For People Who Devour Books

Book Reviews by
John Dugdale

From the May 2000 Issue

Clinton As Greek Hero

The Human Stain

By Philip Roth

From the February 2002 Issue

Chip, Gary and Denise

The Corrections

By Jonathan Franzen

From the January 1998 Issue

How Two Great Americans See One Garbage Dump

Underworld

By Don Lelillo

From the September 2016 Issue

Unmade in Manhattan

Bright, Precious Days

By Jay McInerney

From the March 2016 Issue

Cruel to Be Kind

Cruel to Be Kind

By Javier Marías (Translated by Margaret Jull Costa)

From the March 2003 Issue

Brothers In Arms

The Time of Our Singing

By Richard Powers

From the May 2003 Issue

Master Of The Universe

Cosmopolis

By Don DeLillo

From the February 2004 Issue

Too Old To Rebel

The Early Stories 1953-1975

By John Updike

From the July 2004 Issue

A Suitcase of Spiders

Oblivion: Stories

By David Foster Wallace

From the August 2004 Issue

Star Story

The Book Nobody Read

By Owen Gingerich

From the October 2004 Issue

The Assassin’s Agony

Checkpoint: A Novel

By Nicholson Baker

From the November 2004 Issue

Imagine a Fascist in the White House

The Plot Against America

By Philip Roth

From the December 2004 Issue

Emma Bovery as a Dixie Chick

I Am Charlotte Simmons

By Tom Wolfe

From the August 2006 Issue

High-School Jihad

Terrorist

By John Updike

From the March 2010 Issue

Room With A Viewing

Point Omega

By Don DeLillo

From the November 2009 Issue

Rough Cuts

Beginners

By Raymond Carver

From the July 2009 Issue

Charlie and the Dream Factory

Sunnyside

By Glen David Gold

From the April 2009 Issue

Southern Discomfort

The Missing

By Tim Gautreaux

From the December 2008 Issue

Out of the Crucible

Arthur Miller: The Definitive Biography

By Christopher Bigsby

From the July 2008 Issue

Primary Colours

America America

By Ethan Canin