reviews i've written

These days I write about books for the Philadelphia Inquirer and BookPage, a monthly book review newspaper distributed to subscribing libraries and bookstores nationwide. Pick it up at your library, it's free! I also write about comics and graphic novels for The Comics Journal and the Santa Barbara News-Press. To follow my reviews as they come out please read my blog. Here's a handful of older ones.


book reviews: young adult

For several years now I have written book reviews for the Philadelphia Inquirer, including a biweekly column on young adult books for the Sunday Inquirer. Here are a few of those reviews.

Eldest, by Christopher Paolini (Random House)

Maya Running, by Anjali Banerjee (Wendy Lamb Books)

Not The End of The World, by Geraldine McCaughrean (HarperTempest)

Prom, by Laurie Halse Anderson (Viking)

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, by Kate Douglas Wiggin (Penguin Classics)

Thieves Like Us, by Stephen Cole (Boomsbury)

William Blake: The Gates of Paradise, by Michael Bedard (Tundra Books)

A Swift Pure Cry, by Siobhan Dowd (David Fickling Books)

What They Found: Love on 145th Street, by Walter Dean Myers (Wendy Lamb)


book reviews: everything else.

I write about other kinds of books too. Here's a selection of reviews that were published in the book section of the Philadelphia Inquirer and, after that, reprinted in a number of other papers across the country.

Identity Club, short stories by Richard Burgin (Ontario Review Press)

Far From The Madding Gerund, the book version of the linguistics blog Language Log, by Mark Liberman and Geoffrey K. Pullum (William, James & Co.)

Lover of Unreason: Assia Wevill, Sylvia Plath's Rival and Ted Hughes's Doomed Love, a biography by Yehuda Koren and Eliat Negev (Carroll & Graf)

Some Fun, short stories by Antonya Nelson (Scribner)

Area Code 212: New York Days, New York Nights, essays by Tama Janowitz (St. Martin's Press)

The Hanging in the Foal Barn, short stories by Susan Starr Richards (Sarabande)

Visigoth, short stories by Gary Amdahl (Milkweed)

Domestic Violence, poems by Eavan Boland (Norton)

Not To: New and Selected Poems, by Elaine Terranova (Sheep Meadow Press)