On Motherhood and Feminism By Anne Roiphe (Nonfiction)
Houghton Mifflin, reviewed by Sally Eckhoff
A memoir about motherhood and feminism from a writer who argues that the women's movement continues to sell mothers out.

Slouching Towards Gomorrah: Modern Liberalism and American Decline By Robert H. Bork (Nonfiction)
HarperCollins, reviewed by David Futrelle
Bombast and moralizing on the depravity of American pop culture from the judge who didn't make it to the Supreme Court.

The Laws of Our Fathers By Scott Turow (Fiction)
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, reviewed by Robert Spillman
Turow proves himself the thinking reader's thriller author with this saga of 1960's ideals examined in a sinister modern-day court case.

The Law of Love By Laura Esquivel (Fiction)
Crown, reviewed by A. Scott Cardwell
In this new novel by the author of "Like Water for Chocolate," an astroanalyst seeks her "Twin Soul" across time and space.

Good Evening Mr. and Mrs. America and All the Ships at Sea By Richard Bausch (Fiction)
HarperCollins, reviewed by Katherine Whittamore
A young broadcast journalist in 1964 meets mobsters, black civil rights fighters, white rioters -- and gets tipped-off on JFK liaison.

Graceland: Going Home with Elvis By Karal Ann Marling (Nonfiction)
Harvard University Press, reviewed by Stephanie Zacharek
An elegiac, heartfelt book about Presley's place in American culture, and the places -- Las Vegas, Hollywood, Memphis --where he touched down.

Indian Killer By Sherman Alexie (Fiction)
Grove/Atlantic, reviewed by Robert Spillman
A dark literary thriller, set in Seattle, about an American Indian -- raised by white parents -- who seeks revenge against the world.

Unnatural Disasters: Recent Writings from the Golden State Edited by Nicole Panter (Nonfiction)
Incommunicado Press, reviewed by Paul Tullis
A wide-ranging collection of Los Angeles fiction and nonfiction that rises above Angeleno cliches about models and screenwriters.

The Erotic in Sports By Allen Guttman (Nonfiction)
Columbia University Press, reviewed by Charles Taylor
The author, a professor at Amherst, examines the pervasive, but rarely mentioned, sexual element in male and female sports.

The Hottest State by Ethan Hawke (Fiction)
Little, Brown, reviewed by Mary Elizabeth Williams
A tale of romance among the young, the angry and the artsy by the popular actor.

Michael Chabon: The Swimmer, by John Cheever

Jeffrey Eugenides: The Portrait of a Lady, by Henry James

Mary Gaitskill: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, by Victor Hugo

Dwight Garner: On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

Denis Johnson: Fat City, by Leonard Gardner

Cynthia Joyce: Mating, by Norman Rush

Gary Kamiya: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain

Mignon Khargie: The Edge of Day, by Laurie Lee

John Le Carré: Right Ho, Jeeves, by P.G. Wodehouse

Laura Miller: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, by C.S. Lewis

Joyce Millman: The Silence of the Lambs, by Thomas Harris

Joyce Carol Oates: Alice in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

Reynolds Price: A Flag for Sunrise, by Robert Stone

Andrew Ross: The Castle, by Franz Kafka

Scott Rosenberg: The Lord of the Rings, by J.R.R. Tolkien

Ian Shoales: The Circus of Dr. Lao, by Charles Finney

Joan Smith: The Sound and the Fury, by William Faulkner

Amy Tan: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

Mary Elizabeth Williams: Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov

Cintra Wilson: A Prayer for Owen Meaney, by John Irving

Word By Word: Anne Lamott's online diary
When your friends' child falls seriously ill, it takes a village to help.

Servant of the Bones Diary By Anne Rice
Why the media hates pretty boy Bill Clinton.
Plus: Rice answers readers' questions.

Harry Shearer's Fifth Column
With liberty and cheap coke for all: When the contras are the modern equivalent of America's founding fathers, paranoia strikes deep.

The Listress By Amy Wallace
When inspiration struck: a famous invention quiz from our trivia maven. The first to submit the correct answers wins a $25 gift certificate to Borders Books & Music.

Unzipped By Courtney Weaver
Girls will be boys: Does wanting a "loose" commitment make you a man?

Horrible, beautiful By David Fenton
"From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah" doesn't lay Nirvana to rest -- it springs them, live and electric, from the tomb.
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