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Tuesday August 31, 1999
New York Times
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday August 29, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Review by Randy Cohen
Perlman's Ordeal by Brooks Hansen
Review by Alice Truax
Just Revenge by Alan M. Dershowitz
Review by Adam Liptak
Someone to Watch over Me: Stories by Richard Bausch
Review by Lisa Zeidner
The Kind I'm Likely to Get: A Collection by Ken Foster
Review by Stephanie Zacharek
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
Review by Daniel Mendelsohn
Sea of Memory by Erri De Luca
Review by Lucy Ferriss
Books in Brief:
Makai by Kathleen Tyau
Review by Julie Gray
The Pledge by Rob Kean
Review by Jon Garelick
The End of the Class War by Catherine Brady
Review by Jenifer Berman
In the Family Way by Tommy Hays
Review by Maud Casey
Why She Left Us by Rahna Reiko Rizzuto
Review by Sarah Saffian
Washington Post Book World
Everybody Smokes in Hell by John Ridley
Review by Richard Lipez
Just Revenge by Alan Dershowitz
Review by Jonathan Groner
The Saving Graces by Patricia Gaffney
Review by Patricia Elam
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Review by Holly Bass
Philadelphia Inquirer
Who's Irish by Gish Jen
Review by Karen Heller
While I Was Gone by Sue Miller
Review by Jill P. Capuzzo
San Francisco Chronicle
Hunting Down Home by Jean McNeil
Review by Mary Mackey
Yellow Jack by Josh Russell
Review by Seth Lobdell
Until the Real Thing Comes Along by Elizabeth Berg
Review by Sarah Coleman
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Review by John Perry
LA Times
The Coming of the Night by John Rechy
Review by Gary Indiana
Everybody Smokes in Hell by John Ridley
Review by Thoma Curwen
What It Takes to Get to Vegas by Yxta Maya Murray
Review by Cara Mia Di Massa
Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Jonathan Levi
Discoveries:
Capture the Flag by Rebecca Chace
The Last Life by Claire Messud
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Tuesday August 24, 1999
New York Times
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday August 22, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Mr. Wroe's Virgins by Jane Rogers
Review by Kathryn Harrison
Expose by Laura Van Wormer
Review by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith
Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu Tien-Wen
Review by Peter Kurth
Foreign Brides by Elena Lappin
Review by Stephen Amidon
The Jukebox Queen of Malta by Nichols Rinaldi
Review by Tom Drury
A Stranger in the Earth by Marcel Theroux
Review by David Willis McCullough
When we Were Wolves: Stories by Jon Billman
Review by Chris Solomon
Books In Brief:
Actual Air: Poems by David Berman
Review by David Kirby
Three Dollars by Elliot Perlman
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope
Review by Linda Barret Osborne
Who I Was Suppose To Be: Short Stories by Susan Perabo
Review by Dana Kennedy
Water Marked by Helen Elaine Lee
Review by Katharine Whittemore
O Careless Love: Stories and a Novella by Susan Dodd
Review by Barbara Quick
Washington Post Book World
Mountain Time by Ivan Doig
Review by Jonathan Yardley
The Climate of the Country by Marnie Meuller
Review by Mary Ishimoto Morris
San Francisco Chronicle
Local Girls by Alice Hoffman
Review by Courtney Weaver
Village of a Million Spirits by Ian MacMillan
Review by Regina Weinreich
The Pigskin Rabbi by Willard Manus
Review by Sarah Coleman
Billy and Girl by Deborah Levy
Notes of a Desolate Man by Chu-Tien
Po Man's Child by Marci Blackman
Girl in Hyacinth Blue by Susan Vreeland
River, Cross My Heart by Breena Clarke
Review by John Perry
Steps and Exes by Laura Kalpakian
Review by Jennie Yabroff
LA Times
Zwilling's Dream by Ros Feld
Review by Richard Howard
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Season of Sun & Rain by Marjorie Dorner
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
Hadrian's Walls by Robert Draper
Review by Dale Singer
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Friday August 20, 1999
New York Times
Run Catch Kiss by Amy Sohn
Review by Richard Bernstein
Washington Post
Killing Me Softly by Nicci French
Review by Carolyn See
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Thursday August 19, 1999
New York Times
Foreign Brides by Elinor Lappin
Review by Richard Eder
Washington Post
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
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Sunday August 15, 1999
New York Times Book Review
What She Left Me: Stories and a Novella by Judy Doenges
Review by Katherine Dieckmann
Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? Stories by Elyse Gasco
Review by Margot Livesy
The Woman Who Cut Her Leg at the Maidstone Club: and other Stories
by Julia Slavin
Review by Charles Taylor
My Father, Dancing: Stories by Bliss Broyard
Review by Allegra Goodman
My Date with Satan: Stories by Stacey Richter
Review by Elizabeth Gleick
Alice Springs by Nikki Gemmell
Review by Elizabeth Braver
Mountain Time by Ivan Doig
Review by Bruce Barcott
Books in Brief:
Speak Rwanda by Julian R. Pierce
Review by Kristin Eliasberg
Hunting Down Amanda by Andrew Klavan
Review by John D. Thomas
Otherwise Engaged by Suzanne Finnamore
Review by Sally Eckhoff
The Sands of Sakkara by Glenn Meade
Review by Jonathan Miles
A Good Story and Other Stories by Donald E. Westlake
Review by Andrea Higbie
Washington Post Book World
Cheaters by Eric Jerome Dickey
Review by Yolanda Joe
The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman
Review by Joanne Omang
The Girl's Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melisa Bank
My Father, Dancing by Bliss Broyard
Review by Liesl Schillinger
The True History of Paradise by Margaret Cezair-Thompson
