Book reviews: 2001

The Kill Artist, by Daniel Silva (Random House).
The New Yorker, Feb. 19 & 26, 2001

An Unexpected Light, by Jason Elliot (Picador).
The New Yorker, April 16, 2001

The Gardens of Kyoto, by Kate Walbert (Scribner).
The New Yorker, June 4, 2001

The Song of the Earth, by Hugh Nissenson (Algonquin).
The New Yorker, June 11, 2001

Little America, by Henry Bromell (Knopf).
The New Yorker, July 30, 2001

Grand Ambition, by Lisa Michaels (Norton).
The New Yorker, September 3, 2001

Shanghai Baby, by Wei Hui, translated from the Mandarin by Bruce Humes (Pocket).
The New Yorker, September 24, 2001

Afghanistan, by Chris Steele-Perkins (Westzone/Trafalgar Square).
The New Yorker, October 1, 2001

The Tapir’s Morning Bath, by Elizabeth Royte (Houghton Mifflin).
The New Yorker, October 8, 2001

The Dog Department, by James Thurber, edited by Michael J. Rosen (HarperCollins).
The New Yorker, December 10, 2001

Talk Stories, by Jamaica Kincaid (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
The New Yorker, December 10, 2001

Vietnam: Spirits of the Earth, photographs by Mary Cross, text by Frances FitzGerald (Bulfinch).
The New Yorker, December 17, 2001