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Book Reviews
Below are book reviews which have appeared in American Book Review, Books in Canada--The Canadian Review of Books, Quarter After Eight, Rain Taxi, and the Review of Contemporary Fiction. Online Reviews (reviews written specifically for this site) and reviews from Amazon come after.
American Book Review
The Parson's Widow
by Marja-Liisa Vartio (Volume 30, Number 1, November/December 2008)
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Everything Passes
by Gabriel Josipovici (January/February 2008)
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You can visit www.carcanet.co.uk to order Gabriel's book
Books in Canada
The Last Novel
by David Markson (June 2008)
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The Book of Chameleons
by José Eduardo Agualusa (January/February 2008)
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The Solzhenistyn Reader: New and Essential Writings 1947-2005
edited by Edward E. Ericson, Jr. and Daniel F. Mahoney (December 2007)
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African Psycho
by Alain Mabanckou (December 2007)
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Descents of Memory: The Life of John Cowper Powys and
Porius
by Morine Krissdóttir and John Cowper Powys (November 2007)
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Conversations with Professor Y
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (October 2007)
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Double-Blind
by Michelle Butler Hallett (October 2007)
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Firmin: Adventures of a Metropolitan Lowlife
by Sam Savage (October 2007)
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Die, Lady, Die
by Alejandro López (September 2007)
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The Voice of the Heart:
The Workings of Mervyn Peake's Imagination
by G. Peter Winnington (September 2007)
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From Squaw Tit to Whorehouse Meadow: How Maps Name, Claim, and Inflame and Oceans: An Illustrated Reference
by Mark Monmonier and Dorrik Stow respectively (March 2007)
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Skipping Towards Armageddon:
The Politics and Propaganda of the Left Behind Novels and the LaHaye Empire
by Michael Standaert (January/February 2007)
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The Singer on the Shore: Essays 1991-2004
by Gabriel Josipovici (November 2006)
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Siberia
by Nikolai Maslov (November 2006)
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Centuria: One Hundred Ouroboric Novels
by Giorgio Manganelli (October 2006)
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Things in the Night and
Hidden Camera
by Mati Unt and Zoran Zivkovic (September 2006)
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Lunar Follies
by Gilbert Sorrentino (May/June 2006)
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A Strange Commonplace
by Gilbert Sorrentino (May/June 2006)
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Over the Rainbow? Hardly: Collected Short Seizures
by Chandler Brossard (April 2006)
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My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973
by Harry Mathews (January/Febuary 2006)
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Going Down
by David Markson (January/February 2006)
Copyright © 2005 by David Markson from Going Down: A Novel.
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Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time
by Michael Downing (November 2005)
Copyright © 2006 by Michael Downing from Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving Time.
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Sebastian's Arrows:
Letters and Mementoes of Salvador Dali and Federico Garcia
Lorca ed, trans., annotated by Christopher Maurer (October 2005)
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A*hole
by Hilton Obenzinger (September 2005)
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Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel García Márquez (September 2005)
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Tribute to Saul Bellow
(May 2005)
The End: Hamburg 1943
by Hans Erich Nossack (March 2005)
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Vanishing Point
by David Markson (January/February 2005)
Copyright © 2004 by David Markson from Vanishing Point: A Novel.
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Right and Left
by Joseph Roth (November 2004)
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The Fountain at the Center of the World
by Robert Newman (September 2004)
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Goldberg: Variations
by Gabriel Josipovici (September 2004)
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Siegfried
by Harry Mulisch (August 2004)
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The Moon in Its Flight
by Gilbert Sorrentino (June/July 2004)
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Tests of Time: Essays
by William H. Gass (April/May 2004)
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Dan Yack,
Confessions of Dan Yack and
Gold
by Blaise Cendrars (January/February 2004)
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Actress in the House
by Joseph McElroy (January/Febuary 2004)
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P
by Andrew Lewis Conn (January/Febuary 2004)
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Three Novellas
by Thomas Bernhard (December 2003)
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The Dance of Geometry
by Brian Howell (October 2003)
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Ascension
by Steven Galloway (September 2003)
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Agapē Agape and
The Rush for Second Place
by William Gaddis (April 2003)
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Literary Review
God, Hell, Sex and Tobacco
Review of Collaborators by Janet Kaufmann
February 1989
Spanish Fly By Night
Review of City of Marvels by Carlos Mendoza
December 1988
Unholy and not Innocent
Review of The Unholy Innocents: A Romance by Gilbert Adair
October 1988
Rain Taxi
The Letters of John Cowper Powys
and Emma Goldman
by David Goodway (Fall 2008 online issue)
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The Review of Contemporary Fiction
Review of Kissed By
by Alexandra Chasin (Summer 2008)
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For my review of this book,
please visit dalkeyarchive.com/catalog/show_comment/1544
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Review of Colonel Zoo
by Oliver Cadiot (Summer 2006)
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Review of Memories of My Melancholy Whores
by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Spring 2006)
Review of Writers on the Air:
Conversations about Books and
The Believer's Book of Writers Talking to Writers
by, respectively, Donna Seaman and Vendela Vida, ed.
