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Wednesday April 29, 1998 New York Times The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday April 26, 1998 New York Times Book Review Damascus Gate by Robert Stone Review by Jonathan Rosen Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk Review by Annette Kobak Holding Out by Anne O. Faulk Review by Jenny Lyn Bader The Archivist by Martha Cooley Review by Brian Morton The Page Turner by David Leavitt Review by Elizabeth Gleick Aaron, Approximately by Zachary Lazar Review by William J. Cobb Shroud of the Gnome: Poems by James Tate Review by Adam Kirsch Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Ellis Review by Katharine Weber Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site by Susan Eisenberg Review by Samuel C. Florman Books in Brief: Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton Review by Megan Harlan Skull Lesson by Daniel Hecht Review by Charles Salzberg Rose's Garden by Carrie Brown Review by Ruth Coughlin Still Live by Natsuki Ikezawa Review by Patrick Giles Hungry by Joanna Torrey Review by Paula Friedman A Real Good War by Sam Halpert Review by Peter Bricklebank Washington Post Book World Tales of the Night by Peter Hoeg Review by Katherine Dunn The Rich Man's Table by Scott Spencer Review by Rachel Hartigan Degrees of Love by Rachel Basch Review by Wendy Law-Yone Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Review by Elizabeth Ward Philadelphia Inquirer The Castle: A new translation by Franz Kafka Review by Harold L. Brubaker A Timbered Choir The Sabbath Poems 1979-1997 by Wencell Bery Review by J.T. Barbarese Cavedweller by Dorothy Allison Review by Maggie Galehouse San Francisco Chronicle The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker Review by Michael Upchurch Ghost Country by Sara Paretsky Review by Rebecca Radner The House of Sleep by Jonathan Coe Review by Carey Harrison Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price Review by David Wiegand Without by Donald Hall Review by Tom Clark In a Dark Wood by Michael Cadnum Review by Alix Madrigal LA Times Spending by Mary Gordon Review by Heller McAlpin The Men of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor Review by Richard Eder Sunday April 19, 1998 New York Times Book Review A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler Review by Carol Shields The Men Of Brewster Place by Gloria Naylor Review by Roy Hoffman Brain Storm by Richard Dooling Review by Colin Harrison Election by Tom Perrotta Review by Peter Lasalle Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina Review by Paul Baumann Karoo by Steve Tesich Review by Bill Kent Why the Tree Loves the Ax by Jim Lewis Review by Sarah Ferguson Books in Brief: Listening Now by Anjana Appachana Review by Anderson Tepper The Earth and the Sky by Debbie Lee Wesselmann Review by Andy Solomon Pandora by Anne Rice Review by Patrick Giles So Far Gone by Paul Cody Review by Charles Salzberg California Time by Ernest J. Finney Review by Megan Harlan Washington Post Book World The Dower House by Annabel Davis-Gogg Review by Thomas Mallon In Sunshine or in Shadow: Stories by Irish Women Cabbage and Bones: An Anthology of Irish Women's Fiction Review by Elizabeth Ward This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann Review by Ambrose Clancy I Could Read the Sky by Timothy O'Grady Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey One Day as a Tiger by Anne Haverty Review by Susan Dooley Philadelphia Inquirer Poems New and Collected 1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska Review by Merilyn Oniszczuk Jackson Requiem for Harlem by Henry Roth Review by Paula Freidman The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton Review by Joan Mellen San Francisco Chronicle Dreamer by Charles Johnson Review by Patricia Holt Identity by MIlan Kundera Review by Carey Harrison God is My Broken by Brother Ty and Christopher Buckley Review by Alix Madrigal The Page Turner by David Leavitt Review by Dan Levy The Healing by Gayl Jones Review by Linda Raymond LA Times A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler Review by Richard Eder Ten Commandments: Poems by J.D. McClatchy Review by Edmund White Friday, April 17, 1998 New York Times A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler Review by Michiko Kakutani Washington Post The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez Reverte Review by Carolyn See Thursday, April 16, 1998 Washington Post Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina Review by Susan Osborn