Sunday, September 03, 2006

Today's Inquirer reviews ...

... are, in my obviously biased view, a pretty impressive bunch.

To begin with, though, Carlin Romano offers a distinctly personal appreciation of Naguib Mafouz: Mahfouz: A universal voice in the Arab world.

Carlin also notes, in an essay for Arts & Entertainment, that Obstacles abound for the 9/11 novel.

Next, Susan Balee takes a look at Philly fiction: Where there's pain, there's good fiction.

John Freeman discovers that a little of Jonathan Franzen's discomfort goes a long way: Writer's lifelong struggle with guilt.

Tim Worstall makes his Inquirer debut with a look at another way of looking at the world: Looking at world through shape of a 'J'.

And Vikram Johri makes his American debut with a provocative review of Michael Barone's updated edition of The New Americans: On the multicultural fallacy.

Dorothy Lehman Hoerr likes Marie Arana's debut: Cellophane in the Amazon? Clearly a winner .
And Katie Haegele is much taken with Cecil Castellucci's Boy Proof: Young Adult Reader Egg breaks out of her sci-fi shell and learns just to be herself.

Last week, besides those linked to already here, we ran Theopolis Fair's review of Waiting for the Midnight Hour: Giving black power its due in American and world history

and Elizabeth Fox's review of Stephanie Bond's Body Movers: Book Review Men, family, money troubles, sealed with a big pink kiss.

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