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Sunday January 31, 1999 New York Times Heavy Water by Martin Amis Review by A.O. Scott Falling Slowly by Anita Brookner Review by Claire Messud Werewolves in Thier Youth: Stories by Michael Chabon Review by Michael Gorra Women Drinking Benedictine by Sharon Dilworth Review by Liam Callanan Canone Inverso by Paolo Maurensig Review by Jonathan Keates Books in Brief: Nevermore by Harold Schecter Review by James Polk In the Pond by Ha Jin Review by Mei Chin Bring Us the Old People by Marisa Kantor Stark Review by David Galef Rara Avis by Jacqueline Weld Review by Martha E. Stone Shimmer by Sarah Schulman Review by Erica Sanders The Bridegroom was a Dog by Yoko Tawada Review by Michael Porter Washington Post Book World Be Cool by Elmore Leonard Review by George P. Pelecanos The Prodigal Spy by Joseph Kanon Review by Joseph Finder Empress of the Splendid Season by Oscar Hijuelos Review by Bliss Broyard Philadelphia Inquirer Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis Review by Jocelyn McClurg Archangel by Robert Harris Review by David Walton Country of Memory by K.C. Frederick Review by Peter Ruck San Francisco Chronicle Cases by Joe Gores Review by Marc Igler Nod by Fanny Howe Review by Carey Harrison Road-Side Dog by Czeslaw Milosz Review by Christopher Merrill Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys Review by Alison Anderson LA Times Ocean Sea by Alessandro Baricco; Translated from the Italian by Alasdair McEwen Review by Richard Eder Discoveries: Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon White Bird in a Blizzard by Laura Kasischke Dreaming Southern by Linda Bruckheimer The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Friday January 29, 1999 New York Times Heavy Water and Other Stories by Martin Amis Review by Michiko Kakutani Washington Post Southern Cross by Patricia Cornwell Review by Carolyn See Thursday January 28, 1999 New York Times While I Was Gone by Sue Miller Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Wednesday January 27, 1999 New York Times Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald Review by Richard Bernstein Tuesday January 26, 1999 New York Times Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing Review by Michiko Kakutani Sunday January 24, 1999 New York Times Book Review The Music Lesson by Katherine Weber Review by Sylvia Brownrigg Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis Reviewed by Daniel Mendelsohn Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald Review by Emily Barton The Age of Terror by David Plante Review by Caleb Crain Louse by David Grand Review by David Sacks Small Craft Warnings: Stories by Kate Braverman Review by Bill Goldstein The Conversion by Aharon Appelfeld Review by Larry Wolff Books in Brief: Ring around the Moon by Mary Burnett Smith Review by Maggie Galehouse The Book of Memories by Ana Maria Shua Review by Paula Friedman Necessary Fictions by Barbara Croft Review by Gloria Rohmann The Essence of the Thing by Madeleine St. John Review by Gardner McFall Tree Surgery for Beginners by Patrick Gale Review by Philip Gambone Washington Post Book World The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden Review by Lois Bayard The Vintner's Luck by Elizabeth Knox Review by David Tedhams Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler Review by Sheree R. Thomas Pullers by Tom Graves Review by Frederick L. McKissack The Desert Crop by Catherine Cookson Review by Louise Titchener Philadelphia Inquirer A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia by Victor Pelevin Review by Donald Newlove The Travelling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido Review by Karen Heller Miss Nobody by Tomek Tryzna Review by Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson Amy and Isabelle by Elizabeth Strout Review by David Walton San Francisco Chronicle Appalachia by Charles Wright Review by Tom Hurley A Journey to the End of the Millennium by A.B. Yehosha Review by Alan K. Raab Sister of My Heart by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Review by Gail Tsukiyama Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas by William Gass Review by Kevin Berger Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis Review by Mark Maxwell Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz Review by Erika Taylor LA Times Fear by Irini Spanidou Review by Richard Eder Friday January 22, 1999 Washington Post D'Alembert's Principle by Andrew Crumey Review by Carolyn See Thursday January 21, 1999 New York Times Archangel by Robert Harris Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Washington Post Camelot by Caryl Rivers Review