A brief consultation of the Internet will show that meanwhile, at the other end of the business, everyone has become a literary critic — or at least a book-reviewer.
—Martin Amis, The War Against Cliché

[If you want to be on the list of people I notify of new reviews, send me mail.]

2007-08-04:

• Tycho & Kepler, Kitty Ferguson [July-August 2007]
• French Revolutions, Tim Moore [August 2003, July 2007]
• In High Gear, Samuel Abt [July 2007]
• The Secret Life of Lobsters, Trevor Corson [June 2007]
• Thumbs Up Australia, Tom Parry [June 2007]
• Clara's Grand Tour, Glynis Ridley [June 2007]
• No Onions Nor Garlic, Srividya Natarajan [May 2007]
• A Geoscience Guide to the Burgess Shale, Murray Coppold and Wayne Powell [May 2007]
• Opening Skinner's Box, Lauren Slater [May 2007]
• The Portugal Story, John Dos Passos [April-May 2007]
• Pleasure by the Busload, Emily Kimbrough [April-May 2007]
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, J.K. Rowling [April 2007]
• The Lusíads, Luiz Vaz de Camões [April 2007]
• Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen, Larry McMurtry [March-April 2007]
• The Psychedelic Armadillo Picnic, Kinky Friedman [March 2007]
• Unconventional Success, David Swensen [March 2007]
• A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, Marina Lewycka [February 2007]
• Gilgamesh, anonymous [February 2007]

2007-02-11:

• Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides [January-February 2007]
• The Dog Fence, James Woodford [January-February 2007]
• Country, Tim Flannery [January 2007]
• The Dig Tree, Sarah Murgatroyd [January 2007]
• A Spirit of Play, David Malouf [January 2007]
• In It to Win It, Peter Roebuck [January 2007]
• Not a Nice Man to Know, Khushwant Singh [December 2006-January 2007]

2007-01-01:

• Buddha Da, Anne Donovan [December 2006]

2006

• The Age of Kali, William Dalrymple [November-December 2006]
• Revolving Culture, Angus Calder [November 2006]
• Modern Scottish Culture, Michael Gardiner [November 2006]
• Walking Through Scotland's History, Ian R. Mitchell [November 2006]
• The Forgotten Hume, Ernest Campbell Mossner [November 2006]
• The Emperor's New Kilt, Jan-Andrew Henderson [November 2006]
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman [October 2002, November 2006]
  
• The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen [October 2006]
• Crowded with Genius, James Buchan [October 2006]
• Stones of Empire, Jan Morris with Simon Winchester [September-October 2006]
• The Songlines, Bruce Chatwin [September 2006]
• The Road From Coorain, Jill Ker Conway [September 2006]
• In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson [September 2006]
• Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic, Anita Burdman Feferman and Solomon Feferman [September 2006]
• Fatal Shore, Robert Hughes [August-September 2006]
• How to Lie With Maps, Mark Monmonier [July 2006]
• Among the Thugs, Bill Buford [June-July 2006]
• The World of Christopher Marlowe, David Riggs [June-July 2006]
• The Thinking Fan's Guide to the World Cup, Edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey [June-July 2006]
• The Speckled Monster, Jennifer Lee Carrell [June-July 2006]
• Picklehead, Rohan Candappa [May-June 2006]
• Tibet's Sacred Mountain, Russell Johnson and Kerry Moran [May 2006]
• Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman [May 2006]
• Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim, David Sedaris [April-May 2006]
• The Natural, Bernard Malamud [April-May 2006]
• Golden Stages of the Tour de France, Compiled by Richard Allchin and Adrian Bell [April 2006]
• Dr. Johnson's Dictionary, Henry Hitchings [April 2006]
• Six Memos for the Next Millennium, Italo Calvino [March 2006]
• Imprint of the Raj, Chandak Sengoopta [February-March 2006]
• The Control of Nature, John McPhee [February-March 2006]
• An Entertainment for Angels, Patricia Fara [February 2006]
• Amazing Grace, E.S. Turner [February 2006]
• 36 Views of Mount Fuji, Cathy Davidson [January-February 2006]
• Wrong About Japan, Peter Carey [January 2006]
• Small World, David Lodge [January 2006]
• The Navigator of New York, Wayne Johnston [January 2006]
• Mysteries of Terra Firma, James Lawrence Powell [January 2006]