(Spring 2006)
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Review of Gold
by Blaise Cendrars (Summer 2005)
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Review of Moravagine
by Blaise Cendrars (Spring 2005)
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Review of P
by Andrew Lewis Conn (Spring 2004)
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Review of Witch Grass and
We Always Treat Women Too Well
by Raymond Queneau (Fall 2003), reprinted in CONTEXT #15 (Spring 2004)
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Review of To the End of the World
by Blaise Cendrars (Spring 2003),
reprinted in CONTEXT #13 (Spring 2003)
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Review of Selected Works of Cesare Pavese
by Cesare Pavese, trans. and intro. R.W. Flint (Summer 2002)
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Quarter After Eight
Jonathan Franzen,
The Corrections
NY: Picador USA, 2002, 592 pp., $15.00, paperback, fiction.
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Copyright © 2001 by Jonathan Franzen.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
James Buchan,
The Persian Bride
Boston: Mariner, 1999, 343 pp., paperback, fiction.
Mark Z. Danielewski,
House of Leaves
London: Pantheon, 2002, 709 pp., paperback, fiction.
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Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Prose and Commentary,
Volume 9 (2002), pp.201-04, published in March 2003.
Online Reviews
These reviews are available on this site only.
The Last Novel
by David Markson
June 2008
This is an alternate version of the review that appeared in Books in Canada. See above for the printed version.
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Time at War
by Nicholas Mosley
September 2008
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Amazon.com Reviews
The Enchanted House
by Beth E. Janzen
"Room for everyone" -- September 11, 2007
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Tests of Time: Essays
by William Gass
"Not much of an essay writer" -- May 13, 2004
[See BiC for a lengthy review of this book]
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Memed My Hawk
by Yashar Kemal
"Sturdy but it doesn't involve one" -- December 25, 2001
The First World War
by Ivan Klima
"A servicable work" -- December 13, 2001
My Golden Trades
by Ivan Klima
"A light touch" -- December 13, 2001
Women of Sand and Myrrh: A novel
by Hanan Al-Shaykh
"Parched" -- November 24, 2001
The Persian Bride
by James Buchan
"Poetic, hard-edged and timely" -- November 6, 2001
[see "Three Reviews" for another review of this book]
The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
"A tight fit" -- October 30, 2001
[see "Three Reviews" for another review of this book]
The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen. Copyright © 2001 by Jonathan Franzen.
Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
Wyndham Lewis: Painter and Writer
by Paul Edwards
"A clear gaze on a murky fellow" -- October 28, 2001
Legally Speaking:
Contemporary American Culture and the Law
by Helle Porsdam
"A persuasive case" -- April 3, 2001
The Intuitionist: A Novel
by Colson Whitehead
"An underwhelming novel" -- March 14, 2001
November 1916: The Red Wheel/Knot II
by Aleksandr Isaevich Solzhenitsyn
"Hunting for history with a big net" -- December 9, 2000
Petrushka and the Dancer: the Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939
by John Cowper Powys
"Not just another english eccentric" -- December 2, 2000
Rude Assignment
by Wyndham Lewis
"Look into the shadows" -- November 30, 2000
Diaries: 1899-1941
by Robert Musil
"The penetrating mind of Robert Musil" -- November 27, 2000
Moravagine
by Blaise Cendrars
"Sickness unto death" -- September 19, 2000
[see RCF for another review of this book]
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"Since at Least Plato...": And Other Postmodernist Myths
by M.J. Devaney
"Passion and intelligence combined" -- June 9, 2000
Vast Alchemies
by G. Peter Winnington
"The mind and art behind the 'Titus' books" -- May 29, 2000
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