John Leonard

Book critic John Leonard reviews "Moorish Spain," by British scholar Richard Fletcher, about the often violent culture clash in Medieval times.

Book critic John Leonard reviews Marguerite Duras' novel "North China Lover," a more explicit version of her earlier novel "The Lover," which has been made into a movie.

Book critic John Leonard reviews the new literary biography by Carol Brightman, which weaves together an exhaustive amount of material collected up to the day of McCarthy's death.

Book critic John Leonard reviews the new novel "The Call of the Toad," which explores the idea of homelands in postwar Europe.

Book critic John Leonard considers the vital role book translators have on literature on the occasion of the death of translator Ralph Manheim.

John Leonard reviews "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors," the new book by husband-and-wife team Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan, about the origin of life on our planet, and the similarity between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "African Laughter," Lessing's memoir of the four times she visited the country of her birth--now called Zimbabwe--and her impressions of its changing social and political climate.

John Leonard reviews Ellroy's "White Jazz," the final installment of his tetralogy of crime novels. The story reveals the darkest elements of Los Angeles life in the 1950s.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "The Secret History," by Donna Tart. She's associated with the young crop of writers from Bennington, including Bret Easton Ellis, to whom her novel is dedicated.

Book critic John Leonard reviews "When Nietzsche Wept," which he says is both high-minded and deeply entertaining with its use of real historical figures.