Book reviews: 2005
Bangkok Tattoo, by John Burdett (Knopf).
The New Yorker, July 11 & 18, 2005
Turn the Beat Around, by Peter Shapiro (Faber & Faber).
The New Yorker, July 11 & 18, 2005
The All of Oppenheimer:
American Prometheus, by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (Knopf).
The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer, by Priscilla J. McMillan (Viking).
109 East Palace, by Jennet Conant (Simon & Schuster).
Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, by Lydia Millet (Soft Skull).
The New Yorker, July 25, 2005
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, by Rebecca Solnit (Viking).
The New Yorker, August 8 & 15, 2005
Sky Burial, by Xinran, translated from the Mandarin by Julia Lovell and Esther Tyldesley (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday).
The New Yorker, August 22, 2005
26a, by Diana Evans (William Morrow)
The New York Times Book Review, September 25, 2005
A Man with No Talents, by Oyama Shiro, translated from the Japanese by Edward Fowler (Cornell).
The New Yorker, November 7, 2005
The Ongoing Moment, by Geoff Dyer (Pantheon)
The New Yorker, November 21, 2005
Warped Passages, by Lisa Randall (Ecco)
The New Yorker, November 21, 2005
The Sing-Song Girls of Shanghai, by Han Bangqing, translated from the Mandarin and the Wu by Eileen Chang and revised and edited by Eva Hung (Columbia)
The New Yorker, December 26, 2005 & January 2, 2006
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