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Sunday June 27, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Borrowed Hearts: New and Selected Stories by Rick DeMarinis
Review by Marc Smirnoff
Mother of Pearl by Melinda Haynes
Review by Roy Hoffman
Who's Irish by Gish Jen
Review by Jean Thompson
Don't Think Twice by Wayne Johnson
Review by Daniel Woodrell
Back to the Moon by Homer H. Hickam Jr.
Review by Anita Gates
The Pollen Room by Zoe Jenny
Review by Jenny McPhee
Books in Brief:
A Vaudville of Devils by Robert Girardi
Review by Katherine Wolff
Holy Smoke by Anna Campion and Jane Campion
Review by Gardner McFall
Father McGreevy by Brian O'Doherty
Review by Liam Callanan
A Taxi to the Flame by Vickie Karp
Review by Melanie Rehak
The Marvelous Adventures of Pierre Baptiste by Patricia Eakins
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Washington Post Book World
True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Review by Dawn Trouard
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Review by Cristina Del Sesto
Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
Love in a Dead Language: A Romance by Lee Siegel
Review by Paul Di Filippo
Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
The Paris Pilgrims by Clancy Carlile
Review by James Sallis
Italian Fever by Valerie Martin
Review by Lauren Henderson
Philadelphia Inquirer
Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns
Review by Susan Balee
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Review by Karen Heller
Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
Review by Marc Schogol
San Francisco Chronicle
The Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns
Review by Sunil Iyengar
Another World by Pat Barker
Review by Joyce McGinnis
Through the Windshield by Michael DeCapite
Review by Barbara Schultz
I Left My Back Door Open by April Sinclair
Review by Autumn Stephens
Makai by Kathleen Tyau
Review by David Cline
The Way People Run by Christopher Tilghman
Review by David Wiegand
The Art of the Lathe by B.H. Fairchild
Review by Allan M. Jalon
Overtime: Selected Poems by Philip Whalen
Review by Tom Clark
LA Times
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Review by Jonathan Levi
St.Louis Post Dispatch
True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Review by Peter Wolfe
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Friday June 25, 1999
New York Times
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Thursday June 24, 1999
New York Times
Andes Rising by James Munves
Review by Richard Eder
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Tuesday June 22, 1999
New York Times
True at First Light by Ernest Hemingway
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday June 20, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Review by Louis Menand
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Walace
Review by Adam Goodheart
Tough, Tough, Toys for Tough Tough Boys by Will Self
Review by Jonathan Lethem
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Review by Jim Shepard
The Dragon hunt: Five Stories by Tran Vu
Review by Francine Prose
The Ladies' Man by Elinor Lipman
Review by Anita Gates
Books in Brief:
A Celibate Season by Carol Shields and Blanche Howard
Review by Michael Porter
Circling the Drain: Stories by Amanda Davis
Review by Mary Elizabeth Williams
Heartbreaker by Robert Ferrigno
Review by Scott Veale
The Messenger by Mayra Montero
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman
Review by Dante Ramos
Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie
Review by Nina Sonenberg
Washington Post Book World
Music for Torching by A.M. Homes
Review by Michele Slung
A Vaudeville of Devils: 7 Moral Tales by Robert Girardi
Review by Kay Douglas
Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen
Review by Andrew O'Hehir
Collected Tales and Fantasies by Lord Berners
Review by Michael Dirda
San Francisco Chronicle
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Review by Henry Mayer
Close Range by Annie Proulx
Review by Cathryn Alpert
Nude in Tub by G.K. Wuori
Review by Chris Bohjalian
Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
Review by Tom Nolan
Philadelphia Inquirer
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Review by Ann Waldron
Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen
Review by Peter Landry
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Review by by Bill Kent
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Review by David Walton
LA Times
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Review by Eugen Weber
The Celestina: A Fifteenth Century Spanish Novel in Dialogue by
Fernando De Rojas
Review by Juan Goytisolo
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Friday June 18, 1999
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A God in Ruins by Leon Uris
