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Books: Editors' Choice

FICTION: A Perfect Vacuum, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Birdy. William Wharton Nostalgia for the Present, Andrei Voznesensky ∙ The Coup, John Updike ∙ The Flounder, Gunter Grass ∙ The Stories of John Cheever. John Cheever ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving

NONFICTION: ADistant Mirror. Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ A Jew Today, Elie Wiesel ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester ∙ E.M Forster: A Life, P. N. Furbank ∙ In Search of History, Theodore H. White ∙ The Culture of Narcissism, Christopher Lasch

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FICTION

1. War and Remembrance, Wouk (1 last week)

2. Chesapeake, Michener (2)

3. Overload, Hailey...

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RAY KELLY, New York City Police Commissioner, on the arrest of a New Jersey man in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, the disappearance more than three decades ago of 6-year-old Etan Patz.
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