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Monday July 27, 1998
New York Times
Too Cool by Duff Brenna
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Sunday July 26, 1998
New York Times
The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald
Review by Roberta Silman
This is My Daughter by Roxana Robinson
Review by Diana Postlethwaite
Thirst by Ken Kalfus
Review by Ron Carlson
The Black Brook by Tom Drury
Review by Luc Sante
Cordelia Underwood: Or the Marvelous Beginnings of the Moosepath
League
by Van Reid
Review by Kit Reed
The Exes by Pagan Kennedy
Review by Stephen J. Dubner
Dog Days by Daniel Lyons
Review by J.D. Biersdorfer
Books in Brief:
Ghost Children by Sue Townsend
Review by Allen Lincoln
Days of Our Lives Lie in Fragments: New and Old Poems, 1957-1997
by George Garrett
Review by Garner McFall
My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
Review by Lisa Funderburg
Calvert Casey: the Collected Stories by Calvert Casey
Review by James Polk
Koolaids by Rabih Alameddine
Review by Mark Lindquist
Articles of Faith by Robert L. Rudin
Review by Andy Solomon
San Francisco Chronicle
A Crowded Heart by Nicholas Papandreou
Review by Catherine Temma Davidson
Misadventures in the (213) by Dennis Hensley
Review by Brian Gunn
This is My Daughter by Roxana Robinson
Review by Melissa Levine
A Conspiracy of Tall Men by Noah Hawley
Review by Marc Igler
nixoncarver by Mark Maxwell
Review by Robert Gluck
I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
Review by Erika Taylor
Washington Post Book World
Mrs. Einstein by Anna McGrail
Review by Jay Parini
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
Review by John Derbyshire
Philadelphia Inquirer
Turnip Blues by Helen Campbell
Review by Susan Balee
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
Antarctica by Kim Stanley Robinson
Review by Gregory Feeley
The Iron Bridge by David Morse
Review by Gregory Frost
The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga
Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon
LA Times
My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Jeff Turrentine
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Sunday July 19, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Secrets by Nuriddin Farah
Review by George Packer
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Review by Zia Jaffrey
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
Review by Kathryn Harrison
The Boy by Naeem Murr
Review by Margot Livesey
Penn Greek Drama Series
Review by Daniel Mendelsohn
Going East: Poems by Frederick Seidel
Review by Melanie Rehak
Final Vinyl Days: And Other Stories by Jill McCorkle
Review by Meg Wolitzer
The Inn at Lake Devine by Elinor Lipman
Review by Lore Dickstein
Books in Brief:
Weird Women, Wired Women by Kit Reed
Review by Enid Shomer
Lambs of God by Marele Day
Review by Julie Gray
Dreamer by Jack Butler
Review by Bill Hayes
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Review by Ruth Coughlin
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon by Richard Zimler
Review by Erik Burns
Justine by Alice Thompson
Review by Jennifer Kornreich
Washington Post Book World
Apples From the Desert: Selected Stories by Savyon Liebrecht
Review by Beryl Lieff Benderly
Strachey's Folly by Richard Stevenson
Review by Carolyn Banks
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Philadelphia Inquirer
Gain by Richard Powers
Review by Gregory Feeley
Gone for Good by Mark Childress
Review by Roger Catlin
The Exes by Pagan Kennedy
Review by Paula Friedman
The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer
Review by James Held
Dreamer by Charles Johnson
Review by Farah Jasmine Griffin
Secrets by Nurrudin Farah
Review by T. Obinkaram Echewa
San Francisco Chronicle
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
Review by Sarah Coleman
The Girl in the Flammable Suit by Aimee Bender
Review by Carol Lloyd
The Flower in the Skull by Kathleen Alcala
Review by Melissa Levine
LA Times
Talking to the Dead and
Your Blue-Eyed Boy by Helen Dumore
Review by Phyllis Richardson
Object of Your Love: Stories by Dorothy Speak
The Nightbird Cantata by Donald Rawley
A German Picturesque by Jason Schwartz
Ahmed's Revenge by Richard Wiley
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Wednesday July 15, 1998
New York Times
Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Monday July 13, 1998
New York Times
Lucky Bastard by Charles McGarry
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Sunday July 12, 1998
New York Times Book Review