Sunday, April 12, 1998 New York Times Book Review The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich Review by Diana Postlethwaite Nosferatu by Jim Shepard Review by Leslie Epstein Quarantine by Jim Crace Review by Frank Kermode Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland Review by Laura Miller The Rich Man's Table by Scott Spencer Review by Gary Krist Books in Brief: In the Land of Plenty by Tim Pears Review by Barbara Quick Singing in the Comeback Choir by Bebe Moore Campbell Review by Betsy Groban A Good Doctor's Son by Steven Schwarz Review by Claire Messud Night of Many Dreams by Gail Tsukiyama Review by Bill Kent This Never Happened by E.W. Summers Review by Zofia Smardz An Underachiever's Diary by Benjamin Anastas Review by James Polk Washington Post Book World Dreamer by Charles Johnson Review by Jabari Asim God is My Broker by Brother Ty with Christopher Buckley and John Tierney Review by David Segal Blue Bossa by Bart Schneider Review by Louis Bayard The Half-Life of Happiness by John Casey Review by Sven Birkerts The All-True Travels and Adventure of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley Review by Susan Dodd Philadelphia Inquirer The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley Review by Denise Gess Children of God by Mary Doria Russell Review by Ed Voves This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann Review by Lise Funderburg San Francisco Chronicle A Patchwork Planet by Ann Tyler Goodnight Nebraska by Tom McNeal Review by Brad Newsham Quarantine by Jim Crace Review by Carey Harrison Girl in Landscape by Jonathan Lethem Review by Andy Solomon Persian Brides by Dorit Rabinyan Review by Sheri Hallgren Life & Death by Robert Creeley Review by Tom Clark LA Times Quarantine by Jim Crace Review by Richard Eder Friday, April 10, 1998 Washington Post Karoo by Steve Tesich Review by Carolyn See Wednesday, April 8, 1998 New York Times Dreamer by Charles Johnson Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday, April 5, 1998 New York Times Book Review This Side of Brightness by Colum McCann Review by David Willis McCullough The Half-Life of Happiness by John Casey Review by Lorna Sage The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton By Jane Smiley Review by Thomas Mallon Dreamer by Charles Johnson Review by Dennis McFarland Requiem for Harlem: Volume 4 of Mercy of a Rude Stream by Henry Roth Review by Allegra Goodman Afrolantica Legacies by Derrick Bell Review by Niel A. Lewis Possesions by Julia Kristeva Review by Mark Edmundson Books in Brief: Mangrove Squeeze by Lawrence Shames Review by Scott Veale Mercy Road by Dalia Pagani Review by Martha E. Stone The Edge of Heaven by Marita Golden Review by Janet Kaye Dreams of Quivira: Stories in Search of the Golden West by Robert Franklin Gish Review by Kimberley B. Marlowe The Woman With the Flying Head and Other Stories by Yumiko Kurahashi Review by Gardner McFall Washington Post Book World Cavedweller by Dorothy Alison Review by Roxana Robinson Nosferatu by Jim Shepard Review by Dennis Drabelle The Archivist by Martha Cooley Review by Steven Moore Poems New and Collected by Wislawa Szymborska Review by Adam Kirsch Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler: Poems by Thylias Moss Persea Review by Jabari Asim A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright Review by Martin Morse Wooster Philadelphia Inquirer Quarantine by Jim Crace Review by Peter Landry Herb's Pajamas by Abigail Thomas Review by Paul Bennett San Francisco Chronicle Oyster by Janette Turner Hospital Review by Sarah Williams Doctor Faustus by Thomas Mann. Translated by John E. Woods Review by Kenneth Baker The Castle by Franz Kafka Translated by Mark Harman Review by Roz Spafford No Lease on Life by Lynne Tillman Review by Audrey Ferber Children of God by Mary Doria Russell Review by Carey Harrison LA Times Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk Review by Richard Eder The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley Review by Heller McAlpin Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland Review by Cara Mia Di Massa Friday, April 3, 1998 New York Times An Instance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears Review by Richard Bernstein Washington Post Making History by Stephen Fry Review by Carolyn See Thursday April 2, 1998 New York Times The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Washington Post Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland Review by Paul Di Filippo March List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site