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  1. T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “The Tortilla Curtain”  •  October 18, 1995
    This book review was originally published on Critics’ Choice on October 18, 1995. Through the course of five novels and four short story collections, T. Coraghessan Boyle has proven himself an extraordinary (if erratic) satirist. His disdain for the politically correct and his peculiar sense of humor have propelled some spectacular successes (The Road to Wellville [...]
  2. T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “Without a Hero”  •  June 1, 1994
    T. Coraghessan Boyle is a good novel writer who's certainly proven that he can work wonders when he sets his mind to it, but his short stories are a completely hit-or-miss affair. "Without a Hero" sits alongside Boyle's other works as an exercise in unkempt imagination desperately in need of discipline.
  3. T. Coraghessan Boyle’s “The Road to Wellville”  •  July 19, 1993
    This book review was originally published in the Baltimore Evening Sun on July 19, 1993. Any doctor that prescribed five enemas a day, sexual abstinence, and high doses of radium exposure for an ulcer would be kicked out of town before sunset. Unless, of course, that doctor was Dr. John Harvey Kellogg and that town was Battle [...]