompanies the irreproachably hip, but also a critical remoteness.

April 21, 2003
Descent of Man

James Frey’s barroom machismo is the key to a swaggering recovery in his new memoir of addiction.

October 30, 2000
By Midas Touched

Greek Fire: The Story of Maria Callas and Aristotle Onassis
By Nicholas Gage; 424 pages; Alfred A. Knopf; $26.95.
America's Queen: The Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
By Sarah Bradford; 500 pages; Viking; $29.95.

March 31, 2003
Pulling the Plug

From the wilderness (the Adirondacks) comes a voice (Bill McKibben’s Enough) telling us that the end is near unless we repent (technologically). Scientists aren’t likely to listen.

August 30, 1999
Townmouse

Disney's controlled experiment in small-town life is both a little Utopia and a breed of fascism. But mostly, there's not enough there there.

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