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Sunday May 30, 1999
New York Times Book Review
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Review by John Crowley
Music for Torching by A. M. Homes
Review by Gary Krist
Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith by Gina B. Nahai
Review by Edward Hower
The Girls' Guide to Hunting and Fishing by Melissa Bank
Review by Courtney Weaver
Washington Post Book World
The Book of Kings by James Thackara
Review by Gregory Feeley
The Sopranos by Alan Warner
Review by Simon Reynolds
The Spell by Alan Hollinghurst
Review by Louis Bayard
House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus
Review by John Katzenbach
Philadelphia Inquirer
Manly Pursuits by Ann Harris
Review by David Walton
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Elementals by A.S. Byatt
Review by Gregory Feeley
A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
Review by Peter Landry
Red Gold by Alan Furst
Review by Richard Fuller
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Review by Michael Harrington
San Francisco Chronicle
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Review by John Perry
Jackstraws by Charles Simic
Review by Tom Clark
Fleur De Leigh's Life of Crime by Diane Leslie
Review by Sunil Iyengar
Intimacy by Hanif Kureishi
Review by Carey Harrison
Fredy Neptune: A Novel in Verse by Les Murray
Review by Garrett Caples
Surrender, Dorothy by Meg Wolitzer
Review by John Perry
LA Times
The Book of Kings by James Thackara
Review by Eugen Weber
Sicilian Carousel by Lawrence Durrell
Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily by Gioia Timpanelli
Midnight in Sicily by Peter Robb
Review by George Armstrong
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Red Gold by Alan Furst
Review by William Curran
England, Engalnd by Julian Barnes
Review by Peter Wolfe
Sunday May 23, 1999
New York Times
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Review by Richard Eder
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Review by Dwight Garner
The Drowning People by Richard Mason
Review by Tobin Harshaw
Love in a Dead Langauge by Lee Siegel
Review by Tom Leclair
The Migration of Ghosts by Pauline Melville
Review by Diana Postlewaite
Books In Brief:
In the Drink by Kate Christensen
Review by Vanessa Grigoriadis
Roger Fishbite by Emily Prager
Review by Andrea Higbie
Manly Pursuits by Ann Harries
Review by Gretchen Holdbrook Gerzina
Land of Many Colors and Nanna-Ya by Maryse Conde
Review by James Polk
The Scoundrel by Stephan Jaramillo
Review by Jon Garelick
Washington Post Book World
The Book of Happiness by Nina Berberova
Review by Marian Schwartz
Men Behaving Badly by Susan Hubbard
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
The Night Inspector by Frederick Busch
Review by Sudip Bose
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys by Will Self
Review by Liesl Schillinger
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Philadelphia Inquirer
A Corner of the Veil by Laurence Cosse
Review by Carlin Romano
Signs and Wonders by Melvin James Bukiet
Review by Justin Cronin
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Review by Peter Rock
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The Call of Pope Octavian by William b. Faherty
Review by Charles Guenther
San Francisco Chronicle
King by John Berger
Review by Nell Bernstein
Timbuktu by Paul Auster
Review by Oscar Villalon
England, England by Julian Barnes
Review by David Wiegand
An Equal Music by Vikram Seth
Review by Erik Tarloff
The Book of Kings by James Thackara
Review by Carey Harrison
Out of the Woods by Chris Offut
Review by Daniel Orozco
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Ann Marlowe
Little Green Men by Christopher Buckley
Review by Steve Kettmann
Breaking News by Robert MacNeil
Purple Dots by Jim Lehrer
Review by Bob Pierpont
LA Times
Discoveries
The Way People Run by Christopher Tilghman
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys by Will Self
The Things We Used to Say by Natalia Ginzburg
Homestead by Rosina Lippi
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Friday May 21, 1999
New York Times
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Guys by Will Self
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Sunday May 16, 1999
New York Times
Another World by Pat Barker
Review by Barry Unsworth
The White Bone by Barbara Gowdy
Review by Sarah Boxer
30 Pieces of a Novel;
Sleep: Stories by Stephen Dixon
Review by Vince Passaro
Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen
Review by Po Bronson
Fredy Neptune by Les Murray
Review by Ruth Padel
Spinner by Anthony McCaarten
Review by David Finkle
City of Light by Lauren Belfer
Review by Ellen Feldman
Books in Brief:
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King
Review by Andrew Essex
Coast to Coast by Frederic Raphaael
Review by Brigitte Frase
The Tragic Menagerie by Lydia Zinovieva-Annibal
Review by William Ferguson
Dating Miss Universe: Stories by Steven Polansky
Review by Beth Wolfensberger Singer
Lamb in Love by Carrie Brown
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
Washington Post
A Prayer for the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
Review by Peter McCarthy
Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen
Review by Dennis Drabelle
Philadelphia Inquirer
Paris Trance by Geoff Dyer
