Book reviews and criticism by Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.comwww.samizdat.com

• Moonlight in Odessa by Janet Skeslien Charles
• The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
• The Mystery of the Mystery of Edwin Drood, a review of The Last Dickens by Matthew Pearl
• The Russia Hand by Strobe Talbott
• A Pause that Refreshes -- Ten Days in the Hills by Jane Smiley
• If Only I Had a Brain -- Trying to Understand Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
• The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl
• Specimen Days by Michael Cunningham
• Arthur and George by Julian Barnes
• Saints by Orson Scott Card
• Fear and Trembling by Amelie Nothomb
• Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Beware of The Diviners by Rick Moody
• More and More Saramago, Please
• Reshaping Europe for fun and satire, a review of The Stone Raft by Jose Saramago and The Island of Crimea by Vassily Aksyonov
• Using Fairy Tales as Launch Pads for Serious Fiction the Works of Gregory Maguire
• A Day in the Life of a Surgeon (Saturday by Ian McEwan)
• Thank you, Matthew Pearl (a review of The Dante Club)
• Filial Respect in Confucius and Socrates and the divergence of Western and Chinese Philosophic Traditions
• The Bombast Transcripts by Christopher Locke
• Smart Mobs by Howard Rheingold
• Small Pieces Loosely Joined by David Weinberger
• Justice My Brother by Roberta Kalechofsky
• Another look at Moliere's l'Avare
• Dryden's Exemplary Drama (lengthy essay)
• Mercy Warren: Conscience of the American Revolution a review of "The Rise, Progress and Termination of the American Revolution"
• Blinded at Birth, poems by Diane Croft
• House Call to the Past by Janet Elaine Smith
• Introduction to the world next door -- Sadie's Song by Linda Hall
• What a difference a translation makes -- The Iliad translated by Robert Fagles
• At the end of the tunnel -- vibrating strings, some of which are light: the world can be known, The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
• Multiple reflecting mirrors: Fiction about fiction, fictitious biography about fictitious biography-- The Biographer's Tale by A.S. Byatt and The Notebooks of Lana Skimnest by Anselm Atkins
• China today -- The Search for Modern China by Jonathan Spence, Soul Mountain by Gao Xingjian, When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro, and The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan
• Enjoying Faulkner
• Powerbook by Jeanette Winterson
• Cultural interpreters, opening foreign worlds -- Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri, House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus III, Waiting by Ha Jin, The Death of Vishnu by Manil Suri, and The Samurai's Garden by Gail Tsukiyama
• Getting the story right. Chocolat: the movie and the novel
• Why great companies fail: The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen and Living on the Fault Line by Geoffrey Moore
• What's my line? a review of Mason & Dixon by Thomas Pynchon
• Granta -- more than a literary magazine
• Old-fashioned fun and mutability in Barth's Sot-Weed Factor
• The Gift by Patrick O'Leary
• Pilgrim in a modern hell
• Trying to enjoy Bellow
• The New New Thing by Michael Lewis
• The speculative fiction of Patrick O'Leary and Victor Pelevin
• What Remains to be Discovered by John Maddox
• Buddha's Little Finger by Victor Pelevin
• High Stakes, No Prisoners by Charles Ferguson
• Read Harry aloud -- Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
• The resurrection of the Good Soldier Svejk. New translation bring sclassic comedy to life.
• Rapping with Socrates, a review of The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton
• Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers
• Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins
• Metro by Jeff Edmunds
• Nothing matters -- it matters a lot. Review of "Perfect Vacuum" by Stanislaw Lem
• Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas
• White Teeth by Zadie Smith
• Anil's Ghost by Michael Ondaatje
• The History of the Siege of Lisbon by Jose Saramago
• November 1916 by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
• Quest for the Jade Sea by Pascal James Imperato
• Shakespeare would love it -- Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike
• Having fun with Einstein and politics -- Einstein's Bridge by John Cramer
• Transforming history from narrative to science -- Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond
• Messiah soul brothers -- Ender, Bean, and Harry Potter
• Katheryn's Secret by Linda Hall
• One Vermeer painting, two works of fiction
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric Raymond
• The importance of listening (more about The Cluetrain Manifesto)
• The Cluetrain Manifesto by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger
• Weaving the Web : The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee
• The slavery that was Rome (in Plautus, Terence, and Petronius)
• The real story of Around the World in 80 Days
• Why I'm addicted to Robert Parker, despite and because of all his faults
• Anticipation in Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennett, How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton, The Language Instinct by Steven Pinker, and The Dilbert Future by Scott Adams
• The Other Herodotus
• Scifi thoughts prompted by Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• The Three Musketeers and its sequels by Alexandre Dumas
• A Widow for One Year by John Irving
• The Border Trilogy by Cormac McCarthy
• The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil
• The Sea Came in at Midnight by Steve Erickson
• Taking a Fresh Look at The Story of Civilization by Will and Ariel Durant
• Making Sense of the Internet Business Environment, a review of 'The Great Disruption' by Francis Fukuyama

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