John Leonard

Book critic John Leonard reviews Anthills of the Savannah, a novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.
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Book critic John Leonard reviews baseball writer Roger Angell's latest collection of essays, Season Ticket. The essays, which previously appeared in The New Yorker magazine, cover the five seasons of play between 1981 and 1986.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Rachel and Her Children, by Jonathan Kozol, which examines the plight of the homeless in New York City's welfare hotels.

Book critic John Leonard reviews S, the new novel by John Updike. The novel is a modern story that draws from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter.

Book Critic John Leonard reviews The Fifth Child, the new novel by Doris Lessing.

Book Critic John Leonard reviews two new biographies of Roy Cohn, the counsel for the Senate committee conducting the McCarthy trials, and McCarthy's aide and confidante.

Book critic John Leonard reviews The Ark Sakura, a new novel by Japanese writer Kobo Abe (Koe-boe Ah-bay). Abe's other books include The Woman in the Dunes and The Ruined Map. The Ark Sakura is a surreal vision of contemporary social and environmental problems.

Book critic John Leonard reviews The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, the first novel by Michael Chabon.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Love in the Time of Cholera, the new novel from Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Getting Better: Inside Alcoholics Anonymous, by Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Nan Robertson.