SEPTEMBER |
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Monday September 28, 1998
New York Times
Two Cities by John Edgar Wideman
Review by Richard Bernstein
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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
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Friday September 25, 1998
Washington Post
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Review by Carolyn See
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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
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Tuesday September 15, 1998
New York Times
Tomcat in Love by Tim O'Brien
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Monday September 14, 1998
LA Times
The Secrets of a Fire King by Kim Edwards
Review by Jonathan Levi
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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
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Friday September 11, 1998
New York Times
Birds of America by Lorrie Moore
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Thursday September 10, 1998
New York Times
For Kings and Planets by Ethan Canin
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
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Wednesday September 9, 1998
New York Times
Collected Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges
Review by Richard Bernstein
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Monday September 7, 1998
New York Times
The Gun Runner's Daughter by Neil Gordon
Review by Richard Bernstein
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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
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Friday September 4, 1998
New York Times
The Voyage of the Narwhal by Andrea Barrett
Review by Michiko Kakutani
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Wednesday September 2, 1998
New York Times
The Museum Guard by Howard Norman
Review by Richard Bernstein
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