2005

• Hogarth: A Life and a World, Jenny Uglow [November-December 2005]
• The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman [December 2005]
• The Short Reign of Pippin IV, John Steinbeck [December 2005]
• The War Against Cliché, Martin Amis [December 2005]
• The King of Sunlight, Adam Macqueen [December 2005]
• Nobody's Perfect, Anthony Lane [November 2005]
• 1215: The Year of Magna Carta, Danny Danziger and John Gillingham [November 2005]
• Why Things Break, Mark Eberhart [November 2005]
• Mapping Mars, Oliver Morton [September-October 2005]
• Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile, Phil Patton [October 2005]
• City Life, Witold Rybczynski [October 2005]
• One More Kilometre and We're in the Showers, Tim Hilton [September 2005]
• Beyond the Blue Horizon, Alexander Frater [September 2005]
• Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons [September 2005]
• One Wheel Many Spokes, Lars Clausen [August 2005]
• Pilgrimage to India, Pramila Jayapal [August 2005]
• 23 Days in July, John Wilcockson [August 2005]
• Mountain Passages, Jeremy Bernstein [August 2005]
• Yellow Fever, Jeremy Whittle [July 2005, September 2002]
• The Perfect Mile, Neal Bascomb [July 2005]
• The Third Man, Graham Greene [June 2005]
• A Walk Across France, Miles Morland [June 2005]
• Almost French, Sarah Turnbull [June 2005]
• Pat and Kirby go to Hell, Robert Kirby and Pat Bagley [June 2005]
• On the Natural History of Destruction, W.G. Sebald [May 2005]
• Sam Patch, the Famous Jumper, Paul E. Johnson [May 2005]
• The Turk, Tom Standage [May 2005]
• Monster of God, David Quammen [April-May 2005]
• Talk of the Devil, Riccardo Orizio [April 2005]
• The Shipping News, E. Annie Proulx [April 2005]
• The Riddle and the Knight, Giles Milton [April 2005]
• Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation, Edward Chancellor [March-April 2005]
• Eating in the Dark, Kathleen Hart [March 2005]
• Spain: The Root and the Flower, John A. Crow [March 2005]
• Invertebrate Spain, José Ortega y Gasset [February-March 2005]
• Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line, David L. Kirp [February-March 2005]
• On a Shoestring to Coorg, Dervla Murphy [February 2005]
• The Creation of the Future, Frank H. T. Rhodes [February 2005]
• Dialogue with Death, Arthur Koestler [February 2005]
• A Darker Shade of Crimson, Ruben Navarrette, Jr. [January 2005]

2004

• The Frozen-Water Trade, Gavin Weightman [December 2004]
• Why Switzerland?, Jonathan Steinberg [November-December 2004]
• Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris [December 2004]
• A Tour of the Calculus, David Berlinski [December 2004]
• Parting the Desert, Zachary Karabell [September-November 2004]
• Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders, Lawrence Weschler [November 2004]
• La Place de la Concorde Suisse, John McPhee [November 2004]
• River of Shadows, Rebecca Solnit [November 2004]
• A Significant Other, Matt Rendell [November 2004]
• Blandings Castle, P.G. Wodehouse [October 2004]
• Life at Blandings, P.G. Wodehouse [October 2004]
• A Wodehouse Bestiary, P.G. Wodehouse [October 2004]
• The Invention of Clouds, Richard Hamblyn [September-October 2004]
• London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd [April-October 2004]
• How the Cadillac Got its Fins, Jack Mingo [October 2004]
  
• Mistress Masham's Repose, T.H. White [October 2004]
• The Tower Menagerie, Daniel Hahn [September 2004]
• Coronation Everest, James Morris [August 2004]
• A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat, Emma Levine [July 2004]
• Do Not Pass Go, Tim Moore [June 2004]
• Cricket and All That, Henry Blofeld [June 2004]
• Only a Bloody Game!, Tony Rossiter [May 2004]
• Brilliant Orange, David Winner [May 2004]
• The Barmy British Empire, Terry Deary [May 2004]
• A Rhyming History of Britain, James Muirden [April 2004]
• Illustrated English Social History: 1, G. M. Trevelyan [April 2004]
• In Search of Britain, Michael Wood [April 2004]
• Every Second Counts, Lance Armstrong [March 2004]
• Angels and Demons, Dan Brown [March 2004]
• Picasso's War, Russell Martin [March 2004]
  
• Remembering Denny, Calvin Trillin [March 2004]
• Boswell's Presumptuous Task, Adam Sisman [February-March 2004]
  
• At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig, John Gimlette [February 2004]
  
• The Gatekeepers, Jacques Steinberg [February 2004]
  
• The Name of War, Jill Lepore [January 2004]
• Sweetness and Power, Sidney Mintz [January 2004]
  
• The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown [January 2004]
  

2003

• Two Wheels in the Dust, Anne Mustoe [December 2003]
• England, Nikos Kazantzakis [December 2003]
• Measuring America, Andro Linklater [December 2003]
  
• The Emperors of Chocolate, Joël Glenn Brenner [December 2003]
• McSweeney's Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales, edited by Michael Chabon [December 2003]
• Out of the Flames, Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone [December 2003]
• Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman [November-December 2003]
  
• Journeys, Jan Morris [February-November 2003]
  
• Driving Mr. Albert, Michael Paterniti [November 2003]
  
