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Sunday February 28, 1999
New York Times Book Review
The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman by Bruce Robinson
Review by Patrick McGrath
Smoke Screen by Vincent Patrick
Review by James Polk
Dreamland by Kevin Baker
Review by Thomas Mallon
The Houdini Girl by Martyn Bedford
Review by Carey Harrison
Appalachia by Charles Wright
Review by Adam Kirsch
The Prodigal Spy by Joseph Kanon
Review by Morton Kondracke
Books in Brief:
The Palace of Wasted Footsteps by Cary Holladay
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
Skinswaps by Andrej Blatnik
Review by Allen Lincoln
Imani All Mine by Connie Porter
Review by Andrea Higbie
Paradise, New York by Eileen Pollack
Review by Ruth Coughlin
Cloud Nine by Luanne Rice
Review by Kimberly B. Marlowe
The Mistress by Philippe Tapon
Review by Liam Callanan
Washington Post Book World
Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
Review by Andrew O'Hehir
The Return of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Review by Michael Dirda
Single & Single by John le Carre
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Philadelphia Inquirer
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by Greg Morago
God: Stories; Edited by C. Michael Curtis
Review by Carlin Romano
San Francisco Chronicle
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Review by Carey Harrison
Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler
Review by John Perry
After All: Last Poems by William Matthews
Review by Chhristopher Merrill
The Laws of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Merle Rubin
LA Times
Freedom Song: Three Novels by Amit Chaudhuri
Review by Richard Eder
The Arrow's Flight by Mark Merlis
Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield
Review by Peter Green
Discoveries:
The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chobsky
The Fires by Rene Steinke
The Idealists by Ehnry Carlisle and Olga Andreyev Carlisle
Heads by Harry by Lois-Ann Yamanaka
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Dreamland by Kevin Baker
Review by Harry Levins
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
Review by Jamieson Spencer
Single & Single by John le Carre
Review by Peter Wolfe
Sunday February 21, 1999
New York Times
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
Review by Kinky Friedman
While I was Gone by Sue Miller
Review by Jay Parini
Collected Poems, 1920-1954 by Eugenio Montale
Review by Nicholas Jenkins
Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry
Review by Robert Houston
The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox
Review by Nina Auerbach
The Healer by Greg Hollingshead
Review by Abby Frucht
Public Men by Allen Drury
Review by Erik Tarloff
Allan Stein by Matthew Stadler
Review by Edmund White
Books in Brief:
Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon
Review by Anrea Higbie
Extremities: Stories by Kathe Koja
Review by Christopher Atamian
Traveling on One Leg by Herta Muller
Review by William Ferguson
The Liberation of Little Heaven: And Other Stories by Mark Jacobs
Review by Anderson Tepper
Washington Post Book World
While I was Gone by Sue Miller
Review by Kate Lehrer
The Law of Similars by Chris Bohjalian
Review by Joan Smith
The Houdini Girl by Martyn Bedford
Review by Adam Mazmanian
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mosquito by Gayl Jones
Review by Quinn Eli
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
Review by Peter Landry
The Storm by Frederick Buechner
Review by Michael Harrington
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Review by Justin D. Coffin
San Francisco Chronicle
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Review by Andrew Roe
A Werewolf Problem in Central Asia by Victor Pelevin
Review by Clark Blaise
Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon
Review by Autumn Stephens
Messiah by Andrei Codrescu
Review by Mark Maxwell
Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Stout
Review by Courtney Weaver
Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell
Review by Carey Harrison
Falling Slowly by Anita Brookner
Review by Paul Kafka-Gibbons
Armadillo by William Boyd
Review by Gina Arnold
LA Times
House of Sand and Fog by Anre Dubus
Review by Richard Eder
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Harukami Murakami
The Stones Cry Out by Hikaru Okuizumi
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Friday February 19, 1999
Washington Post
Suspicion by Barbara Rogan
Review by Carolyn See
Thursday February 18, 1999
New York Times
The Houdini Girl by Martyn Bedford
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Washington Post
The Idealists by Henry Carlisle and Olga Andreyev Carlisle
Review by Susan Jacoby
Wednesday February 17, 1999
New York Times
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Harukami Murakami
Review by Richard Bernstein
Washington Post
The Sound of Trumpets by John Mortimer
