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Sunday October 25, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Bech at Bay: A Quasi Novel by John Updike
Review by James Shapiro
Big Girls Don't Cry by Fay Weldon
Review by Elizabeth Gleick
Casanova in Love by Andrew Miller
Review by Lorna Sage
Leaving Earth by Helen Humphreys
Review by David Willis McCullough
My Year in the No-Man's-Bay by Peter Handke
Review by Lee Siegel
Big Fish by Daniel Wallace
Review by James Polk
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang
Review by Claire Messud
Friendly Fire by Kathryn Chetkovich
Review by Ross Feld
Paul Marchand, F.M.C. by Charles W. Chesnutt
Review by Arnold Rampersad
Breaking News by Robert MacNeil
Review by Eric Alterman
Silk and Insight by Yukio Michima
Review by Mark Morris
Books in Brief:
Radiance by John J. Clayton
Review by Patrick Farrell
The Loss by Vladimir Makanin
Review by Anderson Tepper
The Shade of Blossoms by Shohei Ooka
Review by David Galef
Tell Me Everything by Joyce Hinnefeld
Review by Jenny McPhee
A View From the Mangrove by Antonio Benitez-Rojo
Review by Barbara Fisher
Washington Post Book World
Plain and Normal by James Wilcox
Review by Elizabeth Ward
The Same Embrace by Michael Lowenthal
Review by Roberto Friedman
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Review by Bruce Cook
Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet
Review by Sanford Pinsker
The Scapegoat
The Fairy Gunmother by Daniel Pennac
Review by Dennis Drabelle
Complete Novels; Stories, Essays & Memoirs by Eudora Welty
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Hardcovers in Brief: Poetry
The Hammered Dulcimer by Lisa Williams
Review
Philadelphia Inquirer
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Review by Sanford Pinsker
Soft by Rupert Thompson
Review by Lionel Shriver
For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin
Review by Tim Warren
Model Behavior: A Novel and 7 Stories by Jay McInerney
Review by Dan DeLuca
San Francisco Chronicle
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Evening by Susan Minot
Review by David Wiegand
The Restraint of Beasts by Magnus Mills
Review by David Bowman
The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine
Review by Brenda Webster
The Rumi Collection. Translated by Robert Bly and Kabir Helminski
Review by Stephen Schwartz
LA Times
Discoveries:
Lost in Translation by Nicol Mones
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Wednesday October 21, 1998
New York Times
Ghost Town by Robert Coover
Review by Richard Bernstein
Washington Post
The Rum Diary by Hunter Thompson
Review by Jonathan Yardley
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Tuesday October 20, 1998
Washington Post
Armadillo by William Boyd
Review by David Nicholson
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Monday October 19, 1998
Washington Post
Pears on a Willow Tree by Leslie Pietrzyk
Review by Roland Merullo
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Sunday October 18, 1998
New York Times Book Review
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Trip Sheets by Ellen Hawley
Review by Dwight Garner
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
Review by Paul Kennedy
When Angels Rest by Donald Harington
Review by Scott Bradfield
The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry
Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
Torn From the Nest by Clorinda Matto de Turner
Review by Joanna O'Connell
Books in Brief:
Flights of Angels by Ellen Gilchrist
Review by Erica Sanders
Belong to Me by Kai Maristed
Review by Sally Eckoff
Surveyor by G. W. Hawkes
Review by Patrick Giles
The Catch by Kim Wozencraft
Review by James Polk
Lampshades by Carole Morin
Review by Michael Porter
The Foreign Student by Susan Choi
Review by Kimberley B. Marlowe
Washington Post Book World
Death in Summer by William Trevor
Review by Reeve Lindbergh
The Vampire Armand by Anne Rice
Review by Kevin Allman
Irrational Fears by William Browning Spencer
Review by Elizabeth Hand
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
Review by Bob Thompson
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt by Aimee Bender
Review by William Henry Lewis
Hunger: A Novella and Stories by Lan Samantha Chang
Review by Helen C. Wan
Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel by John Updike
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Philadelphia Inquirer
Two Cities by John Edgar Wideman
Review by V.R. Peterson
Death in Summer by William Trevor
Review by Peter Landry
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
Review by Susan Balee
Tomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien
Review by Robert Huber
San Francisco Chronicle
The Hundred Days by Patrick O'Brian
Review by Mary Ann Mariner
Bech at Bay by John Updike
Review by Mark Maxwell
Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston
Review by Joyce Irvine
Saltwater by Charles Simmons
Review by Allan M. Jalon
LA Times
Meeting with an Archangel by Stephen Mitchell
Review by Jonathan Kirsch
The Collected Poems of Robert Penn Warren
Review by Harold Bloom