Review by Brian Leighton
San Francisco Chronicle
Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace
Review by Daniel Orozco
Music for Torching by A.M. Homes
Review by Sarah Saffian
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys by Will Self
Review by Carey Harrison
Vittorio, the Vampire by Anne Rice
Review by Dodie Bellamy
Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen
Review by Tony Mastrogiorgio
Chocolat by Joanne Harris
Review by William Rodamor
LA Times
Return of Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Review by Allen Barra
The Dragon Hunt by Tran Vu
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Review by Susan C. Thomson
Turn of the Century by Kurt Andersen
Review by Dale Singer
Sunday May 9, 1999
New York Times Book Review
The Best American Short Stories of the Century: Edited by John
Updike and Kaytrina Kenison
Review by Michael Gorra
The Return of the Little Big Man by Thomas Berger
Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg
East of the Mountains by David Guterson
Review by Robert Sullivan
England, England by Julian Barnes
Review by Richard Eder
Homestead by Rosina Lippi
Review by Brigitte Frase
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Alfred Corn
The Idealists by Henry Carlisle aand Olga Andreyev Carlisle
Review by Serge Schmemann
Dailies & Rushes by Susan Kinsolving
Review by Carol Muske
Carter Clay by Elizabeth Evans
Review by Suzanne Berne
Spiderweb by Penelope Lively
Review by Margot Livesy
Book in Brief:
Bad Judgment: Poems by Cathleen Calbert
Review by Stephanie Zacharek
The Self-Made Brain Surgeon and Other Stories by Mark Harris
Review by David L. Ulin
The Marching Season by Daniel Silva
Review by Edward Neuert
The Late Mr. Shakespeare by Robert Nye
Review by Allen Lincoln
Chekhov: The Comic Stories
Review by Philip Gambone
Washington Post Book World
Black Light by Elizabeth Hand
Review by Douglas E. Winter
The Last Continent by Terry Pratchett
Review by Kay Douglas
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Review by John Schwartz
An Equal Music by Virkram Seth
Review by Michael Dirda
Philadelphia Inquirer
Close Range: Wyoming Stories by Annie Proulx
Review by Lionel Shriver
The Way People Run by Christopher Tilghman
Review by Susan Miron
Tara Road by Maeve Binchy
Review by Harriette Behringer
San Francisco Chronicle
Other People's Children by Joanna Trollope
Review by Caitlin Flanagan
Death & Fame: Last Poems 1993-1997 by Allen Ginsberg
Review by Steve Silberman
The Basic Eight by Daniel Handler
Review by Nell Bernstein
By the Shore by Galaxy Craze
Review by David Wiegand
LA Times
East of the Mountains by David Guterson
Review by Jonathan Levi
Discoveries
Snow by Carolyn Chute
Arithmetic by Todd McEwen
Close Range by Annie Proulx
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
Wednesday May 5, 1999
New York Times
Human Voices by Penelope Fitzgerald
Review by Richard Eder
Tuesday May 4, 1999
New York Times
Another World by Pat Barker
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
The Broken Hearts Club by Ethan Black
Review by Ranald Totten
Monday, May 3, 1999
New York Times
A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Washington Post
Abide With Me by E. Lynn Harris
Review by Brian Gilmore
Sunday May 2, 1999
New York Times
A Prayer For the Dying by Stewart O'Nan
Review by Patrick McGrath
The Book of Kings by James Thackara
Review by Richard Eder
Breath and Shadows by Ella Leffland
Review by Brooks Hansen
A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
Review by James McManus
Famous After Death by Benjamin Cheever
Review by David Finkle
Finbar's Hotel by Dermot Bolger, Roddy Doyle, and Others
Review by Katharine Weber
Books in Brief:
Haunted Traveller by Barry Yourgrau
Review by Jonathan Miles
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Review by Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Driving the Heart and Other Stories by Jason Brown
Review by Jenifer Berman
The Green by Troon McAllister
Review by Bill Vourvoulias
Swimming With Jonah by Audrey Schulman
Review by Laura Green
Washington Post Book World
East of the Mountains by David Guterson
Review by Rozanna Robinson
Elementals: Stories of Fire and Ice by A.S. Byatt
Review by Dennis Drabelle
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Sabbathday River by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Review by Edna Stumpf
Spiderweb by Penelope Lively
Review by Jocelyn McClurg
San Francisco Chronicle
The Sopranos by Alan Warner
Review by Sarah Coleman
A Dangerous Friend by Ward Just
Review by David Bowman
The Climate of the Country by Marnie Mueller
Review by Tara Ison
The Pathology of Lies by Jonathan Keats
Review by Jeanne Fay
Paradise Farm by Brenda Webster
Review by Brenda Webster
Fluke by Martin Blinder
Review by Carl Sferrazza
LA Times
The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie
Review by Jonathan Levi
Werewolves in Their Youth by Michael Chabon
Review by Michael Carroll
First Fiction
Last Things by Jenny Offill
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Chocolate Lizards by Cole Thompson
The Woman in the Yard by Stephen Miller
A Good Day to Die by James Coltrane
Review by Mark Rozzo
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bone by Bone by Peter Matthiessen
Review by Peter Wolfe
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