Book reviews: 2003
Cathedrals of the Flesh, by Alexia Brue (Bloomsbury).
The New Yorker, January 20, 2003
Pattern Recognition, by William Gibson (Putnam).
The New Yorker, February 3, 2003
The Devil That Danced on the Water, by Aminatta Forna (Atlantic Monthly).
The New Yorker, February 17 & 24, 2003
The Gate, by François Bizot, translated from the French by Euan Cameron (Knopf).
The New Yorker, March 31, 2003
The Mission: Waging War and Keeping Peace with America’s Military, by Dana Priest (Norton).
The New Yorker, April 14, 2003
The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen, by Jacques Pépin (Houghton Mifflin).
The New Yorker, May 19, 2003
Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point, by David Lipsky (Houghton Mifflin).
The New Yorker, July 7, 2003
The Unconquerable World, by Jonathan Schell (Metropolitan).
The New Yorker, July 14 & 21, 2003
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, by Mark Haddon (Doubleday).
The New Yorker, August 4, 2003
In the Name of Ishmael, by Giuseppe Genna, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Miramax).
The New Yorker, August 18 & 25, 2003
She Is Me, by Cathleen Schine (Little, Brown).
The New Yorker, September 15, 2003
Chasing the Sea, by Tom Bissell (Pantheon).
The New Yorker, September 29, 2003
And Now You Can Go, by Vendela Vida (Knopf).
The New Yorker, October 13, 2003
Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier, edited by Boris Fishman (Justin, Charles).
The New Yorker, October 13, 2003
Elizabeth Costello, by J. M. Coetzee (Viking).
The New Yorker, October 27, 2003
The Calligrapher, by Edward Docx (Houghton Mifflin).
The New Yorker, December 8, 2003
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