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JANUARY

Tuesday, January 27, 1998
New York Times
  • Night Train by Martin Amis Review by Michiko Kakutani.
    ""Night Train" is a virtuoso performance."
    "Amis has created a quicksilver narrative that grabs the reader and refuses to let go."

    Sunday, January 25, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan Review by Sven Birkerts
  • Celebration by Harry Crews Review by Karen Karbo
  • Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer Review by Lee Siegel
  • Flying Leap. Stories. by Judy Budnitz. Review by J.D. Biersdorfer
  • Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman Review by Laura Miller
  • Body Parts. Stories by Jere Joar. Review by Tom Drury.
    Books in Brief:
  • The Novellas of Hortense Calisher
    Review by Erik Burns
  • Highways and Dancehalls by Diana Atkinson
    Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
  • Tomorrrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
    Review by Liam Callanan
  • Former Virgin by Cris Mazza
    Review by Elizabeth Gaffney
  • The Villa Marini by Gloria Montero
    Review by Ruth Coughlin
  • Lovers by Walter Keady
    Review by Casey King.
    Washington Post Bookworld
  • With Friends Like These by Nicholas Coleridge Review by Carolyn Banks
  • Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer Review by Franklin Foer
    Poetry:
  • Tender by Toi Derricotte Review by Jabari Asim
    Philadelphia Inquirer
  • The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler Review by Roland Kelts
  • The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima Review by John Brumfield
  • Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson Review by Steven Rea
  • The House Gun by Nadine Gordimer Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore Review by Brian St. Pierre.
  • The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima Review by Willaim Rodarmor.
  • Teeth by Hugh Gallagher Review by Barbara Schultz.
    LA Times
  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan Review by Richard Eder
  • The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler
    Review by Susie Linfield
  • Night Train by Martin Amis
    Review by Jonathan Levi
  • Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler
    Review by Gene Lichtenstein
  • Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton
    Review by Francine Prose
  • A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard
    Review by Paula Friedman
  • The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore
    Review by Thomas Flanagan
  • The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima
    Review by Scott Bradfield

    Thursday, January 22, 1998
    New York Times
  • Cuba Libre by Elmore Leonard Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

    Tuesday, January 20, 1998
    New York Times
  • Riven Rock by T. Coraghessan Boyle Review by Michiko Kakutani.

    Sunday, January 18, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard Review by Lorna Sage.
  • Bad Chemistry by Gary Krist Review by David Willis McCullough.
  • Visitors by Anita Brookner Review by Jacqueline Carey.
  • Starting Out in the Evening by Brian Morton Review by William H. Pritchard.
    Books in Brief:
  • The Mirror of Lida Sal by Miguel Angel Astorias Review by James Polk.
  • Booth by David Robertson Review by J.D. Biersdorfer.
  • A Dry Spell by Susan Moloney Review by Kimberly B. Marlow.
  • Foggy Mountain Breakdown and Other Stories by Sharyn McCrumb Review by Jack Sullivan.
  • The Old Religion by David Mamet Review by Patrick Giles.
  • Bruiser by Richard House Review by Steve Weinstein.
    Washington Post BookWorld
  • The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett Review by Andrea Gollin.
  • Byrne by Anthony Burgess.
  • Lola by Tim McLaurin.
    Review by Thomas M. Disch.
  • Prozac Highway by Persimmon Blackridge Review by Jeannine DeLombard.
    Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday Books
  • Charming Biily by Alice McDermott Review by Susan Miron.
    Los Angeles Times
  • House Gun by Nadine Gordimer
    Review by Richard Eder
  • The Sky, the Stars, and the Wilderness by Rick Bass
    Review by Thomas Curwen.
  • Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer
    Review by Kenneth Turan.
    Boston Globe
  • The Serpentine Cave by Jill Paton Walsh.
    Review by Robert Tylor.
    San Francisco Chronicle
  • Night Train by Martin Amis Review by Carey Harrison.
  • The Edge of Heaven by Marita Golden Review by Linda Raymond.
  • Daughter of Joy by JoAnne Levy Review by Karen Peterson Liberatore.
  • Railroad Schemes by Cecelia Holand Review by Alix Madrigal.

    Thursday, January 15, 1998
    New York Times.
  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan Reviewed by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt.
    "The opening of Ian McEwan's new novel, "Enduring Love," is one of the most compelling this reviewer has come across in years."

    Wednesday, January 14, 1998
    Washington Post
  • Animal Husbandry by Laura Zigman Review by Jonathan Yardley.
    "This clever, engaging first novel"

    Monday, January 12, 1998
    Boston Globe
  • The World More or Less by Jean Rouaud
    Review by David Mehegan.

