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A Condor's Fire: a novel

At the time of publication, the New York Times Book Review decried the novel as a “bizarrely contrived piece of literature, whose attempt, though valiant, at channeling the epiphanic style of Joyce, and the magical-realism of Garcia Marquez, is ultimately unconvincing”.

The Classical Journal

In May 2007, The Classical Journal began delivering online-exclusive book reviews, professional announcements, and supplemental material through the University of Minnesota's LISTSERV.

Walter D. O'Hearn

A versatile writer and editor, he wrote book reviews for The New York Times, did analytical reporting from the United Nations and produced whimsical pieces about two denizens of Montreal's Point St. Charles – Mrs. Harrigan and Mrs. Mulcahy – discussing the vital issues of the day, which were published in the Montreal Star and later issued in book form.


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A Mind of Its Own: A Cultural History of the Penis

A book review in the Journal of the History of Sexuality describes the book as "high journalism" – neither based on history nor culture in an acceptable manner.

Agi Mishol

In his New York Times book review of Look There (2006), Joel Brouwer wrote: "Mishol... takes up political subjects with a sly delicacy reminiscent of the Polish poet Wislawa Szymborska’s best work".

Austrian Studies Association

As of 2012, its editors are Todd Herzog (University of Cincinnati) and Hillary Hope Herzog (University of Kentucky); book review editor is Joseph W. Moser (Randolph-Macon College), and the editorial board includes prominent Austrianists and Germanists from the U.S., UK, Canada, Austria, and Germany representing a variety of area studies.

Bend Over Boyfriend

(September 11, 2005) Los Angeles Times Porn is bad for society and bad for you. Right? Pornified How Pornography Is Transforming Our Lives, Our Relationships, and Our Families Pamela Paul Times Books: 306 pp., $25. Section: Book Review; Page 4.

Bernhard Seliger

Bernhard Seliger is the book review editor of North Korean Review and a representative of the Hanns Seidel Foundation branch in Seoul, South Korea.

Briton C. Busch

In addition, he was a member of council of the International Commission for Maritime History, 1996 to 2000, and served as Book Review editor of the country's leading scholary journal for maritime history in the United States, The American Neptune, from 1991 to 2003.

Charles J. Shields

“This biography will not disappoint those who loved the novel and the feisty, independent, fiercely loyal Scout, in whom Harper Lee put so much of herself,” wrote Garrison Keillor in the New York Times Sunday Book Review.

David McCooey

He is Personal Chair in Literary Studies and Professional & Creative Writing at Deakin University in Geelong and regularly writes reviews for Australian Book Review and The Age.

David Runciman

After a book review in The Guardian of Antifragility by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, that author referred to Runciman as the "second most stupid reviewer" of his works, from more than 1,000 reviewers.

Douglas Century

The New York Times Book Review saw the book as the embodiment of "hip-hop's Horatio Alger" myth: “Ice-T, in short, is someone hip-hop might have invented if he hadn’t invented himself," reviewer Baz Dreisinger wrote. "A goes-down-easy mélange of memoir, self-help, and amateur criminology. Ultimately, Ice showcases an eminently reasonable, positively likeable guy, the gangsta rapper even a parent could love.”

Eduardo Galeano

In New York Times Book Review Jay Parini praised as perhaps his most daring work The Book of Embraces (El libro de los abrazos), a collection of short, often lyrical stories presenting Galeano's views on emotion, art, politics, and values, as well as offering a scathing critique of modern capitalistic society and views on an ideal society and mindset.

Freddy the Pig

Adam Hochschild, writing in The New York Times Book Review, describes the series as "the moral center of my childhood universe."

Jewish English Bible translations

It has since been published and widely reviewed in literary journals, including The New York Times Book Review by Frank Kermode and TLS in London.

John L. Watson

Watson has a regular book review column at The Week in Chess, the publication of the London Chess Centre (available online).

Kurtis Schaeffer

He has been Book Review Editor for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion from 2006 to the present, as well as for the Journal of the International Association for Tibetan Studies from 2005 to date.

Marie Arana

For more than a decade she was the editor in chief of "Book World", the book review section of The Washington Post, during which time she instituted the partnership of The Washington Post with the White House (First Lady Laura Bush) and the Library of Congress (Dr. James H. Billington, Librarian of Congress) in hosting the annual National Book Festival on the Washington Mall.

