New York Times. Includes brief plot outline and list of winners in other categories. [Site requires free registration.]

Editorial Reviews: Motherless Brooklyn.

Customer Reviews: Motherless Brooklyn

Book excerpt.

USA Today review by Ann Prichard.

Synopsis, editor/reader reviews, and ordering information.

Short plot synopsis of this 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee (and soon-to-be feature film starring Edward Norton).

Tucson Weekly. Review focusing on the protagonist's linguistic tics as an amplification of the freakshow that lies beneath the surface of our normal world.

"By creating a detective with Tourette's syndrome, Jonathan Lethem addresses the mystery of language."

Bold Type's print excerpt from the novel.

Bold Type streaming audio clip of Lethem reading the opening passage of this extraordinary novel.

Frederick Zackel's review for January magazine.

"An author comes up with a new (and brilliant) twist for the detective novel: A narrator with Tourette's syndrome."

Lethem joins in on an article re: Tourette's syndrome (the disorder attributed to his "Motherless Brooklyn" main character and narrator, Lionel Essrog).

Sleuth Sayer by Luc Sante.

Review by Adam Mazmanian

New York Times review by Albert Mobilio.