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).
City Pages: The Tower of Babble - "By creating a detective with Tourette's syndrome, Jonathan Lethem addresses the mystery of language."
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."
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).
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. (October 11, 1999)