Scott Simon's Windy City

in The Washington Post Book World -- March 9, 2008

Michael Shnayerson's Coal River

in The Washington Post Book World -- February 10, 2008

Mark Levine's F5

in The Washington Post Book World -- August 12, 2007

James Tabor's Forever on the Mountain

in The Wall Street Journal -- July 17, 2007

Joan Quigley's The Day the Earth Caved In

from The Washington Post Book World -- July 8, 2007

Five Best Disaster Books

in The Wall Street Journal -- January 27, 2007

Dave Eggers's What is the What

from The Washington Post Book World (cover review image above) -- December 17, 2006

Sebastian Junger's A Death in Belmont

from The Washington Post Book World -- April 23, 2006

Joel Kotkin's The City: A Global History
and Robert Alter's Imagined Cities

from The Washington Post Book World -- July 24, 2005

John Rolfe Gardiner's The Magellan House

from The Washington Post Book World -- August 22, 2004

Cathy Day's The Circus in Winter

from The New York Times Book Review -- July 18, 2004

Andrew Sean Greer's The Confessions of Max Tivoli

from The New York Times Book Review -- February 8, 2004

Adam Johnson's Parasites Like Us

from The New York Times Book Review -- August 24, 2003

Penelope Lively's The Photograph

from The Washington Post Book World -- June 7, 2003

Jenny Davidson's Heredity

from The New York Times Book Review -- April 6, 2003

Simon Mawer's The Fall

from The New York Times Book Review -- January 5, 2003

Yann Martel's Life of Pi

from The New York Times Book Review -- July 7, 2002

Catherine Chidgey's The Strength of the Sun

from The New York Times Book Review -- May 19, 2002

Tobias Hill's The Love of Stones

from The Washington Post -- February 27, 2002

Toby Litt's Corpsing

from The New York Times Book Review -- January 27, 2002

Peter Carey's 30 Days in Sydney

from The New York Times Book Review -- September 16, 2001

Beryl Bainbridge's According to Queeney

from The Washington Post Book World -- August 21, 2001

Winberg and May-lee Chai's The Girl from Purple Mountain

from The New York Times Book Review -- July 8, 2001

Ethan Canin's Carry Me Across the Water

from The New York Times Book Review -- May 6, 2001

Christmas Books: Travel Roundup

from The New York Times Book Review -- December 3, 2000

Stephen King's On Writing

from Salon -- October 5, 2000

Frederick Reiken's The Lost Legends of New Jersey

from The New York Times Book Review -- August 20, 2000

Anchee Min's Becoming Madame Mao

from Salon -- June 1, 2000

Jim Crace's Being Dead

from Salon -- March 30, 2000

Stephen Amidon's The New City

from The Washington Post Book World -- February 20, 2000

Scott Turow's Personal Injuries

from The New York Times Book Review -- October 24, 1999

Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn

from Salon -- September 23, 1999

Antonia Logue's Shadow-Box

from The Washington Post Book World -- September 19, 1999

Edward Chancellor's Devil Take the Hindmost

from Salon -- June 14, 1999

A.M. Homes's Music for Torching

from The New York Times Book Review -- May 30, 1999

Christopher Tilghman's The Way People Run

from Salon -- May 20, 1999

Dale Ray Phillips's My People's Waltz

from The New York Times Book Review -- April 18, 1999

Colson Whitehead's The Intuitionist

from The New York Times Book Review -- February 7, 1999

Elmore Leonard's Be Cool

from Salon -- January 21, 1999

Beryl Bainbridge's Master Georgie

from Salon -- October 30, 1998

Marianne Wiggins's Almost Heaven

from The New York Times Book Review -- September 20, 1998

Jay McInerney's Model Behavior

from Salon -- September 21, 1998

Michael Palin's Hemingway's Chair

from Washington Post Book World -- June 22, 1998

Eric Liu's The Accidental Asian

from The New York Times Book Review -- May 24, 1998