The Book Box:
Reviews, Short Essays, and Notes
Fiction
The Lone
Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, by Sherman Alexie
Without Fail,
by Lee Child
Birthright: A Novel, by
Andrew Coburn
Playland,
by John Gregory Dunne
Clouds without
Rain: An Ohio Amish Mystery, by
P.L. Gaus
Mosquito
Bites and Computer Bytes: Amitav Ghosh's The Calcutta Chromosome
Champagne
Kisses, Cyanide Dreams, by Ralph Graves
No
Second Wind, by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
Coyote
Returns,
by Micah S. Hackler
A Note on
the Novels of Tony Hillerman
Criminal
Conversation, by
Evan Hunter
Reconsidering
Waymarsh: Notes on Henry James's The Ambassadors
Name
Withheld,
by J.A. Jance
Latin
Moon in Manhattan, by Jaime Manrique
Evan Hunter, Writing as Ed McBain
Sidney Poitier, in a Very Bad Way: A
Note on the Function of Bryant in V.S. Naipaul
's
Guerrillas
A Note on Two Poems by
Sharon Olds
Death Benefits,
by Thomas Perry
Ghost of a Flea,
by James Sallis
Pipsqueak,
by Brian M. Wiprud
The Kidnapping of
Rosie Dawn, by Eric Wright
Nonfiction
Unsolved Mysteries of
History, by Paul Aron
Made in
America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States,
by Bill Bryson
Criminal
Quotes, Edited
by Andrew Chesler and H. Amanda Robb
A Massive
Swelling: Celebrity
Re-Examined As a Grotesque, Crippling Disease and Other Cultural Revelations,
by Cintra Wilson
Some Notes on the
Travel Narrative, with Special Emphasis on Tony Horwitz's One for the Road:
Hitchhiking through the Australian Outback
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