Marion K. Sanders

Under the name Marion Klein she was a free lance feature writer for a small news syndicate, as a stringer for The Toronto Star, which published several pieces (November 1925), reviewed books for The Book Review (March 1926), performed minor editorial chores for the Theater Guild Quarterly for which she also wrote a piece (April 1926), wrote several piece for the Chicago Journal under the byline Marionette (May 29, 1926, June 9, 13, 20 and 27,1926).

Mark Jay Mirsky

Mirsky has also edited, and wrote the introduction for, Diaries: Robert Musil 1899-1942, and published several works and articles in The Partisan Review, New Directions Annual, The Boston Sunday Globe, and The New York Times Book Review.

Michael P. Howlett

He was editor of the POLCAN listserver (1995–1997) and English language co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2002–2006) and is currently administrative editor of the Canadian Political Science Review (2007–2010), and co-editor of the World Political Science Review, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (Book Review Editor 2001-2006), and the University of Toronto Press Series in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy.

Micheal O'Siadhail

Mary O'Donnell traced the influence of the philosopher Emmanuel Levinas in A Fragile City and the academic and critic Eugene O'Brien, editor of The Irish Book Review, described his work as "that rare combination of the intellectual and the emotional".

Omar Cabezas

O'Conner, Patricia. T. The New York Times: Book Review of Fire From the Mountain, Volume 91: July 13 '86, p.

Patricia Craddock

She also served on the editorial boards of South Atlantic Review (1996–98), The Age of Johnson: A Scholarly Annual (1992–present), and the Georgia Smollett edition (1997–present) and is English Book Review editor of The Eighteenth Century: A Current Bibliography.

Reeling

The book is largely composed of movie reviews, ranging from her famous review of Last Tango in Paris to A Woman Under the Influence, but it also contains a longer essay entitled "On the Future of Movies" as well as a book review of The Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers Book, by fellow The New Yorker dance critic Arlene Croce.

Richard Tillinghast

For twenty years he reviewed new poetry for the New York Times Book Review and has also written frequently for The Irish Times.

Robert Vasquez

Vasquez's poetry has been published in various journals including The Los Angeles Times Book Review, The Missouri Review, The New England Review, The Notre Dame Review, Parnassas: Poetry in Review, Ploughshares, VerseDaily.com, and The Village Voice.

Roderick Sprague

Sprague served many roles in the Society for Historical Archaeology: on the Board of Directors from 1970–71, secretary-treasurer from 1971–1974, member of the Editorial Advisory Board since 1977, Book Review Editor from 1977 to 1997, Archivist from 1987 to 1998, as President in 1976 and 1990 and as Parliamentarian from 1984 to 2008.

Ron Charles

Before joining the Post in 2005, Charles was the book review editor and staff critic for seven years at The Christian Science Monitor.

Sandra Tsing Loh

In reviewing Loh's 2008 book Mother on Fire for the New York Times Sunday Book Review, Pamela Paul wrote that she "was in awe of Loh's quippy brilliance" and that Loh's writing ability "is no less than a feat of genius".

Sunflower Splendor: Three Thousand Years of Chinese Poetry

David Lattimore wrote a review of this book for The New York Times Sunday Book Review Supplement.

The Rabbi's Wife

At the time of its release, the book was reviewed in such publications as The Spectator, British Book News, and The Library Journal Book Review.

Two English Girls

The novel was available in its first English translation as of January 2004, translated by Walter Bruno, published by Cambridge Book Review Press, Cambridge, WI.

Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy

According to a New York Times book review by Christopher Duggan of Reading University, the book is well researched, though Zuccotti follows the anti-Pius XII tone of Hitler's Pope by John Cornwell, and builds a case for the Pope having been anti-Semitic at heart - a view which, according to Duggan, available evidence "does not warrant".

Wanda Coleman

While critically acclaimed for her creative writing, Coleman's greatest notoriety came as a result of an unfavorable review she wrote in the April 14, 2002 edition of The Los Angeles Times Book Review of Maya Angelou's book, A Song Flung Up to Heaven.