Harvard Book Review

Volume 8, Number 1: Summer 2006

Fiction and Poetry

CAPACITY by James McMichael
Reviewed by Marta Figlerowicz

DANIEL ISN'T TALKING by Marti Leimbach
Reviewed by Hezekiah Smith

DISTRICT AND CIRCLE by Seamus Heaney
Reviewed by Henry Walters

L'AMERICA by Martha McPhee
Reviewed by Calina Ciobanu

MAN OF MY DREAMS by Curtis Sittenfield
Reviewed by Natalie Sherman

SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS by Marisha Pessl
Reviewed by Edward Su

SUITE FRANCAISE by Irene Nemirovsky
Reviewed by Alexander Bevilacqua

WAR AND WAR by Laszlo Krasznahorkai
Reviewed by Matt Spellberg

WHITEMAN by Tony D'Souza
Reviewed by Catherine Tung

TRISTRAM SHANDY
An essay by Laura Kolbe

SUMMER POSTCARDS
Short reviews by HBR Staff

Non-Fiction

CONUNDRUM by Jan Morris
Reviewed by Cara Eisenpress

GLOBAL COLD WAR by Odd Arne Westad
Reviewed by Noah Hertz-Bunzl

HOW TO READ DERRIDA by Penelope Deutscher
Reviewed by Tony Domestico

WRITTEN LIVES and VOYAGE ALONG THE HORIZON, by Javier Marias
Reviewed by Laura Kolbe

ON LATE STYLE by Edward Said
Reviewed by Joshua Billings

LET ME FINISH by Roger Angell
Reviewed by Samuel Jacobs

NATURE EXPOSED by Jennifer Tucker
Reviewed by Nitin Ahuja

PERVERSITY AND ETHICS by William Egginston
Reviewed by Richard Solash

RAMBLIN MAN: The Life and Times of Woody Guthrie, by Ed Cray
Reviewed by Sara Kate Heukerott

THE SCENT OF GOD by Beryl Bissel
Reviewed by Liz Goodwin

UNCOMMON CARRIERS by John McPhee
Reviewed by Sara Kate Heukerott

THE RISE OF VIAGRA by Meika Loe
STRIPPED by Bernadette Barton
Reviewed by Nancy Yang

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