by Kelly Murphy Mason Tuesday January 19, 1999 Washington Post Fear by Irini Spanidou Review by Wendy Smith Sunday January 17, 1999 New York Times Book Review The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill Review by Langdon Hammer The Country Life by Rachel Cusk Review by Lisa Zeidner Amy and Isabelle by Elizabath Strout Review by Suzanne Berne Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District by Manlio Argueta Review by Patrick Markee The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera Review by Jacqueline Carey Books in Brief: Rude Behavior by Dan Jenkins Review by Charles Salzberg Darkness Falls by John M. Del Vecchio Review by Joan Mooney The Storm by Frederick Buechner Review by Ruth Coughlin Climbing the God Tree by Jaimee Wriston Colbert Review by Megan Harlan The Sensualist by Barbara Hodgson Review by Erik Burns Washington Post Book World Duane's Depressed by Larry McMurtry Review by Craig Nova Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe Review by Peter Quinn The Town of N by Leonid Dobyshin The Loss: a Novella and Two Stories by Vladimir Makanin Review by Tomas Venclova Philadelphia Inquirer Canone Inverso by Paolo Maurensig: Translated from the Italian by Jenny McPhee Review by Edward Hoover Blue Light by Walter Mosley Review by Susan Balee San Francisco Chronicle Saviors by Paul Eggers Review by Jane Smiley The Dogs by Rebecca Brown Review by John Perry The Revisionist by Helen Schulman Review by Dan Levy Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe Review by Barbara Schultz LA Times The Prodigal Spy by Joseph Kanon Review by Jonathan Levi The Woody by Peter Lefcourt Review by Larry Beinhart Sunday January 10, 1999 New York Times The Jew of New York by Ben Katchor Review by J. Hoberman Mara and Dann by Doris Lessing Review by Michael Upchurch Fear by Irini Spanidou Review by Barbara Fisher The Dream Mistress by Jenny Diski Review by Diana Postlethwaite Books in Brief: Arcade by Gordon Lish Review by James Polk Selene of the Spirits by Melissa Pritchard Review by Nora Krug From a Sealed Room by Rachel Kadish Review by Maggie Galehouse Out of the Dark by Patrick Modiano; translated by Jordan Stump Review by Jenny McPhee In the Presence of Horses by Barbara Dimmick Review by Sally Eckoff The Daiquiri Girls by Toni Graham Review by stephanie Zacharek Washington Post Book World Right Here, Right Now by Trey Ellis Review by Brian Gilmore The Tale of the 1002nd Night by Joseph Roth Review by Michael Dirda Turning Japanese by David Galef Review by Janice P. Nimura Philadelphia Inquirer Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 by Seamus Heany Review by John Lavin Mara and Dawn; an Adventure by Doris Lessing Review by Kyrie O'Connor San Francisco Chronicle Stories from the Tube by Matthew Sharpe Review by John Perry The Sandglass by Romesh Gunesekera Review by Michael Upchurch The Agent by George V. Higgins Review by Carey Harrison LA Times Mr. Darwin's Shooter by Roger McDonald Review by Richard Eder The Last King of Scotland by Giles Foden Review by Walter Abish Sunday January 3, 1999 New York Times A Werewolf Problem in Central Russia: and Other Stores by Victor Pelevin Review by Richard Lourie Assault on Paradise by Tatiana Lobo Review by Jay Parini The Traveling Hornplayer by Barbara Trapido Review by Edward Hower Books in Brief: The Agent by George V. Higgins Review by Charles Salzberg Veneer by Steve Yarborough Review by Albert Mobilio The Sex Squad by David Leddick Review by Megan Harlan The Grassy Street by Asar Epel Review by Allen Lincoln The Shape of the Journey: New and Collected Poems by Jim Harrison Review by Scott Veale Washington Post Little Red Riding Hood in the Red Light District by Manlio Arqueta Review by Jaime Manrique Paradise, New York by Eileen Polack Review by Judith Bolton-Fasman The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque by Joyce Carol Oates Review by Douglas E. Winter Philadelphia Inquirer The Road Home by Jim Harrison Review by Gregory Feeley San Francisco Chronicle Soft by Rupert Thomson Review by Michael Sragow Watermelon Nights by Greg Sarris Review by Jennie Yabroff Apples from the Desert by Savyon Liebrecht Review by Sarah Coleman Billy Verite by Rick Harsch Review by Christina Schwarz LA Times First Fiction: Face-Time by Erik Tarloff The Intuitionist by Colson Whitehead Original Bliss by A.L. Kennedy The Narrowback by Michael S. Ledwidge Skinswaps by Andrej Blatnik: translated from the Slovenian by Tamara Soban Review by Mark Rozzo Discoveries: The Dream Mistress by Jenny Diaki The Music Lesson by Katharine Weber Review by Susan Salter Reynolds December List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site