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Monday September 28, 1998 New York Times Two Cities by John Edgar Wideman Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday September 27, 1998 New York Times Bag of Bones by Steven King Review by Daniel Mendelsohn Ghost Town by Robert Coover Review by Sven Birkerts Filth by Irvine Welsh Review by Courtney Weaver Model Behavior: A Novel and 7 Stories by Jay McInerney Review by A.O. Scott The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Review by Michael Upchurch Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering Review by Katharine Weber Two for the Devil by Allen Hoffman Review by Jonathan Wilson Luminous Mysteries by John Holman Review by K. Alease Dilday Books in Brief: An Impossible Life by David Black Review by Barbara Fisher A German Picturesque by Jason Schwartz Review by Patrick Giles The Heart Is Its Own Reason by Natalee Caple Review by William Ferguson Where She Has Gone by Nino Ricci Review by Allen Lincoln The Love Germ by Jill Neville Review by Mergan Harlan Pearl: Poems by Vincent Katz Review by Elizabeth Gaffney Washington Post Book World Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Review by Michael Dirda Cereus Blooms at Night by Shaari Mootoo Review by Lori Tsang The Treatment by Daniel Menaker Review by James Marcus Beach Boy by Ardashir Vakil Review by Sudip Bose San Francisco Chronicle The Museum Guard by Howard Norman Review by Ellen McGarrahan On Beulah Height by Reginald Hill Review by Carey Harrison Philadelphia Inquirer Bag of Bones by Steven King Review by Jennifer Weiner Almost Heaven by Marianne Wiggins Review by Edna Stumpf LA Times Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Review by Richard Eder Bridget Jones Diary by Helen Fielding Review by Cara Mia Di Massa Two Cities: Stories by John Edgar Wideman Armadillo by William Boyd Bech at Bay: A Quasi-Novel by John Updike Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Friday September 25, 1998 Washington Post Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Review by Carolyn See Sunday 20, 1998 New York Times Book Review Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Review by James McManus Mistler's Exit by Louis Begley Review by Jack Miles Tomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien Review by Jane Smiley In Dark Water by Mermer Blakeslee Review by Suzanne Berne The Wall by John Marks Review by Charles Norcht I Can't Wait on God by Albert French Review by Gary Giddins Almost Heaven by Marianne Wiggins Review by Gary Krist Bread for the Departed by Bogdan Wojdowski Review by Abraham Brumberg Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones Review by Lisa See Plain and Normal by James Wilcox Review by Karen Karbo Books in Brief: Impossible Saints by Michele Roberts Review by David Guy Jacob's Hands by Aldous Huxley and Christopher Isherwood Review by William Ferguson Watermelon by Marian Keyes Review by Paula Freidman Love Among the Orientals by Maxine Glassman Review by Malachi Duffy The Tonto Woman by Elmore Leonard Review by Charles Salzberg Washington Post Book World Model Behavior: A Novel and 7 Stories by Jay McInerney Review by Christopher Hitchens Europa by Tim Parks Review by John Derbyshire Cartesian Sonata and Other Novellas by William H. Gass Review by Steven Moore A Song of Stone by Iain Banks Review by John Clute A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Volume Two by Anna Maria Oates Review by Paul Di Filippo My Year in the No-Man's Bay by Peter Handke Review by Thomas McGonigle Children of Clay by Raymond Queneau Review by Gregory Feeley Philadelphia Inquirer The Farming of Bones by Edwidge Danticat Review by Terence Samuel Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Review by Susan Miron Filth by Irvine Welsh Review by Lara Wozniak Mackerel by Moonlight by William F. Weld Review by Leonard W. Boasberg San Francisco Chronicle Tomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien Review by David Wiegard Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Review by Erika Milny The Chimney Sweeper's Boy by Barbara Vine Review by Kate Regan 36 View of Mt. Fuji by Todd Shimoda Review by Laurel Rosen LA Times A Song of Stone by Iain Banks Review by Richard Eder My Sister from the Black Lagoon by Laurie Fox Review by Georgia Jones-Davis Filth by Irvine Welsh Review by Kurt Jensen Almost Heaven by Marianne Wiggins Review by Gloria Emerson The Triumph of Love by Geoffrey Hill Review by John Hollander Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz Review by Bret Lott Tuesday September 15, 1998 New York Times Tomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien Review by Michiko Kakutani Monday September 14, 1998 LA Times The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards Review by Jonathan Levi Sunday September 13, 1998 New York Times Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Reviewed by