Books: Editors' Choice

FICTION:

A Bend in the River, V.S. Naipaul

∙ Collected Stories, Paul Bowles

∙ Jailbird, Kurt Vonnegut Living in the Maniototo, Janet Frame

∙ Sophie's Choice, William Styron

∙ The Ghost Writer, Philip Roth

∙ The Living End, Stanley Elkin

NONFICTION:

African Calliope, Edward Hoagland

∙ Blood of Spain, Ronald Fraser

∙ I Love: The Story of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Lili Brik, Ann and Samuel Charters The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff

∙ The Medusa and the Snail, Lewis Thomas

∙ The White Album, Joan Didion

∙ WhenMemory Comes, Saul Friedlander

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