Books: Editors' Choice
FICTION: A Bend in the River. V.S.
Naipaul Cannibals and Missionaries. Mary McCarthy
Collected Stories. Paul Bowles
Jailbird. Kurt Vonnegut
Living in the Maniototo. Janet
Frame Sophie's Choice. William
Styron The Ghost Writer. Philip
Roth
NONFICTION: African Calliope.
Edward Hoagland Onward and
Upward in the Garden. Katharine S.
White The Duke of Deception.
Geoffrey Wolff The Intricate Music.
Thomas Kiernan The Medusa and
the Snail, Lewis Thomas The Right
Stuff. Tom Wolfe The White
Album. Joan Didion
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