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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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