Steelman, Ben, “Old World deities vie with TV for Americas soul”, Sunday Star-News, 26 August 2001, 1D, 8D AMERICAN GODS, by Neil Gaiman, William Morrow, $26. In the summer’s hottest new fantasy, Bilquis, the onetime queen of Sheba and an avatar of Isis/Ishtar/Astarte, is hitting the pavement as an L.A. […]

Maria Siu-Lee was kind enough to transcribe this 4 star review of American Gods from The Big Issue in the North. American GodsNeil GaimanRob Haynes – The Big Issue in the North, August 6 – 12 2001 When waves of immigrants – Norsemen, African, Irish – came to America across […]

http://www.folk-tales.com/americangods.html http://www.januarymagazine.com/profiles/gaiman.html http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=208192&thesection=entertainment&thesubsection=books(In this one, we learn that Shadow is imprisoned for a crime he “predictably” did not commit… except of course that he did commit it.) http://lifeamgood.com/01julybooks.htm

Oh! Magazine has a review of American Gods in their downloadable PDF magazine.

Clark, Graham, “AMERICAN GODS”, Courier Mail, 18 August 2001. AMERICAN GODS, by Neil Gaiman (Hodder, $29.95) EX-CON Shadow has done his time, his wife’s dead, and he’s on the road with Mr Wednesday, who might well be a god or at least king of the United States and righter of […]

I think this review of Stardust from Spike Magazine is new.

Thomas, Harry “‘American Gods’ a study in details”, San Antonio Express-News, 5 August 2001, 06H American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, Morrow, $26 “American Gods” is so intricately detailed in its imagery that even its stand-alone chapters would get an A+ from any creative writing professor. The reader can almost smell […]

Kusnetz, Ilyse, “New gods are up to learning old tricks”, Orlando Sentinel, 29 July 2001, F4 If Jack Kerouac had written The Lord of the Rings, it might have resembled Neil Gaiman’s new novel about new gods, old tricks and that classic American version of the hero’s quest: the road […]

McGinty, Stephen, “Twilight of the dethroned gods”, The Scotsman, 28 July 2001, p.16 American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, Headline, #9.99. WHERE do the old gods go? When the incense has drifted heavenwards and dispersed, when the final human sacrifice has breathed his last, or when elderly followers rise from their […]

Alden, John R., “Fantasized view of life in U.S. is first-rate”, Plain Dealer, 22 July 2001, I9. American Gods, by Neil Gaiman, William Morrow, 465 pp., $26 Foreigners who visit the United States are often struck by things we natives ignore. They notice the cookie-cutter franchises, the reptile farms, the […]