SEPTEMBER |

Wednesday September 29, 1999
Colony Girl by Thomas Rayfiel
Review by Richard Eder

Sunday September 26, 1999
New York Times Book Review
PU-239: And Other Russian Fantasies by Ken Kalfus
Review by Jim Shepard
Quit Monks or Die by Maxine Kumin
Review by Laura Jamison
The Last Deception of Palliser Wentwood by Imogen de la Bere
Review by Angela Huth
Light in the Crossing: Stories by Kent Meyers
Review by Stewart O'Nan
Books in Brief:
The Desperate Season by Michael Blaine
Review by Charles Wilson
Selfwolf by Mark Halliday
Review by Ken Tucker
Poor Kevin by Kate Margam
Review by Jennifer Schuessler
Unhallowed Ground by Gillian White
Review by James Polk
Signs and Wonders by Melvin Jules Bukiet
Review by Edward Neuert
Washington Post Book World
Why She Left Us by Rahna Reiko
Review by Janice Nimura
Maps by Nuruddin Farah
Gifts by Nuruddin Farah
Review by Charles R. Larson
Leopard in the Sun by Laura Restrepo
Review by Marie Arana
Philadelphia Inquirer
Mr. X by Peter Straub
Review by Edna Stumpf
San Francisco Chronicle
Plainsong by Kent Haruf
Review by Sarah Saffian
Italian Fever by Valerie Martin
Review by Leonard Michaels
The Road to Mars by Eric Idle
Review by David Wiegand
Lie in the Dark by Dan Fesperman
Review by Mark Luce
Song of the Exile by Kiana Davenport
Review by M.manette Ansay
LA Times
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Will Self
Review by Jonathan Levi
A Long Way From Home by Connie Briscoe
Review by Paula L. Woods
First Fiction
Collectors by Paul Griner
The Pleasing Hour by Lily King
Why She Left Us by Rahna Reiko
Review by Mark Rozzo
Discoveries:
The Jump-Off Creek by Molly Gloss
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Review by Kern Knapp Sawyer

Sunday September 19, 1999
New York Times Book Review
The Summer of '39 by Miranda Seymour
Review by Nancy Willard
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Will Self
Review by Laura Miller
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine
Review by Fernanda Eberstadt
Peel My Love Like an Onion by Ana Castillo
Review by Margot Mifflin
Books in Brief:
Collectors by Paul Griner
Review by Bruce Allen
Nightmare Town: Stories by Dashiell Hammett
Review by Terry Teachout
The Road to Mars by Eric Idle
Review by Gary Kamiya
Cityside by William Heffernan
Review by Abby Ellin
One Hundred and One Ways by Mako Yoshikawa
Review by Jim Gladstone
Boy in the Water by Stephen Dobyns
Review by Erik Burns
Washington Post Book World
Somewhere in France by John Rolfe Gardiner
Review by Audrey C. Foote
Shadow-Box by Antonnia Logue
Review by Gary Krist
Hitler's Niece by Ron Hansen
Review by Marc Fisher
53 Days by Georges Perec
Review by Michael Dirda
Philadelphia Inquirer
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Review by Ann Waldron
San Francisco Chronicle
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
Review by Janice P. Nimura
Hearts in Atlantis by Stpehen King
Review by Michael Berry
God is a Bullet by Boston Teran
Review by John Perry
The Angle Quickest for Flight by Steven Kotler
Review by Robert A. Cucinotta
LA Times
The Angelic Darkness by Richard Zimler
Review by Jonathan Levi
Jem (and Sam) by Ferdinand Mount
Review by Peter Green
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
Review by Leslie Brody
Discoveries
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Violet & Claire by Francesca Lia Block
All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills
Review by Susan Salter Reynolds
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
Review by Julia Faila Earhart
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
Review by Colleen Kelly Warren

Monday September 13, 1999
New York Times
The Catastrophist by Ronin Bennett
Review by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt

