Book Reviews

"Survival of the Fittest [a review of The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine]." The New York Times Book Review, 11 October (1998):13-14.

"Between the Covers [a review of A Widow for One Year by John Irving]." The Washington Post, 24 May (1998)

"Downscale in Topanga Canyon, Review of: The Tortilla Curtain [by] T. Coraghessan Boyle." Nation 25 September (1995):326-7.

"Called Out [by A.G. Mojtabai]." NYTBR 19 June (1994): 7(VII).

"Brazil [by John Updike]." NYTBR 6 February (1994): 1(VII).

"A Metaphysics of Resistance" [rev. of Forged Under the Sun/Forjado Bajo el Sol: The Life of Maria Elena Lucas, by Fran Leeper Buss]. WRB 11(5) February (1994):25-26.

"The Forest in the Seeds [Rev. of Faith in a Seed: The Dispersion of Seeds and Other Late Natural History Writings] by Henry D. Thoreau]." NH 102(10) October (1993): 36-38. Appears, reworked, as an essay titled "The Forest in the Seeds" in HTT.

"Desert Heat: So Far From God by Ana Castillo." LATBR 16 May (1993):1-9.

"Whipsawed in Washington: The Living [by Annie Dillard]." Nation 254(20) 25 May (1992):692-694.

"Where Love Is Nurtured and Confined: A Review of Me and My Baby View the Eclipse by Lee Smith" in Friendship and Sympathy: Communities of Southern Women Writers, Rosemary M. Magee, ed. University Press of Mississippi 1992: 255-257.

"Fish Fall From the Sky for a Reason: The Stories of Eva Luna [by Isabel Allende]." Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden. NYTBR 20 January (1991):13-14(1).

"Worlds in Collision [a review of Mean Spirit by Linda Hogan]." LATBR 4 November (1990):3.

"River of Traps: A Village Life [by William deBuys and (photographer) Alex Harris]. NYTBR Special Section: University Presses 23 September (1990): 33:1.

"Notes From Underground [a review of Where the Sun Never Shines: A History of America's Bloody Coal Industry, by Priscilla Long]." 7(9) WRB June (1990): 21-22.

"Where Love Is Nurtured and Confined: A review of Me and My Baby View the Eclipse by Lee Smith." LATBR 18 February (1990):2,9.

"Mormon Memories, Angeleno Enigmas. [a review of the Chinchilla Farm by Judith Freeman]." LATBR 19 November (1989):13.

"Some Can Whistle [by Larry McMurtry]." NYTBR 22 October (1989): 8:1.

"The Widows' Adventures [by Charles Dickinson]" NYBTR (1989).

"Night Time Losing Time [by Michael Ventura]." NYTBR 2 April (1989), 27:1.

"Albert Uplifts Anything [a review of The Floatplane Notebooks by Clyde Edgerton]." NYTBR 9 October (1989): 10:1.

"Surviving Fatherhood [a review of None of This Will Kill Me: Poems of Fatherhood by Jefferson Carter]." TW June 3-9 (1987).

"World of Foes [a review of Endless Enemies: The Making of An Unfriendly World by Jonathan Kwitny]." Progressive December (1984):44-45.

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