Books: Editors' Choice

FICTION:

A Good School, Richard Yates

— Final Payments, Mary Gordon

— Innocent Eréndira and Other Stories, Gabriel García Márquez

—Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer

—The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi

—The World According to Garp, John Irving

NONFICTION:

Ezra Pound in Italy, edited by Gianfranco Ivancich, photographs by Vittorugo Contino

Montaillou: The Promised Land of Error, Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

People of the Lake, Richard E. Leakey and Roger Lewin

—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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