• The Peterbilt Journals, Alan Haworth [November 2003]
  
• The Yellow Jersey, Ralph Hurne [October-November 2003]
  
• The Sewing Circles of Herat, Christina Lamb [October 2003]
• The Measure of All Things, Ken Alder [October 2003]
• The Devil's Cloth: A History of Stripes, Michel Pastoureau [October 2003]
  
• Koba the Dread, Martin Amis [September 2003]
  
• The Rider, Tim Krabbé [September 2003]
• Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee [September 2003]
• Sacré Blues, Taras Grescoe [September 2003]
  
• Girl with a Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier [August 2003]
  
• My 'Dam Life, Sean Condon [August 2003]
• French Revolutions, Tim Moore [August 2003, July 2007]
  
• A Bike Ride: 12000 Miles Around the World, Anne Mustoe [August 2003]
  
• Magic Christian, Terry Southern [August 2003]
  
• The Arcanum, Janet Gleeson [July 2003]
  
• Super Car, Mark Christensen [July 2003]
  
• Dating Your Mom, Ian Frazier [July 2003]
  
• Celebration Chronicles, Andrew Ross [June 2003]
  
• The Tummy Trilogy, Calvin Trillin [June 2003]
  
• Flight Maps, Jennifer Price [June 2003]
  
• Peck's Bad Boy and his Pa, George W. Peck [May-June 2003]
  
• The Small Bachelor, P.G. Wodehouse [May 2003]
  
• Wittgenstein's Poker, David Edmonds and John Eidinow [May 2003]
  
• Travel Writing, L. Peat O'Neil [May 2003]
  
• Time's Pendulum, Jo Ellen Barnett [May 2003]
  
• Henry Ford and the Jews, Neil Baldwin [May 2003]
  
• Acquired Tastes, Peter Mayle [May 2003]
  
• Basket Case, Carl Hiaasen [May 2003]
  
• Up The Agency: The Funny Business of Advertising, Peter Mayle [May 2003]
  
• Last Train to Paradise, Les Standiford [May 2003]
  
• The Picador Book of Cricket, Ramachandra Guha (ed.) [April-May 2003]
  
• Uniforms, Paul Fussell [April 2003]
  
• Amsterdam, Ian McEwan [April 2003]
  
• One Pitch Away, Mike Sowell [April 2003]
  
• Tishomingo Blues, Elmore Leonard [April 2003]
  
• Designs on the Land, Alex S. MacLean [April 2003]
  
• Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, Molly Ivins [April 2003]
  
• Motiba's Tattoos, Mira Kamdar [March 2003]
  
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey, Thornton Wilder [March 2003]
  
• The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco [March 2003]
  
• A Worldly Art, Mariët Westermann [March 2003]
  
• Social Studies, Fran Lebowitz [March 2003]
  
• Gutenberg, John Man [February-March 2003]
  
• Nobody's Fool, Richard Russo [March 2003]
  
• A Woman's Education, Jill Ker Conway [February 2003]
  
• 16^th Century Paintings, Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen [March 2003]
  
• 15^th Century Paintings, Rose-Marie and Rainer Hagen [February 2003]
  
• Ways of Seeing, John Berger and others [January 2003]
  
• The Best American Travel Writing, edited by Frances Mayes [January 2003]
  
• Harvey's Heart, Andrew Gregory [January 2003]
  
• The Ice Finders, Edmund Blair Bolles [January 2003]
  
• Kitchen Confidential, Anthony Bourdain [January 2003]
  
• Metropolitan Life, Fran Liebowitz [January 2003]
  

2002 and Earlier

• Millionaire, Janet Gleeson [December 2002]
  
• The Bone Lady, Mary Manhein [December 2002]
  
• La Capital, Jonathan Kandell [December 2002]
  
• The Road to Oxiana, Robert Byron [December 2002]
  
• Headlong, Michael Frayn [December 2002]
  
• Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica, John Kendrick Bangs [December 2002]
  
• The Northern Lights, Lucy Jago [November 2002]
  
• Mendeleyev's Dream, Paul Strathern [November 2002]
  
• Coyote v. Acme, Ian Frazier [November 2002]
  
• Beyond the Edge of the Sea, Mauricio Obregón [October 2002]
  
• One Good Turn, Witold Rybczynski [October 2002]
  
• Home, Witold Rybczynski [October 2002]
  
• The Kon-Tiki Expedition, Thor Heyerdahl [October 2002]
  
• How the Scots Invented the Modern World, Arthur Herman [October 2002, November 2006]
  
• Yellow Fever, Jeremy Whittle [September 2002]
  
• The Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck [June-July 2001]
  
• In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, Nathaniel Philbrick [June 2001]
  
• The Debt of Pleasure, John Lanchester [May 2001]
  
• The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, David Kertzer [April 2001]