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Tuesday February 16, 1999
New York Times
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Sunday February 14, 1999
New York Times
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
Review by Anita Gates
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Review by Mary Hawthorne
Archangel by Robert Harris
Review by Michael Specter
The Things Do To Make It Home by Beverley Gologorsky
Review by Jacqueline Carey
The Essential Gore Vidal: Edited by Fred Kaplan
Review by Paul Mattick
The Last Lovely City: Stories by Alice Adams
Review by Susan Bolotin
Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy
Review by Thomas Lynch
Jungle Wedding: Stories by Joseph Clark
Review by William J. Cobb
Books in Brief:
The Second Angel by Philip Kerr
Review by Charles Flowers
The Gray Lover by Carl Friedman
Review by Gloria Rohmann
Madam Fate by Marcia Douglas
Review by Nora Krug
Crossing by Manuel Luis
Review by David Murray
Traffic by Jack Anderson
Review by Paula Friedman
San Francisco Chronicle
Sonny Liston was a Friend of Mine: Stories by Thom Jones
Review by Peter Nichols
Spinners by Anthony McCarten
Review by John Perry
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
Review by Roxanne Farmanfarmaian
Undiscovered Chekhov: 38 New Stories
Review by Suzanne D'Mello
Lucky Man, Lucky Woman by Jack Driscoll
Review by David Bowman
The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
Review by Carey Harrison
Washington Post Book World
On Mystic Lake by Kristin Hannah
Review by Bella Stander
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Review by Elizabeth Ward
Heavy Water and Other Stories by Martin Amis
Review by Michael Dirda
Standing at the Scratch Line by Guy Johnson
Review by James Sallis
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera
Review by Richard Eder
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Review by Sabina Lawlor Clarke
Heavy Water and Other Stories by Martin Amis
Review by Lara Wozniak
Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
Review by Brian Leighton
LA Times
Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
Review by Sudip Bose
Discoveries:
The Last Lovely City by Alice Adams
The Place You Return To is Home by Kirsty Gunn
Heavy Water by Martin Amis
While I was Gone by Sue Miller
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Friday February 12, 1999
New York Times
November 1916 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Review by Richard Bernstein
Thursday February 11, 1999
New York Times
Be Cool by Elmore Leonard
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Washington Post
Close to the Bone by Jake Lamar
Review by K.A. Dilday
Wednesday February 10, 1999
Washington Post
Archangel by Robert Harris
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Tuesday February 9, 1999
New York Times
Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Sunday February 7, 1999
New York Times Book Review
November 1916 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Review by John Bayley
A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A. B. Yehosha
Review by James E. Young
Face-Time by Erik Tarloff
Review by Patricia O'Brien
The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead
Review by Gary Krist
A Complicated Situation: Stories by Jane Mullen
Review by Sarah Ferguson
Wooroloo: Poems by Frieda Hughes
Review by Ruth Padel
Books in Brief:
Lost and Old Rivers by Alan Cheuse
Review by Erica Sanders
The Youngest Miss Ward by Joan Aiken
Review by Megan Harlan
Sarajevo Blues by Semezdin Mehmedinovic
Review by Laura Green
Seize the Night by Dean Koontz
Review by David Walton
Washington Post Book World
The Age of Terror by David Plante
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks
The Mistress by Philippe Tapon
Review by Susan Dooley
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald
Review by John R. Alden
San Francisco Chronicle
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
Review by David Wiegand
South of the Border, West of the Sun by Haruki Murakami
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Suspicion by Barbara Rogan
Review by John Perry
Childhood by Andre Alexis
Review by Michael Upchurch
LA Times
Incubus by Ann Arensberg
Review by Richard Eder
Eugenio Montale: Collected Poems 1920-1954:
Review by Richard Howard
Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 by Adrienne Rich
Review by Carol Muske Dukes
First Fiction:
The Things We Do To Make It Home by Beverley Gologorsky
Spinners by Anthony McCarten
The Electrical Field by Kerri Sakamoto
Louise by David Grand
Foreign Bodies by Hwee Hwee Tan
Review by Mark Rozzo
Friday February 5, 1999
New York Times
Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Incubus by Ann Arensberg
Review by Carolyn See
Tuesday February 2, 1999
Washington Post
The Tesseract by Alex Garland
Review by Dennis Drabelle
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