Robert Towers
From the Review
March 3, 1994: Look Homeward, Ira
Mercy of a Rude Stream: Volume 1, A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park by Henry Roth
August 12, 1993: Far from Saigon
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler
March 25, 1993: Out of the Blue
The Oracle at Stoneleigh Court by Peter Taylor
June 25, 1992: House of Cards
The Tax Inspector by Peter Carey
April 9, 1992: Secret Histories
Vox by Nicholson Baker
A Case of Curiosities by Allen Kurzweil
January 16, 1992: The World We Live In
The Translator by Ward Just
Joe by Larry Brown
The Dylanist by Brian Morton
October 24, 1991: Believe It or Not
The Kindness of Women by J.G. Ballard
June 27, 1991: History Novel
Mao II by Don DeLillo
April 25, 1991: Tripping the Not-So-Light Fantastic
The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailor by John Barth
January 17, 1991: Enigma Variations
The Music of Chance by Paul Auster
East Is East by T. Coraghessan Boyle
Traffic and Laughter by Ted Mooney
August 16, 1990: Inconclusive Evidence
The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow
The Music Room by Dennis McFarland
In a Father's Place by Christopher Tilghman
May 17, 1990: Short Satisfactions
Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro
Family Sins and Other Stories by William Trevor
Men Under Water by Ralph Lombreglia
December 7, 1989: You Can Go Home Again
Affliction by Russell Banks
Mile Zero by Thomas Sanchez
July 20, 1989: The Raw and the Cooked
Dead Languages by David Shields
A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving
April 27, 1989: Mystery Women
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood
A Theft by Saul Bellow
The Whiteness of Bones by Susanna Moore
February 16, 1989: Intruders in the Dust
Paris Trout by Pete Dexter
Shine Hawk by Charlie Smith
November 10, 1988: Roughing It
Tracks by Louise Erdrich
Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
August 18, 1988: From the Grassy Knoll
Libra by Don DeLillo
March 31, 1988: The Way We Live Now
The Book and The Brotherhood by Iris Murdoch
Found in the Street by Patricia Highsmith
January 21, 1988: All-American Novels
Paco's Story by Larry Heinemann
That Night by Alice McDermott
Cigarettes by Harry Mathews
November 19, 1987: Grace Street Blues
Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow
October 8, 1987: Breaking the Spell
Three Continents by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Talkative Man by R.K. Narayan
June 25, 1987: Danger Zones
The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
The Rug Merchant by Phillip Lopate
February 12, 1987: Don't Mind If I Do (letter)
December 18, 1986: The Wild Blue Yonder
Diary of a Yuppie by Louis Auchincloss
Pubis Angelical by Manuel Puig, translated by Elena Brunet
Paper Doll by Jim Shepard
September 25, 1986: Ways Down South
Kate Vaiden by Reynolds Price
A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor
June 26, 1986: Good News
The News from Ireland and Other Stories by William Trevor
Monkeys by Susan Minot
Transactions in a Foreign Currency by Deborah Eisenberg
April 24, 1986: Screams and Whispers
Gerald's Party by Robert Coover
The Sportswriter by Richard Ford
December 19, 1985: Three-Part Inventions
World's Fair by E.L. Doctorow
Galápagos by Kurt Vonnegut
Where She Was by Anderson Ferrell
August 15, 1985: Moveable Types
Small World: An Academic Romance by David Lodge
Later the Same Day by Grace Paley
Self-Help by Lorrie Moore
April 11, 1985: Uprooted
Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich
Continental Drift by Russell Banks
December 6, 1984: Light and Lively
Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino
Lives of the Poets: A Novella and Six Stories by E.L. Doctorow
May 31, 1984: Good Pix from Stix
Places in the World a Woman Could Walk by Janet Kauffman
Leaving the Land by Douglas Unger
Edisto by Padgett Powell
December 8, 1983: El Novel
The Death of Che Guevara by Jay Cantor
June 2, 1983: Closing Time
