Sarah Kerr
Sarah Kerr, a longtime contributor to The New York Review, lives near Washington, D.C. (May 2008)
From the Review
May 15, 2008: Displaced Passions
Unaccustomed Earth by Jhumpa Lahiri
December 6, 2007: Nathan, Farewell
Exit Ghost by Philip Roth
October 11, 2007: In the Terror House of Mirrors
The Unknown Terrorist by Richard Flanagan
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
April 26, 2007: The Unclosed Circle
We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction by Joan Didion, with an introduction by John Leonard
November 16, 2006: The Girl in the Woods
The Uses of Enchantment by Heidi Julavits
August 10, 2006: Burdens of Inheritance
Theft: A Love Story by Peter Carey
May 27, 2004: Memories of Underdevelopment
Dancing with Cuba: A Memoir of the Revolution by Alma Guillermoprieto,translated from the Spanish by Esther Allen
September 24, 1998: Small Expectations
Man or Mango?: A Lament by Lucy Ellmann
February 20, 1997: Working Girl
Evita a film directed by Alan Parker, with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by Tim Rice
The Making of Evita by Alan Parker, with an introduction by Madonna
Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez, translated by Helen Lane
Eva Perón by Alicia Dujovne Ortiz, translated by Shawn Fields
Evita: In My Own Words translated by Laura Dail
February 1, 1996: Tender Buttons
After All by Mary Tyler Moore
August 10, 1995: The Confidence Men
April 6, 1995: Rain Man
Pulp Fiction a film by Quentin Tarantino
November 17, 1994: The Mystery of Mexican Politics
April 7, 1994: Amplifying 'The Piano' (letter)
February 3, 1994: Shoot the Piano Player
The Piano a film directed by Jane Campion, produced by Jane Campion
The Piano screenplay of the film by Jane Campion
December 16, 1993: A Tale of Two Cities
Mexican Americans: The Ambivalent Minority by Peter Skerry
June 24, 1993: Made in America
Latinos: A Biography of the People by Earl Shorris
October 8, 1992: Shock Treatment
The Family of Pascual Duarte by Camilo José Cela, translated by Anthony Kerrigan
Journey to the Alcarria: Travels Through the Spanish Countryside by Camilo José Cela, translated by Frances M. López-Morillas
The Hive by Camilo José Cela, translated by J.M. Cohen
San Camilo, 1936 by Camilo José Cela, translated by John H.R. Polt
Mrs. Caldwell Speaks to Her Son by Camilo José Cela, translated by J.S. Bernstein
June 25, 1992: Fujimori's Plot: An Interview with Gustavo Gorriti