Book Reviews
There are countless reviews of books, music, films, and theatrical productions spread throughout the author pages of the Modern Word; but some book reviews have been especially written for Spiral-Bound, have a greater depth or complexity than normal, or have been published elsewhere as featured reviews. This page will archive those reviews, some of which may not be found on individual author pages. If you are looking for a specific book or music review related to a Libyrinth author, please refer to the Site Map and select the appropriate section for the related author: Works, Criticism, Music, Film, etc. Reviews of short fiction, anthologies, and zines may be found at the Sideshow.

Selected Recent Reviews

Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon	The Road by Cormac McCarthy	H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life by Michel Houellebecq

Oulipo Compendium by Harry Matthews & Alastair Brotchie, eds.	New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel	Frost by Thomas Bernhard

Fiction

Auster, Paul
Oracle Night

Banville, John
Shroud

Barth, John
Coming Soon!!!

Barth, John
The Book of Ten Nights and a Night

Thomas Bernhard
Frost

Brandeis, Gayle
The Book of Dead Birds

Brock, Geoffrey
Weighing Light: Poems

Byatt, A.S.
A Whistling Woman

Carey, Peter
My Life as a Fake

Carson, Tom
Gilligan's Wake

Cave, Nick
And the Ass Saw the Angel

Cervantes, Miguel de
Don Quixote

Danielewski, Mark Z.
House of Leaves.

Deb, Siddhartha.
The Point of Return

DeLillo, Don
Cosmopolis

Dick, Philip K.
Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick

Eco, Umberto
Baudolino

Esterházy, Péter
Celestial Harmonies

Gaddis, William
Agapé Agape

Haddon, Mark
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Houllebecq, Michel
H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

Hughes, Rhys
A New Universal History of Infamy

Joyce, James
Dubliners (Harper Audio)

Kelman, James
Translated Accounts

Kelman, James
You Have to Be Careful in the Land of the Free

Kinney, Martha
Fall of the Heartless Horse

Kitchen, Judith
The House on Eccles Road

Knipfel, Jim
The Buzzing

Mathews, Harry & Alastair Brotchie
Oulipo Compendium

McCarthy, Cormac
The Road

Montero, Mayra
Deep Purple

Moore, Alan
Voice of the Fire

Pynchon, Thomas
Against the Day

Roussel, Raymond
New Impressions of Africa

Saramago, José
The Cave

Smith, Zadie
The Autograph Man

Stephenson, Neal
Cryptonomicon

VanderMeer, Jeff
City of Saints and Madmen

Vargas Llosa, Mario
The Feast of the Goat

Walcott, Derek
The Prodigal: A Poem

Wallace, David Foster
Oblivion

Weiss, D.B.
Lucky Wander Boy

West, A.B.
Wakenight Emporium

Graphic Novels

Moore, Alan & José Villarrubia
The Mirror of Love

Thompson, Craig
Blankets

Anthologies

Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases

Nonfiction

Borges, J.L.
This Craft of Verse

Conley, Tim
Joyces Mistakes

Corngold, Stanley
Lambent Traces

Theater

James Joyce's The Dead

Film

Mulholland Drive

Art

Smith, Zak
Pictures of Girls