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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: 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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