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Sunday August 30, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
Review by Daphne Merkin
Gertrude of Stony Island Avenue by James Purdy
Review by Bruce Bawer
And Both Shall Row: A Novella and Stories by Beth Lordan
Review by Robert Houston
The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
Review by Fernanda Eberstadt
Books in Brief:
Memories of My Father Watching TV by Curtis White
Review by William Ferguson
Dream Children by A.N. Wilson
Review by Michal Porter
Caveat by Laura Kalpakian
Review by Kimberly B. Marlowe
The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Review by Linda Barrett Osborne
Washington Post Book World
The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
Review by John Banville
The Loop by Nicholas Evans
Review by Craig Nova
Riptide by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Review by Tim Sullivan
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Philadelphia Inquirer
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
Review by Karen Heller
Once Upon the River of Love by Andrei Makine
Review by James Polk
The Best Defense by Ellis Cose
Review by N. Graham Nesmith
San Francisco Chronicle
Like Being Killed by Ellen Miller
Review by Melissa Levine
Poems of Fernando Pessoa: Translated and Edited by Edwin Honig and
Susan M. Brown
Review by Geoff Dyer
Too Cool by Duff Branna
Review by John Perry
Saratoga Strongbox by Stephen Dobyns
Review by Oscar C. Villalon
The Angel Max by Peter Glassgold
Review by Ted Gioia
The Baker by Paul Hond
Review by Robert Ward
The Iron Bridge by David Morse
Review by Ernest Callenbach
LA Times
The Foreign Student by Susan Choi
Review by Richard Eder
The Stillest Day by Josephine Hart
Ghost Town by Robert Coover
Birds of America: Stories by Lorrie Moore
Belong to Me: Stories by Kai Maristead
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Sunday August 23, 1998
New York Times Book Review
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt : Stories by Aimee Bender
Review by Lisa Zeidner
The World I Made For Her by Thomas Moran
Review by Michael Upchurch
Vast Emotions and Imperfect Thoughts by Rubem Fonseca
Review by James Polk
The Farm She Was by Ann Mohin
Review by Sally Eckoff
Books in Brief:
Nike by Nicholas Flokos
Review by Gloria Rohmann
The Lake Dreams the Sky by Swain Wolfe
Review by Paula Friedman
The Story of Tonle by Mario Rigoni Stern
Review by Jenny McPhee
The Conspiracy of Tall Men by Noah Hawley
Review by Emily Barton
Almost Home by T.M. McNally
Review by Edie Jarolim
Storm Tide by Marge Piercy and Ita Wood
Review by Ruth Goughlin
San Francisco Chronicle
For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin
Review by David Wiegland
Blues for Hannah by Tim Farrington
Review by James Sullivan
The Store of a Million Items by Michelle Cliff
Review by Autumn Stephens
Presidential Deal by Les Standiford
Review by Andy Solomon
Lucky Bastard by Chrales McCarry
Review by Dan Froomkin
Picnic, Lightning by Billy Collins
Review by Tom Clark
The Bird Catcher by Marie Ponsot
Review by Allan M. Jalon
Ahmed's Revenge by Richard Wiley
Review by Michael Upchurch
Washington Post Book World
The Gunrunner's Daughter by Neil Gordon
Review by Chris Bohjalian
Looking for Mo? by Daniel Duane
Review by Charles W. Wilson
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carnival Wolves by Peter Rock
Review by Harriette Behringer
The Mourner's Bench by Susan Dodd
Review by Garret Condon
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
Review by Pia Nordlinger
The Knife Throwers and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser
Review by Michael L. Rozansky
LA Times
The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
Review by Richard Eder
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Friday August 21, 1998
New York Times
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi
Review by Carolyn See
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Monday August 17, 1998
LA Times
The Silver Castle by Clive James
Review by Jonathan Levi
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Sunday August 16, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Lucky Bastard by Charles McCarry
Review by John Tierney
Love and Terror by Alan Jolis
Review by Hilary Mantel
Ingratitude by Ying Chen
Review by Elizabeth Schmidt
Icy Sparks by Gwyn Hyman Rubio
Review by Tara Bayton
The Mourner's Bench by Susan Dodd
Review by Elizabeth Graver
Books in Brief:
The Store of a Million Items by Michelle Cliff
Review by Megan Harlan
One-Thousand and One-Second Stories by Taruho Inagaki
Review by David Guy
Murder at the Watergate by Margaret Truman
Review by Charles Salzberg
Dog Star by Josephine Carson
Review by Peter Bricklebank
Blood Money by Clive Egleton
Review by David Murray
San Francisco Chronicle
While Other People Sleep by Marcia Muller
Review by Marc Igler
The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
