Eclectica Book Reviews

A Mapmaker's Dream -- James Cowan

Frequent reviewer Ann Skea returns with a new revew of a book impossible to categorize...

Fiction

The Writer's Trade: Stories -- Nicholas Delbanco

One of your hardy editors does a retro-review of one of Delbanco's best books. Chris Lott.

Poetry

The Empty Bed -- Rachel Hadas

Hadas, author of Living in Time and others, produces another great book. Chris Lott

Straight Out of View -- Joyce Sutphen

First book by Joyce Sutphen, winner of the 1994 Barnard New Woman Poet's Prize. Chris Lott

Nonfiction

Bad Land -- Jonathan Raban

Jonathan Raban's latest literary travel book is reviewed by Ann Skea.

Politics

Taking the Risk Out of Democracy -- Alex Carey

Dale Wharton returns with another precise review of a new book about Democracy in America and elsewhere.