Mavis Gallant Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz Reviewed by Kit Reed The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barret Review by Annette Kobak The Anatomist by Federico Andahazi Review by Lisa Zeidner For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin Review by Rand Richards Cooper Looking for Mo by Daniel Duane Review by Brad Wetzler The Long Falling by Keith Ridgway Review by Rosemaary Mahoney Blizzard of One: Poems by Mark Strand Review by Deborah Garrison An American Killing by Mary-Ann Tirone Smith Review by Ellen Feldman Apples from the Desert: Selected Stories by Savyon Liebrecht Review by Suzanne Ruta The Gun Runner's Daughter by Neil Gordon Review by James Polk Books in Brief: Taming it Down by Kim McLarin Review by Andy Solomon Tivolem by Victor Rangel-Ribiero Review by Anderson Tepper Praying to a Laughing God by Kevin McColley Review by Maggie Garb Hope by Glen Duncan Review by Peter Bricklebank The Answer is Yes by Sara Lewis Review by Linda Barrett Osborne The Undiscovered Country by Samantha Gillison Review by Elizabeth Gaffney Washington Post Book World Tomato Red by Daniel Woodrell Review by Michael Lowenthal Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine Review by Mike Musgrove Reservation Road by John Burnham Schwartz Review by James Hymes For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin Review by Greg Johnson San Francisco Chronicle The Fisherman's Son by Michael Koepf Review by Jim Dodge A Comedy of the Spirit by Stephen Mitchell Review by Michael Huneven Kaaterskill Falls by Allegra Goodman Review by Melissa Levine My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki Review by Patricia Abe Philadelphia Inquirer The Voyage of Narwhal by Andrea Barrett Review by Sandra Scofield The Museum Guard by Howard Norman Review by Georgia Jones-Davis Mary McGreevy by Walter Keady Review by Peter Landry Dream Children by A.N. Wilson Review by Rhonda Dickey LA Times Death in Summer by William Trevor Review by Richard Eder Small Craft Warnings by Kate Braverman The French Mathematician by Tom Petsinis Lampshades by Carole Morin For Kings and Plantes by Ethan Canin The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett Review by Susan Salter Reynolds Friday September 11, 1998 New York Times Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Review by Michiko Kakutani Thursday September 10, 1998 New York Times For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Wednesday September 9, 1998 New York Times Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges Review by Richard Bernstein Monday September 7, 1998 New York Times The Gun Runner's Daughter by Neil Gordon Review by Richard Bernstein Sunday September 6, 1998 New York Times Book Review Mackerel by Moonlight by William Weld Review by Donald E. Westlake Death in Summer by William Trevor Review by Brooke Allen Salt Water by Charles Simmons Reviewed by Katharine Weber Once Upon the River Love by Andrei Makine Review by William Boyd Rules of the Wild by Francesca Marciano Review by Laura Jamison Taken In by Beverly Coyle Review by Emily Barton Books In Brief: The Doctor Stories by Richard Selzer Review by Tobin Harshaw Forms of Devotion by Diane Schoemperlen Review by Gardner McFall Island Justice by Elizabeth Winthrop Review by Malachy Duffy Your Blue-Eyed Boy by Helen Dunmore Review by Mark Lindquist The Ruins by Trace Farrell Review by Jennifer Kornreich Passing Remarks by Helen Hodgman Review by Martha E. Stone Washington Post Book World Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones Review by Janice P. Nimura Mistler's Exit by Louis Begley Review by Adam Kirsch Almost Heaven by Marianne Wiggins Review by Claire Messud The Fall of a Sparrow by Robert Hellenga Review by Frances Stead Sellers Five Fortunes by Beth Gutcheon Review by Rachel Pastan The Silver Castle by Clive James Review by Sudip Bose San Francisco Chronicle The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty by Sebastian Barry Review by Carey Harrison If I Don't Six by Elwood Reid Review by John Perry Mistler's Exit by Louis Begley Review by Alan M. Jalon Lost in Translation by Nicole Mones Review by Carolyn Wakeman Philadelphia Inquirer Blindness by Jose Saramago Review by Melvin Jules Bukiet Lucky Bastard by Charles McCarry Review by Frank Wilson Ghost Town by Robert Coover Review by Drew Limsky LA Times Blindness by Jose Saramago Review by Richard Eder Like a Hole in the Head by Jen Banbury The Odd Sea by Frederick Reiken The Cockfighter by Frank Manley Nike by Nicholas Flokos Degrees of Love by Rachel Basch Review by Mark Rozzo Friday September 4, 1998 New York Times The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett Review by Michiko Kakutani Wednesday September 2, 1998 New York Times The Museum Guard by Howard Norman Review by Richard Bernstein August List Fiction Review Source Main Page Comments and Suggestions About this Site