Review by Joyce Irvine
Firebird by Janice Graham
Review by Lisa Jensen
Giuseppe Rocco by Ronald L. Ruiz
Review by Jeanne Cooper
Washington Post Book World
Power by Linda Hogan
Review by Lise Funderburg Revie
The Lost Tribe by Mark Lee
Review by Louis Bayard
Cupid and Diana by Christina Bartolomeo
Review by Liesl Schillinger
Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman
Review by Sanford Pinsker
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
Review by Julia MacDonnell
The Last Full Measure by Jeff Shaara
Review by Desmond Ryan
Nike: A Romance by Nicholas Flokos
Review by Merilyn Jackson
The Undiscovered Country by Samantha Gillison
Review by Dianna Marder
LA Times
The Silver Castle by Clive James
Review by Jonathan Levi
Charity: Stories by Mark Richard
Sweet Water by Kathryn Kramer
Misadventures in the (213) by Dennis Hensley
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Thursday August 13, 1998
New York Times
Full Dress Gray by Lucian Truscott IV
Review by Maureen Corrigan
Washington Post
Misadventures in the (213) by Dennis Hensley
Review by Carolyn Ruff
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Sunday August 9, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Midnight Magic: Selected Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
Review by Michael Gorra
The One Facing Us by Ronit Matalon
Review by Elizabeth Gleick
Bertrams Cope's Year by Henry Blake Fuller
Review by Joel Conarroe
The Engrafted Word: Poems by Karl Kirchwey
Review by Mary Jo Salter
Crane Spreads Wings: A Bigamist's Story by Susan Trott
Review by Edward Hower
The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken
Review by Jane Vandenburgh
Books in Brief:
The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Niam
Review by Michael Lowenthal
Talk by Laura Van Wormer
Review by Lynn Karpen
One Thousand Chestnut Trees by Mira Stout
Review by Philip Gambone
Name the Baby by Mark Cirino
Review by Valerie Steiker
The Paris Years of Rosie Kamin by Richard Teleky
Review by Janet Kaye
Oh,Jackie by Maudy Benz
Review by Sally Eckhoff
Washington Post Book World
Dreamer by Jack Butler
Review by Kevin Allman
Silk and Insight by Yukio Mishima
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Philadelphia Inquirer
Point of Origin by Patricia Cornwell
Review by David Delman
San Francisco Chronicle
Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
Review by Melanie Haiken
In the Night Season by Richard Bausch
Review by Beverley Langer
The Extra Man by Jonathan Ames
Review by David Marc Fisher
The World I Made for Her by Thomas Moran
Review by Kristina Zarlengo
LA TImes
Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil
Review by Paula Friedman
Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine
Review by Carolyn See
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Tuesday August 4, 1998
New York Times
Dream Children by A.N. Wilson
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday August 2, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Dusk by F. Siomil Jose
Review by Frank Gibney
The Way I found Her by Rose Tremain
Review by Claire Messud
Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass
Review by James McManus
If I Don't Six by Elwood Reid
Review by Ira Berkow
The Black Flower: A Novel of the Civil War by Howard Bahr
Review by Robert Wilson
Books in Brief:
Boyne's Lassie by Dick Wimmer
Review by Erik Burns
Hometown Brew by Ellen Akins
Review by Julie Gray
Rock'n'Roll Babes From Outer Space by Linda Jaivin
Review by Sally Eckoff
Children of Clay by Raymond Queneau
Review by William Ferguson
Eating Fire and Drinking Water by Arlene J. Chai
Review by Anderson Tepper
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
Review by Megan Harlan
Washington Post Book World
One Thousand Chestnut Trees: A Novel of Korea by Mira Stout
Review by Michael Stephens
The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Review by Rachel Hartigan
Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
Review by Elizabeth Hand
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
San Francisco Chronicle
Once Upon a River of Love by Andrei Makine
Review by Michael Upchurch
Children of Clay by Raymond Queneau
Review by Carey Harrison
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
Review by Melissa Levine
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Review by Michael Berry
The Priest Fainted by Catherine Temma Davidson
Review by Lisa Kahaleole Hall
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mrs. Einstein by Anna McGrail
Review by Daisy Fried
LA Times
The Eleventh Commandment by Jeffrey Archer
Review by R. Hunter Garcia
The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories by Aimee Bender
Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering
Stigmata by Phyllis Alesia Perry
The Buddha in Malibu by William Harrison
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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