John Leonard

Book critic John Leonard reviews The Year of the Barricades: A Journey Through 1968 by the English journalist and historian David Caute.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Woodcutters, a novel by the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Mothers of Invention, a book about the the unrecognized role women had in the technological breakthroughs of the modern era. The authors are Ethlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Downriver by Loren D. Estleman, the new mystery novel, the eighth in a series, featuring Amos Walker.

Book critic John Leonard reviews a collection of essays by Primo Levi.

Book Critic John Leonard reviews The Western Lands, the new novel by William Burroughs, author of Naked Lunch and Nova Express.

Book Critic John Leonard reviews 2061, the latest science fiction novel from Arthur C. Clarke.

Book Critic John Leonard reviews Chile: Death in the South by Jacobo Timmerman. Timmerman is the former Argentine journalist who was imprisoned for publishing the names of the people who disappeared at the hands of Argentina's dictatorship in the mid-70s. His account of his ordeal was titled Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number.

Book Critic John Leonard reviews The Redemption of Elsdon Bird, a first novel by Noel Virtue.

Book Critic John Leonard reviews "Perfect Gallows," a mystery by Peter Dickinson.