Stories, Essays & Complete Novels by Eudora Welty
Review by Jenny Uglow
Cubana: Edited by Mirta Yanez
Turtle: Edited by Peter Bush
Review by Ann Louise Bardach
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Friday October 16, 1998
New York Times
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Thursday October 15, 1998
Washington Post
The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames
Review by Mary Kay Zuravleff
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Wednesday October 14, 1998
New York Times
Like Never Before by Ehud Havazelet
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Tuesday October 13, 1998
New York Times
Bech at Bay by John Updike
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday October 12, 1998
New York Times
The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Sunday October 11, 1998
New York Times Book Review
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Review by Robert Kelly
The Giant, O'Brien by Hilary Mantel
Review by Walter Kendrick
Evening by Susan Minot
Review by Roxana Robinson
The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine
Review by Barbara Kingsolver
The Ventriloquist's Tale by Pauline Melvile
Review by Jay Parini
Where She Went: Stories by Kate Walbert
Review by Molly Giles
The Odd Last Thing She Did: Poems by Brad Leithauser
Review by Adam Kirsch
Lenoir by Ken Greenhall
Review by Michael Pye
Waltzing the Cat by Pam Houston
Review by Karen Karbo
Books in Brief:
Love is a Racket by John Ridley
Review by Mark Lindquist
The Loop by Nicholas Evans
Review by Erik Burns
The Angel of Galilea by Laura Restrepo
Review by James Polk
The Girl in the Photograph by Gabrielle Donnelly
Review by Kimberley B. Marlowe
Fetish Lives by Gail Jones
Review by Nora Krug
Washington Post
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Review by Jane Smiley
By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
Review by Debra Dickerson
The Avram Davidson Treasury. Edited by Robert Silverberg and Grania
Davis
Review by Michael Dirda
Faraday's Popcorn Factory by Sandra Lee Gould
Review by Holly Bass
Philadelphia Inquirer
Revere Beach Boulevard by Roland Merullo
Review by James Polk
San Francisco Chronicle
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Review by Michael Sragow
By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
Review by Kristina Azrlengo
A Song of Stone by Iain Banks
Review by Carey Harrison
No Physical Evidence by Gus Lee
Review by Marc Igler
The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill
Review by Tom Clark
LA Times
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Review by Richard Eder
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Tuesday October 6, 1998
New York Times
I Married a Communist by Philip Roth
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday October 4, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Eucalyptus by Murray Bail
Review by Michael Upchurch
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Review by Andrew Miller
Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell
Review by Valerie Sayers
Two Cities by John Edgar Wideman
Review by Walter Mosley
Gone for Good by Mark Childress
Review by Julia Reed
By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
Review by Francine Prose
My Sister from the Black Lagoon: A Novel of My Life
by Laurie Fox
Review by Valerie Frankel
Pears on a Willow Tree by Leslie Pietrzyk
Review by Ann Harleman
Ahmed's Revenge by Richard Wiley
Review by William J. Cobb
Sweet Water by Kathryn Kramer
Review by Barbara Fisher
Books in Brief:
Inheritance by Keith Baker
Review by Erik Burns
Meetings with an Archangel by Stephen Mitchell
Review by David Guy
Sappho by Nancy Freedman
Review by Gloria Rohmann
Vanitas by Joseph Olshan
Review by Philip Gambone
Sometimes the Soul: Two Novellas of Sicily by Gioia Timpanelli
Review by Nora Krug
The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames
Review by Stephanie Zacharek
Washington Post Book World
The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat
Review by Jacqueline Brice-Finch
Song of Night by Glenville Lovell
Review by K. Alease Dilday
Two Cities by John Edgar Wideman
Review by Clarence Major
Revere Beach Boulevard: Book One of the Revere Beach Trilogy
by Roland Merullo
Review by Joan Smith
San Francisco Chronicle
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Review by Michael Upchurch
All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
Review by Mark Maxwell
Flight of Angels by Ellen Gilchrist
Review by Jennie Yabroff
Philadelphia Inquirer
All of Us: The Collected Poems by Raymond Carver
Review by Dan DeLuca
By the Light of My Father's Smile by Alice Walker
Review by Farah Jasmine Griffin
On Love: Poems by Edward Hirsch
Blizzard of One: Poems by Mark Strand
Lost Wax: Poems by Heather Ramsdell
Review by Daisy Fried
LA Times
The Evolution of Jane by Cathleen Schine
Review by Richard Eder
First Fiction:
Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
Luminous Mysteries by John Holman
Like by Ali Smith
The Farm She Was by Ann Mohin
Review by Mark Rozzo
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