What Makes Him Tic? - New York Times review by Albert Mobilio. - http://www.nytimes.com/books/99/10/17/reviews/991017.17mobilot.html
'Motherless Brooklyn' Wins Book Critics Circle Prize - New York Times. Includes brief plot outline and list of winners in other categories. [Site requires free registration.] - http://www.nytimes.com/library/books/031400book-price.html
Books: Madman, P.I. - 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. - http://weeklywire.com/ww/10-11-99/tw_book.html
City Pages: The Tower of Babble - "By creating a detective with Tourette's syndrome, Jonathan Lethem addresses the mystery of language." - http://www.citypages.com/databank/20/982/article8012.asp
The Village Voice - Sleuth Sayer by Luc Sante. - http://www.villagevoice.com/vls/163/sante.shtml
Salon Health & Body | I Can't Help It! - Lethem joins in on an article re: Tourette's syndrome (the disorder attributed to his "Motherless Brooklyn" main character and narrator, Lionel Essrog). - http://www.salon.com/health/feature/2000/01/21/tourettes/index1.html
Review | Motherless Brooklyn - Frederick Zackel's review for January magazine. - http://www.januarymagazine.com/crfiction/motherless.html
Excerpt by Jonathan Lethem - Bold Type's print excerpt from the novel. - http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0999/lethem/excerpt.html
Reading by Jonathan Lethem - Bold Type streaming audio clip of Lethem reading the opening passage of this extraordinary novel. - http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0999/lethem/reading.html
Bold Type: Motherless Brooklyn - Short plot synopsis of this 1999 National Book Critics Circle Award nominee (and soon-to-be feature film starring Edward Norton). - http://www.randomhouse.com/boldtype/0999/lethem/
Salon Books | by Gary Krist - "An author comes up with a new (and brilliant) twist for the detective novel: A narrator with Tourette's syndrome." - http://www.salon.com/books/review/1999/09/23/lethem/