BOOK REVIEWS IN CYBERSPACE

I wish I could find a good book to live in
Wish I could find a good book
Well if I could find a real good book
I'd never have to come out and look at
What they done to my song
Melanie
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This page represents a small effort to emphasize the importance of books even in the digital age. It is intended to counteract the mindset which maintains that cyberspace and literature are necessarily in conflict with one another and the internet is primarily for making money, playing video games, or some other prurient purpose. I am fully aware of the quixotic element in this endeavor; these days, it is difficult to keep the attention of librarians, let alone that of webgeeks, focused on the written word; but I will keep on trying.

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GENERAL FICTION AND NON-FICTION

Boston Globe Book Reviews

Los Angeles Times: Books & Talks

Washington Post Book World

The New York Times containing a searchable database of reviews since 1996

Ralph The Review of Art, Literature, Philosophy and the Humanities

Salon (e-zine) Book Reviews with an archive datiung back to 1997

Chicago Tribune: Books

London Review of Books

Cleveland Plain Dealer: Books

San Francisco Chronicle: Books

Hungry Mind Review

Village Voice: Books

Boston Herald: Books

K Book Review of books translated into English "which deserve a wider audience"

The Lansdowne Local a review of southern African literature

The Complete Review with indices by author, title, genre, national origin

Baltimore Sun Books

USA Today Books

Newsday Books

Chicago Sun-Times Books

BookPage

CNN Books

The Romance Reader

New York Review of Books including a searchable archive going back to 1963

Reason -- Book Reviews from a libertarian perspective

American Scientist the magazine of Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society

Boston Review

Austin Chronicle: Books

Philadelphia Inquirer Books

XJOHN LEONARD REVIEWS

from The Nation May 29, 2000
Ravelstein by Saul Bellow

from The Nation May 1, 2000
Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare

from The Nation April 10, 2000
Arthur Koestler: the Homeless Mind by David Cesarani

from The Nation December 13, 1999
The Spectator: Talk about Movies and Plays with Those Who Make Them by Studs Terkel

from The Nation May 10, 1999
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie

from The Nation November 16, 1998
I arried a Communist by Philip Roth

from The Nation August 24/31, 1998
Imagining Atlantis by Richard Ellis
Unearthing Atlantis: an archaeological odyssey by Charles Pelligrino
The Secret of Atlantis by Otto Muck
Mating by Norman Rush
Gaviotas: a village to reinvent the world by Alan Weisman

from The Nation June 15/22, 1998
Tne X Files (film) by 20th Century Fox
Dreamland: travels inside the secret world of Roswell and Area 51 by Phil Patton
Aliens in America: conspiracy cultures from outerspace to cyberspace by Jodi Dean
Serial Killers: death and life in America's wound culture by Mark Seltzer
The Dreams Our Stuff Is Made Of: how science fiction conquered the world by Thomas M. Disch

from The Nation May 11, 1998
Just As I Thought by Grace Paley

from the Nation January 26, 1998
Paradise by Toni Morrison

from The Nation November 3, 1997
Underworld by Don DeLillo

from The Nation July 28/August 4, 1997
André Malraux by Curtis Cate
Simenon by Pierre Assouline
Damned to Fame: The Life of Samuel Beckett by James Knowlson

from The Nation June 16, 1997
News of a Kidnapping by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Heart That Bleeds: Latin America Now by Alma Guillermoprieto
Mao II by Don DeLillo
News from a Foreign Country Came by Alberto Manguel
Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure by Don Baum

from The Nation May 6, 1966
The Shadow Man by Mary Gordon

John Leonard in The New York Review of Books

John Leonatd reviews from CBS Sunday Morning

BOOKLIST REVIEWS

COLLECTED BOOK REVIEW SITES

LITERARY CRITICISM

RECOMMENDED READING

Of course, there are many fine sources for book reviews which are not available online.  One which merits special attention is The Women's Review of Books, published by the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women.

Find out about literary prize winners on  The Awards Page by Virtual WordsWorth.

Also, check out the Recommended Reading lists from the New York Public Library
Postmodern Culture a literary e-zine from Johns Hopkins University with the Universtiy of Virginia and Vassar College,
and Book Reviews in science and literature by Paddy Carroll of Dublin, Ireland.

Transcripts of Booknotes author interviews beginning in 1989 are available from C-Span.

See John Whitt's Film Review Links.

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June 28, 2002