John Leonard

John Leonard writes on books every month for Harper’s and on television every week for New York magazine. (June 2007)

From the Review

June 14, 2007: Meshuga Alaska

The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon

February 15, 2007: A Feast of Shadows

Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties by Robert Stone

November 30, 2006: The Adventures of Doris Lessing

Time Bites: Views and Reviews by Doris Lessing

The Story of General Dann and Mara's Daughter, Griot and the Snow Dog by Doris Lessing

February 9, 2006: In the Desert, Prime Time

The Diviners by Rick Moody

October 20, 2005: The Black Album

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

April 7, 2005: Welcome to New Dork

Men and Cartoons by Jonathan Lethem

The Disappointment Artist by Jonathan Lethem

The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan Lethem

June 10, 2004: The Prophet

Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow

Reporting the Universe by E.L. Doctorow

Three Screenplays by E.L. Doctorow, with an introduction, commentaries, and interviews by Paul Levine

March 13, 2003: Don Quixote at Eighty

The Spooky Art: Some Thoughts on Writing by Norman Mailer

February 14, 2002: King of High & Low

Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub

Dreamcatcher by Stephen King

Stephen King's Rose Red by Stephen King

The Essential Stephen King by Stephen J. Spignesi

October 4, 2001: Puppet Show

Fury by Salman Rushdie

September 20, 2001: Nuclear Fission

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

July 19, 2001: Liaisons Dangereuses

Positively 4th Street:The Life and Times of Joan Baez, Bob Dylan, Mimi Baez Fariña,and Richard Fariña by David Hajdu

Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard Sounes

February 22, 2001: The Hunger Artist

The Body Artist by Don DeLillo

February 8, 2001: Cri de Coeur

Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future by Jason Epstein

January 11, 2001: Mind Painting

Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers

July 20, 2000: The Wise Woman and the Whale

Herman Melville by Elizabeth Hardwick

June 29, 2000: Poor Papa (letter)

June 15, 2000: A Child of the Age

The Human Stain by Philip Roth

May 28, 1998: TV: The Mummy's Curse

Made Possible By…The Death of Public Broadcasting in the United States by James Ledbetter

Public Television: Politics and the Battle over Documentary Film by B.J. Bullert

May 31, 1984: Stories of Malamud (letter)

January 19, 1984: The Shaman and the Schlemiel

The Stories of Bernard Malamud by Bernard Malamud

October 25, 1979: Fathers and Ghosts

The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth

Books by John Leonard

Lonesome Rangers: Homeless Minds, Promised Lands, Fugitive Cultures (2002)