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Sunday May 31, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Ashe of Rings: And Other Writings by Mary Butts
Review by Janet Byrne
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Review by Elizabeth Gleick
Remote Feed by David Gilbert
Review by Adam Goodheart
An Ocean in Iowa by Peter Hedges
Review by Jen Nessel
Herb's Pajamas by Abigail Thomas
Review by Barbara Quick
Leaving Small's Hotel by Eric Kraft
Review by James Polk
Vacation reading: List selected from books reviewed since the
Holiday Books issue of December 1997
Washington Post Book World
The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker
Review by John Crowley
Identity by MIlan Kundera
Review by Stephen Loch
The Snake Charmer by Sanjay Nigam
Review by Guy Amirthanayagam
The Short History of a Prince by Jane Hamilton
Review by Lelia Ruckenstein
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer
Review by James Held
Medea: A Modern Retelling by Christa Wolf
Identity by MIlan Kundera
Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon
San Francisco Chronicle
Glorie by Caryn James
Review by Jeanne Fay
Aliens of Affection by Padgett Powell
Review by Elizabeth Brunazzi
LA Times
The Treatment by Daniel Menaker
Review by Richard Eder
Now It's Time to Say Goodbye by Dale Peck
Review by Celia McGee
Freedomland by Richard Price
Review by Jonathan Levi
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Thursday May 28, 1998
New York Times
The Treatment by Daniel Menaker
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
Washington Post
The Venice Adriana by Ethan Mordden
Review by David P. Tedhams
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Tuesday May 26, 1998
New York Times
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday May 25, 1998
New York Times
How It All Began by Nikolai Bukharin
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Sunday May 24, 1998
New York Times Book Rewiew
Hemingway's Chair by Michael Palin
Review by Bruce Webber
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Review by William H. Pritchard
Man or Mango? A Lament by Lucy Ellmann
Review by Lisa Zeidner
Ark Baby by Liz Jensen
Review by Alida Becker
Books in Brief:
After Dunkirk by Milena McGraw
Review by Barbara Fisher
Black Ajax by George MacDonald Fraser
Review by Scott Veale
Grace: A Fictional Memoir by Robert Ward
Review by Ruth Coughlin
Children of God by Maria Doria Russell
Review by Jim Gladstone
Waiting for the Healer by Eamonn Sweeney
Review by Erik Burns
Blue Bossa by Bart Schneider
Review by Lynn Karpen
Washington Post Book World
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Review by Barbara Kingsolver
Loves That Bind by Julian Ross; Translated by Edith Grossman
Review by Steven Moore
Double Image by David Morrell
Review by Carolyn Banks
The Consul's Wife by W.T. Tyler
Review by Sara Sklaroff
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Michael Dirda
The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken
Review by Jonathan Yardley
Philadelphia Inquirer
1916; a Novel of the Irish Rebellion by Morgan Llywelyn
Review by Desmond Ryan
San Francisco Chronicle
The Mermaids Singing by Lisa Carey
Review by Brian Gunn
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Review by James Sullivan
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa
Review by William Rodarmor
Hemingway's Chair by Michael Palin
Review by Carey Harrison
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Review by Wendy Lasser
LA Times
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Review by Richard Eder
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Jonathan Kirsch
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Sunday May 17, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Summer at Gaglow by Esther Freud
Review by Deborah Mason
Identity by Milan Kundera
Review by Robert Grudin
Glorie by Caryn James
Review by Richard Burgin
The Everlasting story of Nory by Nicholson Baker
Review by Robert McCrum
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Sara Mosle
Ripley Bogle by Robert McLiam Wilson
Review by Liam Callanan
God Bless the Child by Ellen Feldman
Review by Laura Van Wormer
Books in Brief:
Flutie by Diane Glancy
Review by Elizabeth Gaffney
The Expert by Lee Gruenfeld
Review by J.D. Biersdorfer
Jacob's Ladder: A Story of Virginia During the War by Donald
McCaig
Review by David Walton
They Are Ruining Ibiza by A.C. Greene
Review by Allen Lincoln
Blueback by Tim Winton
Review by Patrick Giles
The Crasher by Shirley Lord
Review by Ruth Coughlin
Washington Post Book World
Chain of Custody by Harry Levy
Review by Peter McCarthy
The Hunt Club by Brett Lott
Review by Drew Limsky
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
Review by Tamsin Todd
Election by Tom Perrotta
Review by Linton Weeks
Philadelphia Inquirer
Freedomland by Richard Price
Review by Lionel Shriver
One Thousand Chestnut Trees by Mira Stout
Review by Peter Landry
Writings by Gertrude Stien
Review by Seymour I. Toll
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Review by Susan Campbell
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Review by Dan DeLuca
San Francisco Chronicle
The Most Wanted by Jacquelyn Mitchard
Review by Georgia Jones-Davis
Man or Mango? by Lucy Ellmann
Review by Sarah Coleman
Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
