Daniel Asa Rose

Novelist Needs Room to Grow-Out of Her Reliance on Gimmicks

The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss. W.W. Norton, 252 pages, $23.95.There was a little girl,  read more »

Gimlet-Eyed Girl Grows Up; Preppies Poked and Prodded

Prep , by Curtis Sittenfeld. Random House, 406 pages, $21.95. Yo, prep-school papa!  read more »

Old West and New Collide Amid Cowpoke McMansions

Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2, by Annie Proulx. Scribner, 219 pages, $25.  read more »

Skittish Homage to Ozick: The Little Lady Packs a Punch

Heir to the Glimmering World , by Cynthia Ozick. Houghton Mifflin, 310 pages, $24.  read more »

Poet-Journalist's Assignment: Rhapsodizing the Heart Beat

A Man After His Own Heart , by Charles Siebert. Crown, 288 pages, $23.95.  read more »

Ripped From the Headlines, A Sad, True Novel About Haiti

The Dew Breaker , by Edwidge Danticat. Alfred A. Knopf, 244 pages, $22.  read more »

Book Review

Ripped From the Headlines,A Sad, True Novel About Haiti  read more »