    Sunday, January 11, 1998
    New York times Book Review
  • Paradise By Toni Morrison Review by Brooke Allen
    "...Toni Morrison's complex and impressive new novel..."
  • The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler Review by Dwight Garner
    "...a slim, erotic and fable-like new novel that's set in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City."
    "the novel does not rank with Butler's best."
  • Charming Billy by Alice McDermott. Review by Alida Becker
  • Bunny Modern by David Bowman Review by Sarah Ferguson
    Books in Brief
  • Railroad Schemes by Cecelia Holland Review by Paula Friedman
  • Boondocking by Tricia Bauer Review by Andrea Higbie
  • Last Trolley from Beethovenstaat by Grete Weil Review by Martha Stone
  • Jack Frusciante Has Left the Band by Enrico Brizzi Review by Christopher Atamian
  • Under the Red Flag by Ha Jin Review by Peter Bricklebank
  • Night Letters by Robert Dessaix Review by Patrick Farrell
    Washington Post Bookworld
  • The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin by Maeve Brennan Review by Thomas Flanagan.
  • Paradise by Toni Morrison Review by Carol Shields.
  • Tales from the Blue Archives by Lawrence Thornton Review by Colm Toibin.
  • The Ultimate Intimacy by Ivan Klima. Translated from the Czech by A.G. Brain.
    Review by Steven Moore.
  • The Magician's Wife by Brian Moore. Review by Claire Messud.
    Los Angeles Times
  • Paradise by Toni Morrison.Review by Richard Eder.
  • Eating Chinese Food by Mei Ng. Review by Heller McAlpin.
  • Charming Billy by Alice McDermott Review by Richard Eder.
    Philadelphia Inquirer.
  • Shadows on the Hudson by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Review by Donald Newlove.
  • Paradise by Toni Morrison. Review by Paula Friedman.
  • Enduring Love by Ian McEwan. Review by Jim Gladstone.

    Friday, January 9, 1998.
    New York Times
  • The World, More or Less by Jean Rouaud. Translated by Barbara Wright.
    Review by Richard Bernstein.
    Jean Rouaud...winner of the prestigious Goncourt Prize with his first novel, translated into English as "Fields of Glory."
    "The novel, superbly translated by Barbara Wright, is as richly intense and unusual in its sensibility as Rouaud's previous work."

    Tuesday, January 6, 1998.
    New York Times
  • Paradise by Toni Morrison Review by Michiko Kakutani.
    "Unfortunately, "Paradise" is everything that "Beloved" was not: it's a heavy-handed, schematic piece of writing, thoroughly lacking in the novelistic magic Ms. Morrison has wielded so effortlessly in the past. It's a contrived, formulaic book that mechanically pits men against women, old against young, the past against the present."

    Sunday Jan. 4, 1998
    New York Times Book Review
  • Pursuit of a Woman on the Hinge of History by Hans Konig Review by William Ferguson.
  • In Another Place, Not Here by Dionne Brand. Review by Catherine Bush.
    "Brand, who has written several highly acclaimed volumes of poetry, was born in Trinidad and has lived in Canada since 1970."
    "Passionate in its attention to emotional nuance and visual detail, "In Another Place, Not Here" weds beauty and a fierce intelligence in a work that offers a syncretic and multiple sense of place."
  • The Mooring of Starting Out: The First Five Books of Poetry byJohn Ashbery
    Review by Nicholas Jenkins.
    Books in Brief:
  • Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson. Review by J.D. Biersdorfer.
  • Don't Worry About the Kids by Jay Neugeboren. Review by Dale Peck.
  • Magdalena the Sinner by Lilian Faschinger. Review by Bill Christopherson.
  • Tropic of Orange by Kaaren Tei Yamashita. Review by Janet Kaye.
  • AKA Jane by Maureen Tan Review by David Murray.
  • The Profile Makers by Linda Bierds Review by Scott Veale.
    Washington Post Book World
  • Matters of Chance by Jeanette Haien Review by Hilma Wolitzer
    "This roomy novel of love, loss and survival is curiously and delightfully old-fashioned."
  • Commanche Moon by Larry MacMurtry Review by Noel Perrin.
    "Comanche Moon is a considerable book. McMurtry lovers will not want to miss it. For everybody else: optional."
  • The Ugliest House in the World by Peter Ho Davies.
  • Celibates and Other Lovers by Walter Keady.
  • Acid Plaid: New Scottish Writing. Edited by Harry Ritchie.
  • Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson.
  • Breakfast in Babylon by Emer Martin.
    Reviewed by Jay Fernandez
  • Leonardo's Horse by R.M. Berry Review by Steven Moore.
    "Berry certainly brings the age alive in all its fetid glory."
    "Berry's prose is as active as Leonardo's imagination, piling clause upon clause and multiplying details as he tracks Leonardo's memories"
    "...a postmodern novel..."
    Los Angeles Times.
  • No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman. Review by Richard Eder.
  • Another City, Not My Own by Dominick Dunne.Review by Gary Indiana.

    Monday December 29 1997.
    Washinton Post
  • The Deep Green Sea by Robert Olen Butler. Review by Rachel Pastan.
    Correction on Sunday January 4, 1998.
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