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Spring 2003

Fiction
· Baudolino
book by Umberto Eco
reviewed by Jennifer Stock

· Good Faith
book by Jane Smiley
reviewed by Tom Isler

· The Hazards of Good Breeding book by Jessica Shattuck
reviewed by Allie Stielau

· The Autograph Man
book by Zadie Smith
reviewed by Benita Singh

· The Crazed
book by Ha Jin
reviewed by Sophie Pinkham

Nonfiction


· Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
book by Orlando Figes
reviewed by Katherine Poltorak

· Cross Roads
book by Karel Capek
Karel Caper: Life and Work
book by Ivan Klima
reviewed by Jonas Oransky

· A Daring Young Man:
A Biography of William Saroyan
book by John Leggett
reviewed by Megan Pugh

· Predicting New Words:
The Secrets of Their Success
book by Allan Metcalf
reviewed by Katherine Poltorak

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Features


· Monograph
by Carey Seal

· can't judge a cover by its book
by Lucas Hanft

· Letter to an Undergraduate
from Peter Brooks

· Finis
by Elizabeth Archibald

Nonfiction


· Reinventing the Male Homosexual
book by Robert Alan Brookey
reviewed by Timothy Bradley

· Leonardo da Vinci:
Master Draftsman
exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
reviewed by Susannah Rutherglen

· In the Deep Heart's Core
book by Michael Johnston
reviewed by Michelle Chen

· Mercator: The Man Who Mapped the Planet
book by Nicholas Crane
reviewed by Margaret Fox

· On the Natural History of Destruction
book by W.G. Sebald
reviewed by Sonja Ostrow

· The Hipster Handbook
book by Robert Lanham
reviewed by Emma Pollack-Pelzner

· Samuel Pepys:
The Unequalled Self
book by Claire Tomalin
reviewed by Bikram Chatterji

· Vanished Splendors
book by Balthus, as told to Alain Vircondelet
reviewed by Jacqueline Ko

· The Right Man:
The Suprise Presidency of
George W. Bush
book by David Frum
reviewed by David Noyola

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