Review by Linda Perkins
Nosferatu by Jim Shepard
Review by Theodore Roszak
Silver City by Li Rui; Translated by Howard Goldblatt
Review by Ada Mei
Power by Linda Hogan
Review by Jeanne DuPrau
LA Times
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
Review by Richard Eder
Poems New and Collected: 1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska
Review by Jaruslaw Anders
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Review by Joan Mellen
The Antelope Wife by Louise Erdrich
Review by Thomas Curwin
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Thursday May 14, 1998
Glorie by Caryn James
Review by Hilma Wolitzer
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Tuesday May 12, 1998
New York Times
Freedomland by Richard Price
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Sunday May 10, 1998
New York TImes Book Review
The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser
Review by Patrick McGrath
Hourmaster by Christopher Bataille
Review by Scott Bradfield
The Coast of Good Intentions: Stories by Michael Byers
Review by Craig Seligman
The Healing by Gayl Jones
Review by Valerie Sayers
The Service of Clouds by Delia Falconer
Review by Deirdre McNamer
Books in Review:
Reflections of Loko Miwa by Lilas Desquiron
Review by James Polk
What She Knew by Peter Filkins
Review by William Ferguson
A Four-Sided Bed by Elizabeth Searle
Review by Norah Vincent
The Cockfighter by Frank Manley
Review by David Murray
Thorns of Truth by Eileen Goudge
Review by Paula Friedman
The Baker by Paul Hond
Review by Michael Lowenthal
Phildelphia Inquirer
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
Review by Lisa Zeidner
Fear by Simon Lane
Review by Ann Morrissett Davidon
The Rich Man's Table by Scott Spencer
Review by Michael Harrington
Washington Post Book World
Remote Feed by David Gilbert
Review by Mike Musgrove
The Cockfighter by Frank Manley
Review by Sudip Bose
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Review by Jay A. Fernandez
San Francisco Chronicle
Just As I Thought by Grace Paley
Review by Patricia Holt
Cities of the Plain by Cormac McCarthy
Review by Carey Harrison
Freedomland by Richard Price
Review by Michael Berry
Fairy Tale by Alice Thomas Ellis
Review by Rebecca Radner
Leaving Small's Hotel by Eric Kraft
Review by Michael Upchurch
The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway
Review by John Perry
Loves That Bind by Julian Rios
Review by William Rodamor
LA Times
The Everlasting Story of Nory by Nicholson Baker
Review by Richard Eder
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Friday May 8, 1998
LA Times
Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson
Review by Merle Rubin
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Tuesday May 5, 1998
New York Times
The Knife and Other Tales by Steven Millhauser
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday May 4, 1998
New York Times
Roxanna Slade by Reynolds Price
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Sunday May 3, 1998
New York Times Book Review
Goodnight Nebraska by Tom McNeal
Review by Albert Mobilio
Lloyd: What Happened by Stanley Bing
Review by Joe Queenan
Writings by Gertrude Stein
Review by Richard Howard
Like a Hole in the Head by Jen Banbury
Review by Brian Morton
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson
Review by Ruth Padel
Gaff Topsails by Patrick Kavanagh
Review by Courtney Weaver
The Seville Communion by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Review by Paul Baumann
Books in Brief:
This Time Last Year by Douglas Hobbie
Review by Barbara Fisher
Making History by Stephen Fry
Review by Allen Lincoln
The Creation of the Night Sky by Nicholas Christopher
Review by Melanie Rehak
Sari of the Gods by G.S. Sharat Chandra
Review by David Masello
All Saints by Kaaren Palmer
Review by David Galef
The Venice Adriana by Ethan Mordden
Review by Bill Haines
Washington Post Book World
Damsacus Gate by Robert Stone
Review by James Hynes
A Patchwork Planet by Anne Tyler
Review by Donna Rifkind
Thrones, Dominions by Dorothy Sayers and Jill Paton Walsh
Review by Sarah Booth Conroy
Quarantine by Jim Crace
Review by Bruce Bawer
Philadelphia Inquirer
Sweet Machine: Poems by Mark Doty
A Working Girl Can't Win by Deborah Garrison
Last Chance for the Tarzan Holler: Poems by Thylias Moss
Review by Daisy Freid
Girlfriend in a Coma by Douglas Coupland
Review by Sarah Vowell
San Francisco Chronicle
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Review by Ruth Coughlin
Blessing by Sheneska Jackson
Review by Linda Raymond
Damascus Gate by Robert Stone
Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet
The Story of My Disappearance by Paul Watkins
Review by Carey Harrison
Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard by Kiran Desai
Review by Reena Jana
The Knife Thrower and Other Stories by Steven Millhauser
Review by Michael Upchurch
The Rich Man's Table by Scott Spencer
Review by Regan McMahon
The Pilot's Wife by Anita Shreve
Review by Rebecca Rather
The Sinaloa Story by Barry Gifford
Review by Robert Collier
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Friday May 1, 1998
La Times
The Page Turner by David Leavitt
Review by Michael Frank
New York Times
A Widow for One Year by John Irving
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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