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MARCH 22, 2005
The dog-eat-dog metaphor, borrowed perhaps from the film Amores Perros, provides a brutal, tender new way for Pelecanos to... Full review >
MARCH 9, 2004
The most conventionally ambitious of Pelecanos’s sprawling studies of D.C. crime: pat in its sociological determinism,... Full review >
FEB. 27, 2002
Despite all the scenes illustrating the hopelessness of growing up in the nation’s capital, the author’s ardent muckraking... Full review >
AUG. 8, 2006
The best American comparison, in fact, is James Lee Burke, who also keeps writing the same churning book over and over and... Full review >
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Redemption the hard way, well-crafted and deeply felt. Full review >
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