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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: 2006

Get a Life, by Nadine Gordimer (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
The New Yorker
, January 9, 2006

The Space Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar (Morrow/HarperCollins).
The New York Times Book Review, January 22, 2006

Kornwolf, by Tristan Egolf (Black Cat).
The New Yorker, February 27, 2006

The Last of Her Kind, by Sigrid Nunez (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
The New Yorker, March 13, 2006

The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters (Riverhead).
The New Yorker, April 10, 2006

Duchess of Nothing, by Heather McGowan (Bloomsbury).
The New York Times Book Review, April 16, 2006

Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert (Viking).
The New Yorker, April 24, 2006

English, August, by Upamanyu Chatterjee (New York Review Books).
The New Yorker, May 15, 2006

You Must Set Forth at Dawn, by Wole Soyinka (Random House).
The New Yorker, May 22, 2006

Tamerlane, by Justin Marozzi (Da Capo).
The New Yorker, June 12, 2006

Living on Air, by Anna Shapiro (Soho).
The New Yorker, July 3, 2006

Temptations of the West, by Pankaj Mishra (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
The New Yorker, July 3, 2006

Lost Hearts in Italy, by Andrea Lee (Random House).
The New Yorker, July 10 & 17, 2006

The Prince of the Marshes, by Rory Stewart (Harcourt).
The New Yorker, August 7 & 14, 2006

The Banquet Bug, by Geling Yan (Hyperion East).
The New YorkTimes Book Review, August 27, 2006

Special Topics in Calamity Physics, by Marisha Pessl (Viking).
The New Yorker, August 28, 2006

An Iliad, by Alessandro Baricco, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Knopf).
The New Yorker, September 4, 2006

A Spot of Bother, by Mark Haddon (Doubleday).
The New Yorker, September 11, 2006

Breakable You, by Brian Morton (Harcourt).
The New York Times Book Review, October 1, 2006

Imperial Life in the Emerald City, by Rajiv Chandrasekaran (Knopf).
The New Yorker, October 9, 2006

Secondhand World, by Katherine Min (Knopf).
The New Yorker, October 23, 2006

Ancestor Stones, by Aminatta Forna (Atlantic Monthly).
The New Yorker, November 13, 2006

Mirrors of the Unseen, by Jason Elliot (St. Martin’s).
The New Yorker, December 11, 2006

Julius Winsome, by Gerard Donovan (Overlook).
The New Yorker, December 25, 2006 & January 1, 2007

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