An Ice-Cream War by William Boyd
The London Embassy by Paul Theroux
March 31, 1983: Violent Places
The Stories of Breece D'J Pancake foreword by James Alan McPherson, afterword by John Casey
Ironweed by William Kennedy
December 16, 1982: Complaint (letter)
December 16, 1982: American Graffiti
The Woods by David Plante
A Midnight Clear by William Wharton
Shiloh and Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason
October 21, 1982: Complaint (letter)
August 12, 1982: Good Men Are Hard to Find
The Terrible Twos by Ishmael Reed
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
June 24, 1982: So Big
Mickelsson's Ghosts by John Gardner
April 15, 1982: Moby-Dad
The Mosquito Coast by Paul Theroux
April 1, 1982: The Old Country
Malgudi Days by R. K. Narayan
November 5, 1981: Reservations
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
September 24, 1981: On the Indian World-Mountain
Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie
June 25, 1981: Comic Schemes
Loitering With Intent by Muriel Spark
May 14, 1981: Low-Rent Tragedies
What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver
Lifetime by Scott Sommer
Ellis Island and Other Stories by Mark Helprin
March 19, 1981: Reconciliations
The Company of Women by Mary Gordon
December 18, 1980: The Good Ship Britannia
Rites of Passage by William Golding
December 4, 1980: Mississippi Myths
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
September 25, 1980: He Had What It Takes
Kipling, Auden & Co. Essays and Reviews, 1935-1964 by Randall Jarrell
August 14, 1980: To the Greenhouse
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
June 12, 1980: Cautionary Tale
Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party by Graham Greene
May 15, 1980: Period Fiction
Falling in Place by Ann Beattie
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard
The Passion Artist by John Hawkes
February 7, 1980: Fair Play
On the Edge of the Cliff by V.S. Pritchett
December 20, 1979: Return to Sender
Letters by John Barth
November 8, 1979: Cuisine Minceur
Problems and Other Stories by John Updike
October 11, 1979: In the Trap
The Tree House Confessions by James McConkey
Ghost Images by Stephen Minot
Let the Lion Eat Straw by Ellease Southerland
July 19, 1979: Stingo's Story
Sophie's Choice by William Styron
May 3, 1979: Flannery O'Connor's Gifts
The Habit of Being letters by Flannery O'Connor, edited and with an introduction by Sally Fitzgerald
March 8, 1979: In Extremis
Birdy by William Wharton
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
January 25, 1979: Wanderers
Great Days by Donald Barthelme
Ladies Man by Richard Price
Wrinkles by Charles Simmons
November 9, 1978: Light Touch
The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever
July 20, 1978: Good Grief!
On Moral Fiction by John Gardner
July 20, 1978: Steerage (letter)
June 15, 1978: Forced Marches
Airships by Barry Hannah
Detour by Michael Brodsky
May 18, 1978: Tales of Manhattan
New York Jew by Alfred Kazin
March 23, 1978: The Delmore File
Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet by James Atlas
In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories by Delmore Schwartz, foreword by Irving Howe, introduction by James Atlas
January 26, 1978: Below Suspicion
True Confessions by John Gregory Dunne
Transatlantic Blues by Wilfrid Sheed
October 27, 1977: One-Man Band
The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth
September 29, 1977: Nixon's Seventh Crisis
The Public Burning by Robert Coover
September 15, 1977: A Silent Ring
Ring: A Biography of Ring Lardner by Jonathan Yardley
July 14, 1977: India's Long Night
India: A Wounded Civilization by V.S. Naipaul
March 31, 1977: Southern Discomfort
Lancelot by Walker Percy
March 17, 1977: Up the River
Falconer by John Cheever
A Place to Come To by Robert Penn Warren
November 25, 1976: So It Went
Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut
Books by Robert Towers
The Summoning (1983)