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Wednesday April 29, 1998
New York Times
The Life of Insects by Victor Pelevin
Review by Richard Bernstein
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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
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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
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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
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Thursday, April 16, 1998
Washington Post
Saints and Villains by Denise Giardina
Review by Susan Osborn
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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
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Friday, April 10, 1998
Washington Post
Karoo by Steve Tesich
Review by Carolyn See
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Wednesday, April 8, 1998
New York Times
Dreamer by Charles Johnson
Review by Richard Bernstein
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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
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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
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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
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