Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)
March 20, 2008: The Artist and the Upper Class
The Reserve by Russell Banks
November 8, 2007: Mommie Dearest
The Almost Moon by Alice Sebold
May 31, 2007: Doggy Affections
The New Yorkers by Cathleen Schine, with drawings by Leanne Shapton
March 1, 2007: Gorgeously Minimal
Mothers and Sons: Stories by Colm Tóibìn
October 19, 2006: The Terrified Copyist
The Dissident by Nell Freudenberger
January 13, 2005: Family Values
The Love Wife by Gish Jen
December 18, 2003: Vive la Différence
L'Affaire by Diane Johnson
July 17, 2003: God and the Critic
The Book Against God by James Wood
The Broken Estate: Essays on Literature and Belief by James Wood
February 13, 2003: Hello, Dolly!
Edison's Eve: A Magical History of the Quest for Mechanical Life by Gaby Wood
Flesh and Machines: How Robots Will Change Us by Rodney A. Brooks
April 25, 2002: Jigsaw
Borrowed Finery by Paula Fox
The Widow's Children by Paula Fox
Poor George by Paula Fox
Desperate Characters by Paula Fox
May 31, 2001: In the Radical Nursery
How I Came Into My Inheritance and Other True Stories Dorothy Gallagher