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  • Ligaya Mishan edits The New Yorker’s book blog and writes restaurant and book reviews for the magazine. She is also a frequent contributor to the New York Times Book Review. She was born on Sunset Boulevard and grew up in Honolulu; has been a shoe model, a tutor at the Supreme Soviet, and an advertising writer; and now lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the composer Ahrin Mishan, and their daughter, Calla.

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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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