“John Henry Days”
In Colson Whitehead's dazzling follow-up to "The Intuitionist," a junketeering journalist pursues an American legend in an epic tale of man, machine and free drinks.
Friday, May 11, 2001 7:14 PM UTCEntertainment Books
In Colson Whitehead's dazzling follow-up to "The Intuitionist," a junketeering journalist pursues an American legend in an epic tale of man, machine and free drinks.
Friday, May 11, 2001 7:14 PM UTCA May-December romance in a post-apartheid South Africa where violence is always ready to erupt.
Thursday, Apr 19, 2001 7:48 PM UTCWith this full-tilt novel of youthful catastrophe and hellbent debauchery, a bartender kicks in the door of Southern literature.
Wednesday, Feb 21, 2001 7:04 PM UTCThe confessed minimalist's new book proves that the much-reviled genre can still break your heart.
Wednesday, Nov 15, 2000 8:00 PM UTCImbued with all the gravelly melancholy of a Tom Waits ballad, the new book by the author of "Legends of the Fall" presents a cast of prickly, coarse and utterly lovable antiheroes.
Thursday, Oct 19, 2000 7:00 PM UTCA tribute to moonshiners, squirrel-brain eaters, cockfighters and other Southern holdouts against a bland and uniform national culture.
Wednesday, Sep 13, 2000 7:00 PM UTCThe latest from the Native American novelist probes the culture shock of an Oglala Sioux abandoned in France by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
Tuesday, Aug 15, 2000 7:00 PM UTCThe long-awaited novel by a New York Times and New Yorker darling is a plodding, goody-two-shoes effort that reads like a dusty Boy Scout manual.
Tuesday, Jun 13, 2000 7:05 PM UTCIn stories from nearly four decades, the writer demonstrates an astonishing range, a wonderful eye and a finely tuned talent for breaking hearts.
Thursday, Jun 8, 2000 6:00 PM UTCA daring first novel probes the psychological -- and sexual -- lives of the celebrated Siamese twins.
Monday, May 22, 2000 11:58 AM UTCIn a terrific first novel, a restless 18-year-old feminist idles away a summer on an island of irascible Maine lobstermen.
Tuesday, May 16, 2000 4:00 PM UTCA member of Jon Krakauer's ill-fated Everest expedition gives his version of the spring '96 mountaintop disaster.
Tuesday, Apr 25, 2000 4:00 PM UTCFrom the English novelist, a tale of brief sexual slavery and the years of dissipation that follow.
Monday, Mar 20, 2000 5:00 PM UTCA superb portrayal of the restless and randy travel writer brings us as close to his hidden heart as we're likely to get.
Wednesday, Mar 1, 2000 5:00 PM UTCThe Native American novelist thinks Ian Frazier had no business writing "On the Rez." He may have some trespasses of his own to answer for.
Monday, Feb 14, 2000 4:00 PM UTCAcid wasn't the only mindblower the '60s guru preached.
Monday, Jan 31, 2000 5:00 PM UTCIt starts quietly enough, with two kids copping a joint -- and then it spins into a breakneck thriller.
Thursday, Jan 27, 2000 5:00 PM UTCAnother arctic thriller -- replete with starvation, executions, mutiny and cannibalism -- deserves a place alongside the best of them.
Friday, Jan 21, 2000 5:00 PM UTCWilliam Least Heat-Moon talks about traveling the nation's waterways and the nonfiction writer's debt to the truth.
Thursday, Dec 9, 1999 5:00 PM UTCHemingway-tough or Fitzgerald-sensitive? Today's novelists scramble for a masculinity that doesn't seem fake.
Thursday, Dec 2, 1999 5:00 PM UTCPage 1 of 2 in Jonathan Miles