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
Review by Francine Prose
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
Review by Janet Burroway
Missing Women and Others: Stories by June Spence
Review by Laura Miller
Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
Review by Jamie James
Cocaine Nights by J.G. Ballard
Review by A. O. Scott
The Dumb House: A Chamber Novel by John Burnside
Review by James Saynor
Cupid and Diana by Chrisina Bartolomeo
Review by Valerie Frankel
Vain Empires: Poems by William Logan
Review by Henry Taylor
Fear by Simon Lane
Review by Tobin Harshaw
Quite a Year for Plums by Bailey White
Review by Tom Drury
Books in Brief:
Defiance by Carole Maso
Review by Patrick Farrell
The Overseer by Jonathan Rabb
Review by Charles Salzberg
Mrs. Einstein by Anna McGrail
Review by Willaim Ferguson
The Buddha in Malibu by William Harrison
Review by Paula Freidman
The Sinoloa Story by Barry Gifford
Review by Anthony Bourdain
Washington Post Book World
Ghost Country by Sara Paretsky
Review by Grace Lichtenstein
On the Occasion of My Last Afternoon by Kaye Gibbons
Review by Susan Dood
This is My Daughter by Roxanna Robinson
Review by Susan Goodman
Lucky Bastard by Charles McGarry
Review by Jonathan Yardley
San Francisco Chronicle
Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass
Review by Michale Barnard
Final Vinyl by Jill McCorkle
Review by Courtney Weaver
Inhuman Beings by Jerry Jay Carroll
Review by Andy Solomon
LA Times
A World Away by Stewart O'Nan
Review by Richard Eder
I Know This Much is True by Wally lamb
Review by Jean Hanff Korelitz
Philadelphia Inquirer
Park City, New and Selected Stories by Ann Beattie
Review by Roland Kelts
Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
Review by David Walton
Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke
Review by David Delman
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Tuesday July 7, 1998
New York Times
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Review by Michiko Kakutani
Washington Post
Where the Sea Used to Be by Rick Bass
Review by David Nicholson
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Monday July 6, 1998
New York Times
The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
Review by Richard Bernstein
Washington Post
Kalimantaan by C.S. Godshalk
Review by Wendy Orent
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Sunday July 5, 1998
New York Times Book Review
My Heart Laid Bare by Joyce Carol Oates
Review by Sarah Kerr
Salvation and Other Disasters: Short Stores by Josip Novakovich
Review by William Cobb
Gettin It in the Head by Mike McCormack
Review by Michael Upchurch
Books in Brief
Stripping Away the Sorrows From This World by Jesus Gardea
Review by James Polk
Blues for Hannah By Timm Farrington
Review by Zofia Smarbe
Nineteen to the Dozen by Sholom Aleichem
Review by Sander Brawarsky
Good Fences by Erika Ellis
Review by Betsy Groban
The Fire Gospels by Mike Magnuson
Review by Erik Burns
Highway Trade by John Domini
Review by Norah Vincent
Washington Post Book World
I know this Much is True by Wally Lamb
Review by Mary Kay Zuravleff
Gain by Richard Powers
Review by Thomas M. Disch
Caprice and Rondo by Dorothy Dunnett
Review by Brian Jacomb
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Review by Tamsin Todd
A World Away by Stewart O'Nan
Review by Peter McCarthy
Bombay Ice by Leslie Forbes
Review by Shashi Tharoor
How it all Began by Nicolai Bukharin
Review by Oleg D. Kalugin
Philadelphia Inquirer
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Review by Peter Landry
This is My Daughter by Roxanna Robinson
Review by Carole Goldberg
Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Ellis
Review by Frank Wilson
San Francisco Chronicle
Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanaugh
Review by Kein Berger
The Treatment by Daniel Menaker
Review by Elizabeth Judd
Secrets by Nuruddin Farah
Review by Lisa Meyer
Sunset Limited by James Lee Burke
Review by Joe Gores
Grace: A Fictional Memoir by Robert Ward
Review by Robert Ward
LA Times
Too Cool by Duff Brenna
Ingratitude by Ying Chen
The Iron Bridge by David Morse
The Lake Dreams of the Sky by Swain Wolfe
The Exes by Pagan Kennedy
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
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Friday July 3, 1998
New York Times
The Last Resort by Alison Lurie
Review by Michiko Kakutani
LA Times
Gone for Good by Mark Childress
Review by Merle Rubin
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