BROWSE BOOK REVIEWS

Celebrating NYC (page 2)

NONFICTION

Released: Aug. 1, 1996

SEX AND THE CITY

by Candace Bushnell

Fascinating and haunting insights into the love lives of the rich and randy in New York. Read full book review >

Cover art for SHOPAHOLIC TAKES MANHATTAN

FICTION

Released: Feb. 4, 2002

SHOPAHOLIC TAKES MANHATTAN

by Sophie Kinsella

"Lackluster."

Rebecca Bloomwood is back, and she still owes everybody money: a rehash of the much funnier Confessions of a Shopaholic (2001). Read full book review >

NONFICTION

Released: Sept. 9, 1998

THE KGB BAR READER

edited by Ken Foster

"A round from one of New York's newest literary lions' dens."

Short stories and essays, original publications, reprints; and selections from the KGB reading series itself all belly up to the literary bar in this anthology. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: Aug. 5, 2008

SCHOOLED

by Anisha Lakhani

"A fun read that could use more snap."

A young Manhattan teacher falls in love with all the glitz that other people's money can buy in this debut novel from Lakhani, a one-time teacher at an elite Upper East Side school. Read full book review >

FICTION

Released: April 1, 2001

THE DIVE FROM CLAUSEN’S PIER

by Ann Packer

"Lucid prose limns complicated people whose dilemmas illuminate crucial moral choices, large and small. Very fine fiction indeed."

From short-story author Packer (Mendocino, 1994), a reflective and probing first novel about a young woman reassessing her life after her fiancé is crippled. Read full book review >

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