Books: Editors' Choice: Jan. 11, 1982

FICTION: The Age of Wonders, Aharon Appelfeld ∙ A Flag for Sunrise, Robert Stone ∙ Funeral Games, Mary Renault ∙ The Hotel New Hampshire, John Irving ∙ Memoirs of a Space Traveler, Stanislaw Lem ∙ Rabbit Is Rich, John Updike

NONFICTION: Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey, V.S. Naipaul ∙ The Confidence Man in American Literature, Gary Lindberg ∙ The Graves of Academe, Richard Mitchell ∙ The Language of Clothes, Alison Lurie ∙ Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling

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