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DECEMBER
Sunday December 27, 1998
New York Times
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Review by William H. Pritchard
Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings
by Angela Carter
Review by Wendy Steiner
Miss Nobody
by Tomek Tryzna
Review by Brian Hall
Charity: Stories
by Mark Richard
Review by Tobin Harshaw
Books in Brief:
The River of Lost Voices
by Mark Brazaitis
Review by Maggie Garb
Beyond the Limbo Silence
by Eliabeth Nunez
Review by Anderson Tepper
Blast from the Past
by Kinky Friedman
Review by Brooke Allen
Outside Providence
by Peter Farrelly
Review by Liam Callanan
No
by Carl Djerassi
Review by David Murray
Another November
by Roger Grenier
Review by William Ferguson
Philadelphia Inquirer
Road-Side Dog
by Czeslaw Milosz
Review by Maggie Galehouse
A Soldier's Book
by Joanna Higgins
Review by Desmond Ryan
San Francisco Chronicle
Parable of the Talents
by Octavia Butler
Review by Paul Di Filippo
D'Alembert's Principle
by Angrew Crumey
Review by John Perry
LA Times
The Vintner's Luck
by Elizabeth Knox
Review by Richard Eder
Hectic Ethics
by Francisco Hinojosa
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Sunday December 20, 1998
New York Times
The Woman Watching
by Paola Capriolo
Review by Peter Hainsworth
Breakfast on Pluto
by Patrick McCabe
Review by Courtney Weaver
Opened Ground: Selected Poems
by Seamus Heaney
Review by Edward Mendelson
The Sin Eater
by Alice Thomas Ellis
Review by David Finkle
Quicas Borba
by Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis
Review by Jonathan Keates
How the Dead Live: Stories
by Alvin Greenberg
Review by Paul Baumann
Books in Brief:
Red, White and Blue
by Susan Isaacs
Review by Nora Klug
The Gates of Eden
by Ethan Coen
Review by Mark Lindquist
The Vampire Armand
by Anne Rice
Review by Michael Porter
A History of Silence
by Barbara Neil
Review by Stephanie Zacharek
Namako: Sea Cucumber
by Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Review by Jim Gladstone
A New and Glorious Life: Novellas
by Michelle Herman
Review by Patrick Giles
Washington Post
Breaking News
by Robert MacNeil
Review by M.G. Lord
Shimmer
by Sarah Schulman
The Cleft and Other Odd Tales
by Gahan Wilson
Review by Paul Di Filippo
Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue
by James Purdy
Giving Up America
by Pearl Abraham
A History of Silence
by Barbara Neil
Walking Through Mirrors
by Brian Keith Jackson
Ruby
by Ann Hood
Review by Miranda Schwartz
Philadelphia Inquirer
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Review by Denise Gess
Bech at Bay
by John Updike
Review by Gregory Feeley
Tuesday December 15, 1998
New York Times
Breakfast on Pluto
by Patrick McCabe
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Sunday December 13, 1998
New York Times
The Silent Duchess
by Dacia Maraini
Review by Kathryn Harrison
Soon: Tales from Hospice
by A.G. Mojtabai
Review by Roy Hoffman
Blood Feud
by Annabel Thomas
Review by Ann Harleman
County of Memory
by K.C. Frederick
Review by James Saynor
Balls
by Nanci Kincaid
Review by Erica Sanders
Books in Brief:
The Cleft
by Gahan Wilson
Review by Andrea Higbie
Let Nothing You Dismay
by Mark O'Donnell
Review by James Polk
Wives of the Fisherman
by Angela Huth
Review by Julie Gray
The Dark Room
by Julia Cameron
Review by Bill Kent
Hyssop
by Kevin McIlvoy
Review by Erik Burns
Excitability
by Diane Williams
Review by Gardner McFall
Washington Post Book World
The Restraint of Beasts
by Magnus Mills
Review by Michael Dirda
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
Review by Justin Cronin
Hunger: A Novella and Stories
by Lan Samantha Chang
Review by Josephine Foo
The Ladies from Petersburg
by Nina Berberova
Review by Cathy Young
Master Georgie
by Beryl Bainbridge
Review by Harriette Behringer
The Woody
by Peter Lefcourt
Review by Connie Ogle
San Francisco Chronicle
Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
Review by William Hjortsberg
Amsterdam
by Ian McEwan
Review by David Wiegand
The Farming of Bones
by Edwidge Danticat
Review by Autumn Stephens
Tuesday December 8, 1998
Cafe on the Nile
by Bartle Bull
Review by Richard Bernstein
Sunday December 6, 1998
San Francisco Chronicle
The Hours
by Michael Cunningham
Review by Melissa Levine
Bing Crosby's Last Song
by Lester Goran
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Friday December 4, 1998
Washington Post
The Giant, O'Brien
by Hilary Mandel
Review by Carolyn See
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