Book Reviews

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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