Sunday September 12, 1999
New York Times Book Review
A Star Called Henry by Roddy Doyle
Review by Richard Eder
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
Review by Caleb Crain
The Last Life by Claire Messud
Review by Suzanne Berne
All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills
Review by James Polk
Having Everything by John L'Heureux
Review by Lisa Ziedner
Gifts by Nuruddin Farah
Review by Suzanne Ruta
The Professor of Light by Marina Budhos
Review by Henry Shukman
The Big Banana by Roberto Quesada
Review by Sandra Tsing Loh
Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse by Alexander Pushkin
Review by Richard Lourie
Books in Brief:
Liar's Moon by Philip Kimball
Review by Alanna Nash
Leaving Pico by Frank X. Gaspar
Review by Erik Burns
City of Ice by John Farrow
Review by Peter Khoury
Blast from the Past by Ben Elton
Review by Emily Hall
Mollie Peer by Van Reid
Review by Betsy Groban
Philadelphia Inquirer
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
Review by Donald Newlove
Big Trouble by Dave Barry
Review by Debra Nussbaum
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Review by David Walton
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine
Review by Susan Miron
San Francisco Chronicle
Motherless Brooklyn by Jonathan Lethem
Review by Cathryn Alpert
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine
Review by Chris Bohjalian
Lovers for a Day by Ivan Klima
Review by Jennie Yabroff
A Boy in Winter by Maxine Chernoff
Who I Was Supposed to Be by Susan Perabo
Sea of Memory by Erri De Luca
Schrodinger's Baby by H.R. McGregor
Henry of Atlantic City by Frederick Reuss
Review by John Perry
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Review by James Sullivan
LA Times
The Crime of Olga Arbyelina by Andrei Makine
Review by Jonathan Levy
The Abyssinian by Jean-Christophe Rufin
Review by Scott Bradfield
First Fiction
Who I Was Supposed to Be by Susan Perabo
Escape from Film School by Richard Walter
Review by Mark Rozzo
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Hearts in Atlantis by Stephen King
Review by mandy Davis
Who I Was Supposed To Be by Susan Perabo
Review by Lee Ann Sandweiss

Sunday September 5, 1999
New York Times Book Review
A Gesture Life by Chang-rae Lee
Review by Andrew O'Hagan
The Honey Thief by Elizabeth Graver
Review by Katharine Weber
Yellow Jack by Josh Russell
Review by Aoibheann Sweeney
The Oresteia by Aeshylus; Translated by Ted Hughes
Review by Garry Wills
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Review by Gregory Maguire
Kill Me First by Kate Morgenroth
Review by Maryanne Vollers
The Peking Letter: A Novel of the Chinese Civil War by Seymour
Topping
Review by Lisa See
Books in Brief:
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
Review by Alanna Nash
Hunting Down Home by Jean McNeil
Review by Katharine Whittemore
Windward Heights by Maryse Conde
Review by Anderson Tepper
The Splintered Day by V.K. Mina
Review by Melanie Rehak
The Hindenburg Crashes Nightly by Greg Hrbek
Review by Diane Cole
Washington Post Book World
Headlong by Michael Frayn
Review by Michael Dirda
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Oresteia by Aeschylus; Translated by Ted Hughes
Review by J.T. Barbarese
San Francisco Chronicle
Mountain Time by Ivan Doig
Review by Ron Franscell
Cruddy by Lynda Barry
Review by Janice P. Nimura
All Quiet on the Orient Express by Magnus Mills
Review by Carey Harrison
A Certain Age by Tama Janowitz
Review by Autumn Stephens
The Mark Of the Angel by Nancy Huston
Review by David Wiegand
The Last Life by Claire Messud
Review by Cathryn Alpert
Hart's War by John Katzenbach
Review by David Lazarus
The Tentmaker by Michelle Blake
Quit Monks or Die by Maxine Kumin
In Praise of Lies by Patricia Melo
Deep Background by David Corn
Review by Ellen McGarrahan
The Wilder Sisters by Jo-Ann Mapson
Review by Cathryn Alpert
L.A. Requiem by Robert Crais
Review by Robert Ward
Shy Girl by Elizabeth Stark
Review by Marilee Strong
LA Times
Lovers for a Day; New and Collected Stories by Ivan Klima
Review by Jonathan Levi
The Fencing Master by Arturo Perez-Reverte
Review by Nick Owchar
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut
Review by Dale Singer
Heartwood by James Lee Burke
Review by Helen Verongos
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