Book Reviews
New and Recent Books
Reviewed 10/23
Chinese in 1800s California: They Did Fight Back
Dracula as a 19th Century Schizophrenic
A Young Englishman's Adventures in the Australian Outback
Miracle Reunions With Firestorm Pet Survivors
A Physicist's View of Heaven
More Paglia Essays to Offend and Entertain
Reviewed 10/16
How the Arms Race Sank the Soviets
Restoring Robert Lowell to His Pedestal
The Nurse Who Challenged the Military's Anti-Gay Policy
Bus Tragedy Traced to the Drawing Board
Science Fiction: Bloody Seductions and Deals With the Devil
Fleshy Tale of a Family Feud
Reviewed 10/09
The Making of an American Revolutionary
Doris Lessing's Life
Cultural Insights Awash in Wordplay
Safe in the States, Mao's Doctor Tells All
Personal Memories Of the Civil Rights Struggle
Women Against Tyranny: Voices From Two Centuries
Reviewed 10/02
Stephen King Gives Abortion Issue His Own Twisted Spin
Extinction of a People
What If the Cold War Heated Up?
Oates Creates a Kind of `Ulysses in Midtown'
A Gay Writer on Gay Writing
Fiction That Feels Like a Family Memoir
A Family Hears Death's Echoes
Reviewed 09/25
Scaling the Walls That Fathers Build
Barbara Bush's Candid Memoirs
A Sequel to `Catch-22' After All These Years
The Gonzo King and Fry-Glutton Clinton
A Judge and His Undoing
The Sensitive Subject of Adoption
Exile and Change in the New South Africa
Reviewed 09/18
Strange Bedfellows: Mary Matalin and James Carville
Taking a Stand for the Land
Melody Beattie's 'The Lessons of Love'
'The Life and Genius of Art Tatum'
Remembering Scott Joplin
Reviewed 09/11
The Wild One: The Legendary Life of Marlon Brando
Eleanor and Franklin: A Superb Portrait of the Roosevelt Team
Tall Tales, True Dramas: Books on Audiocassette
Courtroom Drama: A Fine Web of Details That Make the Case
Secrets in the Summer Heat
Men, Women and Mortality
Plumbing the Secrets of Healthy People
Reviewed 9/4
A Dark Look at the Bird Man of Alcatraz
A Life in the Spotlight
Face to Face With a Death in the Family
Ned Rorem's Reprise
Picturing James Joyce
Al Capone: Brutal Gangster, Nice Guy
Women Take Back the Bible
A Murder in '90s Nottingham
Reviewed 8/28
John Irving's Adventures of the Anti-Garp
On the Verge of Synthetic Vision
Scratching the Mystery of Cats
Voices From the Ruins of Modern History
What Does God Really Want?
Sisters Under the Skin
Reviewed 8/21
Small-Town Revenge and Southern Hospitality
An Irreverent Zen Priest's Take on Japan
A Poet Confronts the World
Barbara Stanwyck: Hollywood's Gutsy Leading Lady
Somewhere Between Black and White
In the Good Old Days of Baseball