Review by Michael Upchurch
A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe
Review by Opal Moore
The Coming Storm by Paul Russell
Review by Dennis Drabelle
Philadelphia Inquirer
Jem (and Sam) by Ferdinand Mount
Review by David Delman
San Francisco Chronicle
Living for the City by Jervey Tervalon
Review by Brian Schwartz
Poachers by Tom Franklin
Review by Cathryn Alpert
The Physics of Sunset by Jane Vandenburgh
Review by John Perry
My Date with Satan by Stacey Richter
Review by Laurel Rosen
My Russian by Dierdre McNamer
Review by David Wiegand
LA Times
The Experiment by John Darnton
Review by Eugen Weber
Discoveries:
My Date with Satan by Stacey Richter
The Woman Who Cut Off Her Leg At the Maidstone Club by Julia
Slavin
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Seasons of Sun & Rain by Marjorie Dorner
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
Hadrian's Walls by Robert Draper
Review by Dale Singer
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Monday August 9, 1999
Known Dead by Donald Harstad
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Sunday August 8, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Capture the Flag by Rebecca Chace
Review by Deborah Weisgall
A Certain Age by Tama Janowitz
Review by Henry Alford
The Experiment by John Darnton
Review by Colin Harrison
The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin by Richard Lourie
Review by Ken Kalfus
Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by D.T. Max
Books in Brief:
A Matter of Time by Shashi Deshpande
Review by Maureen McLane
The Life I Lead by Keith Banner
Review by Peter Kurth
Awaiting Grace by Roanne Daryl Thomas
Review by Erica Sanders
A Citizen of the World by Maclin Bocock
Review by Joy Katz
Sergeant Dickinson by Jerome Gold
Review by Dwight Garner
Washington Post Book World
The Wonders of the Invisble World by David Gates
How Animals Mate by Daniel Mueller
Review by James Hynes
Murder on the Gravy Train by Phyllis Richman
Review by Katy Munger
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Prayer of the Bone by Paul Bryers
Review by Peter Landry
Black Notice by Patricia Cornwell
Review by David Delman
San Francisco Chronicle
The Wonders of the Invisible World by David Gates
Review by David L. Ulin
The Redhunter by William F. Buckley
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Murder in the Marais by Cara Black
Review by Ellen McGarrahan
Wrong Information is Being Given Out at Princeton by J.P. Donleavy
Review by Paul DiFilipo
LA Times
A Certain Age by Tama Janowitz
Review by Phyllis Richardson
Elegy for the Departure by Zbigniew Herbert
Review by Jaroslaw Anders
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss
When We Were Wolves by Jon Billman
Review by Ron Franscell
The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman
Review by Jamieson Spencer
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Friday August 6, 1999
New York Times
The Interpreter of Maladies: Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Syrup by Maxx Barry
Review by Carolyn See
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Monday August 2, 1999
New York Times
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Review by Christopher Lehmenn-Haupt
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Prayer of the Bone by Paul Bryers
Review by Mandy Davis
The Weight of Dreams by Jonis Agee
Review by Susan C. Thomson
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Sunday August 1, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Italian Fever by Valerie Martin
Review by Craig Seligman
Open City: Seven Writers in Post War; edited by Willaim Weaver
Review by Jay Parini
The Palace by Lisa St. Aubin De Teran
Review by David Willis McCullough
River of Darkness by Rennie Aurth
Review by Christopher Dickey
Night Duty by Melitta Breznik
Review by Suzanne Ruta
The Anniversary: And Other Stories by Louis Auchincloss
Review by Emily Barton
Books in Brief:
A Corner of the Veil by Laurence Cosse
Review by Erik Burns
Wrack by James Bradley
Review by Janice P. Nimura
The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft by Thomas M. Disch
Review by Scott Sutherland
Mrs. Dalloway by Robin Lippincott
Review by Bruce Allen
Breathing Water by T. Greenwood
Review by Peter Khoury
Washington Post Book World
The Palace by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
Review by Robert Girardi
England, England by Julian Barnes
Review by Richard Tillinghast
Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns
Review by Chris Bohjalian
The Extremes by Christopher Priest
Review by Charles Platt
Cityside by William Heffernan
Review by Steve Weinberg
San Francisco Chronicle
Broke Heart Blues by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Carey Harrison
The Metaphysical Touch by Sylvia Brownrigg
Review by Alison Baker
Police and Thieves by Peter Plate
Review by Jonah Raskin
The Kind I'm Likely to Get by Ken Foster
Review by David Wiegand
The Oxygen Man by Steve Yarbrough
Review by Paul Kafka
Blues: For All the Changes by Nikki Giovanni
Review by Kheven Lee LaGrone
LA Times
The Coldest Winter Ever by Sister Souljah
Review by Paula L. Woods
True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Review by John Balzar
First Fiction
Wormwood by D. J. Levien
Circling the Drain by Amanda Davis
Run Catch Kiss by Amy Sohn
3 Dollars by Elliot Perlman
L.A. Breakdown by Lou Mathews
Review by Mark Rozzo
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Italian Fever by Valerie Martin
Review by Martha Baker
From the Black Hills by Judy Troy
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren
California Fire and Life by Don Winslow
Review by Dale Singer
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