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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: 2007

Household Gods, by Deborah Cohen (Yale).
The New York Times Book Review, January 14, 2007

Conjugal Love, by Alberto Moravia, translated from the Italian by Marina Harss (Other).
The New Yorker, January 29, 2007

A Long Way Gone, by Ishmael Beah (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
The New Yorker, February 12, 2007

In Spite of the Gods, by Edward Luce (Doubleday).
The New Yorker, March 12, 2007

The High Road to China, by Kate Teltscher (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
The New Yorker, March 19, 2007

Inheritance, by Natalie Danford (St. Martin’s).
The New York Times Book Review, March 25, 2007

The Father of All Things, by Tom Bissell (Pantheon).
The New Yorker, March 26, 2007

Frail-Craft, by Jessica Fisher (Yale).
The New Yorker, April 9, 2007

A Far Country, by Daniel Mason (Knopf).
The New Yorker, April 16, 2007

Poor People, by William T. Vollmann (Ecco).
The New Yorker, April 30, 2007

The Welsh Girl, by Peter Ho Davies (Houghton Mifflin).
The New Yorker, May 21, 2007

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, by Mohsin Hamid (Harcourt).
The New Yorker, May 28, 2007

Varieties of Disturbance, by Lydia Davis (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).
The New Yorker, June 25, 2007

The Descendants, by Kaui Hart Hemmings (Random House).
The New Yorker, June 25, 2007

Spook Country, by William Gibson (Harcourt).
The New Yorker, July 23, 2007

Fieldwork, by Mischa Berlinski (Farrar, Straus & Giroux).

The Bestiary, by Nicholas Christopher (Dial).
The New York Times Book Review, August 5, 2007

Inside the Red Mansion, by Oliver August (Houghton Mifflin).
The New Yorker, August 6, 2007

Consumption, by Kevin Patterson (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday).
The New Yorker, September 3 & 10, 2007

Gifted, by Nikita Lalwani (Random House).
The New York Times Book Review, September 16, 2007

The Worst Intentions, by Alessandro Piperno, translated from the Italian by Ann Goldstein (Europa).
The New Yorker, September 24, 2007

Caspian Rain, by Gina B. Nahai (MacAdam Cage).
The New Yorker, October 8, 2007

Samedi the Deafness, by Jesse Ball (Vintage).
The New Yorker, October 15, 2007

The Last Cavalier, by Alexandre Dumas, translated from the French by Lauren Yoder (Pegasus).
The New Yorker, November 5, 2007

The Abstinence Teacher, by Tom Perrotta (St. Martin’s).
The New Yorker, November 12, 2007

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