Review by Harry Levins
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Sunday June 13, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Review by Stephen King
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
Review by Miranda Seymour
Layover by Lisa Zeidner
Review by Karen Karbo
Elementals by A.S. Byatt
Review by Fernando Eberstadt
Last Things by Jenny Offill
Review by Nancy Willard
Hadrian's Walls by Robert Draper
Review by Sara Mosle
The Nanny and the Iceberg by Ariel Dorfman
Review by Shashi Tharoor
Getting Used to Not Being Remarkable by Michael Foley
Review by David Sacks
Local Girls by Alice Hoffman
Review by Sarah Ferguson
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Review by Nicholas Christopher
Books in Brief:
King: A Street Story by John Berger
Review by Brigitte Frase
My Phantom Husband by Marie Darrieussecq
Review by Charles Flowers
Snow Man by Carolyn Chute
Review by Dwight Garner
Doors: Stories by William Hoffman
Review by Alanna Nash
Poachers by Tom Franklin
Review by Bruce Barcott
Washington Post Book World
The Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye
Review by Daniel McMahon
In September, the Light Changes: The Stories of Andrew Holleran
Review by Michael Dirda
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Poetry:
Elegy for the Southern Drawl by Rodney Jones
Winter Hours by Mary Oliver
Shells by Craig Arnold
Review by Allan Jalon
San Francisco Chronicle
The World and Other Places by Jeanette Winterson
Review by Sarah Van Arsdale
In September, the Light Changes by Andrew Holleran
Review by Jason Friedman
The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst
Review by David Wiegand
Lord of the Barnyard by Tristan Egolf
Review by Andrew Roe
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Palace by Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
Review by Edna Stumpf
LA Times
England, England by Julian Barnes
Review by Jonathan Levi
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Review by Kern Knapp Sawyer
Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison
Review by Rafia Zafar
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Review by Susan C. Hegger
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Thursday June 10, 1999
New York Times
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Wednesday June 9, 1999
New York Times
The Artist's Widow by Shena Mackay
Review by Richard Eder
Washington Post
Hannibal by Thomas Harris
Review by Jabari Asim
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Sunday June 6, 1999
New York Times Book Review
Iolani: or, Tahiti as it Was by Wilkie Collins
Review by James R. Kincaid
Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
Review by Carl Hiassen
The Orphan Game by Ann Darby
Review by Valerie Sayers
Me and the Fat Man by Julie Myerson
Review by Deborah Weisgall
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Review by Walter Satterthwait
Nude in Tub: Stories of Quillifarkeag, Maine by G.K. Wuori
Review by Chris Solomon
How Animals Mate: Stories by Daniel Mueller
Review by Nora Krug
A Tent in This World by William Fense Weaver
Review by Michael Caesar
Washington Post Book World
Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
Review by Nina King
Philadelphia Inquirer
Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen
Review by karen Heller
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Review by Shankar Vedantam
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Review by Dan DeLuca
San Francisco Chronicle
Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith
Review by Andrei Codrescu
Collecting Sins by Steven Sobel
Review by Jeanne Fay
Damascus by Richard Beard
Review by Michael Rosenthal
LA Times
First Fiction
Sinatraland by Sam Kashne
By the Shore by Galaxy Craze
Fleur de Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie
Hadrian's Walls by Robert Draper
Buxton Spice by Oonya Kempadoo
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries;
Music for Torching by A.M. Holmes
Who's Irish by Gish Jen
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Friday June 4, 1999
New York Times
Who's Irish by Gish Jen
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Another World by Pat Barker
Review by Carolyn See
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Thursday June 3, 1999
New York Times
Battle Creek by Scott Lasser
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Wednesday June 2, 1999
New York Times
Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
Review by Richard Eder
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Tuesday June 1, 1999
New York Times
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Fleur De Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie
Review by Wendy Law-Yone
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