Presents several reviews of recommended paperback books. 'Learning Human: Selected Poems,' by Les Murray; 'The Plato Papers: A Prophecy,' by Peter Ackroyd; 'Horse Heaven,' by Jane Smiley; 'They're Cows, We're Pigs,' by Carmen Boullosa; Others.
Presents short reviews of several new and noteworthy paperback books. "Drop City," by T. Coraghessan Boyle; "A Box of Matches," by Nicholson Baker; "A Ship Made of Paper," by Scott Spencer.
Offers brief reviews of several paperback books. `Everything Your Know,' by Zoe Heller; `Darwin's Worms,' by Adam Phillips; `A Conspiracy of Paper,' by David Liss; `The Blind Side of the Heart,' by Michael C. White; `The Magic Kingdom,' by Stanley Elkin; Others.
Mentions paperback titles available as of September 1998. `The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief,' by Ben Macintyre; `The Hotel Eden: Stories,' by Ron Carlson; `Glass, Paper, Beans: Revelations on the Nature and Value of Ordinary Things,' by Leah Hager Cohen; `Doctor Dogbody's Leg,' by James Norman Hall; Other titles.
Presents brief reviews of new and noteworthy paperbacks for the week of May 25, 1997. `Jack Gance,' by Ward Just; `Tom: The Unknown Tennessee Williams,' by Lyle Leverich; `Paper Wings,' by Marly Swick; ``Worse Than Slavery': Parchman Farm and the Ordeal of Jim Crow Justice,' by David M. Oshinsky; `The Book of Secrets,' by M.G. Vassanji; `Orson Welles: The Road to Xanadu,' by Simon Callow; `The Game of Kings,' by Dorothy Dunnett; Others.
Reviews several paperback books. `Black Dog of Fate: A Memoir,' by Peter Balakian; `The Puttermesser Papers,' by Cynthia Ozick; `Who Goes First? The Story of Self-Experimentation in Medicine,' by Lawrence K. Altman; `In the Memory of the Forest,' by Charles T. Powers; `Portrait of the Walrus by a Young Artist,' by Laurie Foos.
Published
1998
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