I finished reading Alan Hollinghurst's Booker-winning novel, The Line of Beauty, over the Chinese New Year holidays. Right before the holidays, I went to see Ang Lee's Oscar-hopeful Brokeback Mountain. I dare say it's a period of me exploring homosexuality.

• The last summer by Geoff Dyer @ Telegraph (20040328)
• Between the lines by Alfred Hickling @ Guardian (20040410)
• Review by Alex Clark @ The Sunday Times (20040411)
• AIDS an innocence by David Robson @ Telegraph (20040425)
• Welly-Whanging by Thomas Jones @ London Review of Books (20040520)
• Review by Michael Dirda @ The Washington Post (20040926)
• "The Line of Beauty": Growing up among greed, vanity and drugs in '80s London by Michael Upchurch @ The Seattle Times (20041010)
• Lines of beauty and depravity by Ron Charles @ The Christian Science Monitor (20041026)
• The Last Good Summer by Anthony Quinn @ The New York Times (20041031)
• SURFACE CRACKS: An outsider parties with the privileged of 1980s Britain in Booker Prize winner by David Wiegand @ San Francisco Chronicle (20041031)
• The double curve by Henry Hitchings @ Powells.com (20041031)
• In Thatcher's London, sex, drugs, and the ruling class by Don Lee @ Boston Globe (20041031)
• In Waugh's Territory, Shadowed by AIDS by Michiko Kakutani @ The New York Times (20041123)
• Review @ Publishers Weekly
• Review by Daniel Levisohn @ About.com