Books: Editors' Choice

FICTION: A Good School, Richard Yates ∙ Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel Garcia Mdrquez ∙ Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving

NONFICTION: A Distant Mirror, Barbara W. Tuchman ∙ American Caesar, William Manchester Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie Robert Kennedy and His Times, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. ∙ The Gulag Archipelago III, Alexander Solzhenitsyn ∙ The Illusion of Technique, William Barrett ∙ The Snow Leopard, Peter Matthiessen

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