The New Criterion

Author

Max Watman

Articles

Worth doing badly (Books) , May 2007, 69
On Martin Amis's House of Meetings.

Pynchon's progress (Books) , February 2007, 69
On Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day.

Severe manners (Fiction Chronicle) , November 2006, 59
Reviews of "The View from Castle Rock: Stories," by Alice Munro; "Talk Talk," by T.C. Boyle; and "Special Topics in Calamity Physics," by Marisha Pessl.

The ever-present human hint of yellow (Fiction Chronicle) , May 2006, 58
On novels from across the pond.

Too much of nothing (Fiction Chronicle) , November 2005, 56
Max Watman on contemporary fiction.

Befuddled & obsolete () , August 2005
A review of No Country for Old Men, by Cormac McCarthy.

Ignorant armies clash by night (Fiction Chronicle) , May 2005, 61
A review of Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro; A Changed Man, by Francine Prose; American Purgatorio, by John Haskell; Saturday, by Ian McEwan; & Winslow in Love, by Kevin Canty.

Worse yet, real life (Fiction Chronicle) , November 2004, 54
A review of Villages, by John Updike; The Plot Against America, by Philip Roth; Oblivion: Stories, by David Foster Wallace; & Heir to the Glimmering World, by Cynthia Ozick.

Not to comment, but to illustrate (Fiction Chronicle) , May 2004, 58
A review of The Confessions of Max Tivoli, by Andrew Sean Greer; The Dew Breaker, by Edwidge Danticat; Bandbox: A Novel, by Thomas Mallon; Little Children: A Novel, by Tom Perrotta; I Dream of Microwaves, by Imad Rahman & I Sailed with Magellan, by Stuart Dybeck.

Tickling your catastrophe (Fiction Chronicle) , November 2003, 59
A review of Yellow Dog, by Martin Amis; And Now You Can Go, by Vendela Vida; The Effect of Living Backwards, by Heidi Julavits; The Furies, by Fernanda Eberstadt & The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem.

Beach reading with Max (Features) , July 2003
On four novels that offer more than raised gold lettering.

A safe preserve for sport (Fiction Chronicle) , May 2003, 63
A review of The Interpreter, by Suki Kim; Cosmopolis, by Don DeLillo; The Time of Our Singing, by Richard Powers; The Commissariat of Enlightenment, by Ken Kalfus & The Hazards of Good Breeding, by Jessica Shattuck.

Flamboyantly humble (Books) , December 2002, 93
A review of You Shall Know Our Velocity, by Dave Eggers.

Suffer the children (Fiction Chronicle) , November 2002, 65
A review of Middlesex, by Jeffrey Eugenides; The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold; Prague, by Arthur Phillips; Twelve: A Novel, by Nick McDonell; The Little Friend, by Donna Tartt & Summerland, by Michael Chabon.

Guileless games (Fiction Chronicle) , May 2002, 66
A review of Spies, by Michael Frayn; A Multitude of Sins, by Richard Ford; The Dive From Clausen’s Pier, by Ann Packer; Everything is Illuminated, by Jonathan Safran Foer & Roscoe, by William Kennedy.

On the hysterical playground (Fiction Chronicle) , November 2001, 67
A review of The Corrections, by Jonathan Franzen; After the Plague and Other Stories, by T. C. Boyle; Up in the Air, by Walter Kirn; John Henry Days, by Colson Whitehead; The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, by Michael Chabon & Pafko at the Wall, by Don DeLillo.

Shorter notice (Books) , February 2001, 76
Max Watman on Demonology, by Rick Moody.

Shorter notice (Books) , April 2000, 82
Review of Vassily Aksyonov's The New Sweet Style.