Jennifer Schuessler

Jennifer Schuessler is on the staff of The New York Times Book Review. (March 2008)

From the Review

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