Thomas R. Edwards

Thomas R. Edwards is Emeritus Professor of English at Rutgers and a former editor of Raritan. His most recent book is Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968–1989. (June 2004)

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June 24, 2004: The Awful Truth

Nothing Lost by John Gregory Dunne

December 18, 2003: Unsentimental Education

The Book of Hard Things by Sue Halpern

July 18, 2002: After You've Gone

A Multitude of Sins by Richard Ford

June 21, 2001: The Great Sultan

A Few Corrections Brad Leithauser

August 13, 1998: The Gang's All Here

The Half-life of Happiness by John Casey

March 5, 1998: Pulling Down the Temple

Barney's Version by Mordecai Richler

October 9, 1997: Desperate Characters

Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone

April 10, 1997: It's a Mad World

The Friends of Freeland by Brad Leithauser

Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy

October 31, 1996: Palm Beach Story

About Schmidt by Louis Begley

September 19, 1996: Professional Mystery? (letter)

May 23, 1996: Babylon Re-Revisited

The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney

October 20, 1994: Catch-23

Closing Time by Joseph Heller

December 3, 1992: Design for Living

Natural History by Maureen Howard

August 13, 1992: Family Values

Very Old Bones by William Kennedy

The Evening Star by Larry McMurtry

October 10, 1991: Good Intentions

Mating by Norman Rush

Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd

August 15, 1991: Adventurers

SIRO by David Ignatius

A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin

October 25, 1990: Nelson Algren: An Exchange

June 28, 1990: Underground Man

Never Come Morning by Nelson Algren, Introduction by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., interview with the author by H.E.F. Donohue

The Neon Wilderness by Nelson Algren, Introduction by Tom Corson, Afterword by Studs Terkel

The Man with the Golden Arm by Nelson Algren, introduction by James R. Giles

A Walk on the Wild Side by Nelson Algren, foreword by Russell Banks

Nelson Algren: A Life on the Wild Side by Bettina Drew

Confronting the Horror: The Novels of Nelson Algren by James R. Giles

Nelson Algren's Chicago photographs by Art Shay

August 17, 1989: Sad Young Men

Moon Palace by Paul Auster

Closer by Dennis Cooper

Boomerang by Barry Hannah

January 19, 1989: A Case of the American Jitters

Last Notes from Home by Frederick Exley

A Fan's Notes: A Fictional Memoir by Frederick Exley

Pages from a Cold Island by Frederick Exley

October 13, 1988: Vita Nuova

The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography by Philip Roth

February 4, 1988: Low Expectations

The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe

November 5, 1987: Ghost Story

Beloved by Toni Morrison

August 13, 1987: Indictments

Bandits by Elmore Leonard

The Red White and Blue by John Gregory Dunne

December 18, 1986: Gulp!

It by Stephen King

Whirlwind by James Clavell

May 8, 1986: Boom at the Top

The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum

The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley

The Sisters by Robert Littell

Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith

December 19, 1985: Pathos and Power

Honorable Men by Louis Auchincloss

Luisa Domic by George Dennison

The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, translated with the author by Margaret Sayers Peden

May 10, 1984: An American Education

Democracy by Joan Didion

February 16, 1984: The Innocent

The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer by Jackson J. Benson

July 15, 1982: Good Morning, America

Hometown by Peter Davis

American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of "Democracy in America" by Richard Reeves

July 16, 1981: Stage Fret

Making Scenes: A Personal History of the Turbulent Years at Yale, 1966-1979 by Robert Brustein

The Camera Age: Essays on Television by Michael J. Arlen

January 22, 1981: Outsider

John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey by Townsend Ludington

March 6, 1980: It's Love!

Endless Love by Scott Spencer

The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro

Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips

July 19, 1979: Feeding on Fantasy

Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien

Incandescence by Craig Nova

Mulligan Stew by Gilbert Sorrentino

April 5, 1979: On the Gold Standard

Good As Gold by Joseph Heller

February 8, 1979: Terror in Freedonia

Cartel by Edward Jay Epstein

The Carlos Contract: A Novel of International Terrorism by David Atlee Phillips

Death of a Politician by Richard Condon

Smoke: Another Jimmy Carter Adventure by Alexander Cockburn, by James Ridgeway

November 23, 1978: Only Yesterday

A Good School by Richard Yates

Lying Low by Diane Johnson

May 4, 1978: Something About a Soldier

Whistle by James Jones

February 9, 1978: Troubling Comedian

Rockinghorse by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Richard Flantz

Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Seymour Simckes

August 4, 1977: Temptations

The Morley Mythology by Austin Wright

Kingkill by Thomas Gavin

March 3, 1977: Getting Away from It All

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis

The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor

A Dream Journey by James Hanley

September 30, 1976: Tough Guys

The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald

The Family Arsenal by Paul Theroux

April 1, 1976: The Short View

Kinflicks by Lisa Alther

Dream Children by Gail Godwin

Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? by Raymond Carver

Bloodshed and Three Novellas by Cynthia Ozick

December 11, 1975: Barthelme the Scrivener

The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme

August 7, 1975: Adventures of the Deep

Far Tortuga by Peter Matthiessen

The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels by Harry Mathews

The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore

April 3, 1975: Busy Minister

A Month of Sundays by John Updike

February 20, 1975: Academic Vaudeville

The King's Indian: Stories and Tales by John Gardner, illustrated by Herbert L. Fink

The Shadow Knows by Diane Johnson

The Odd Woman by Gail Godwin

The Clockwork Testament or Enderby's End by Anthony Burgess

June 13, 1974: Can You Go Home Again?

If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin

Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray

Another Life by Derek Walcott

November 29, 1973: Dos Passos Divided

The Fourteenth Chronicle: Letters and Diaries of John Dos Passos edited by Townsend Ludington

Dos Passos' Path to U.S.A.: A Political Biography 1912-1936 by Melvin Landsberg

May 17, 1973: Surprise, Surprise

The World of Apples by John Cheever

People Will Always Be Kind by Wilfrid Sheed

Points for a Compass Rose by Evan S. Connell Jr.

March 22, 1973: Jonathan, Benny, and Solitude

The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosinski

The Autograph Hound by John Lahr

A Woman Named Solitude by André Schwarz-Bart, translated by Ralph Manheim

January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)

October 5, 1972: News from Elsewhere

My Michael by Amos Oz, translated by Nicholas de Lange

The Western Coast by Paula Fox

Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski

I Come as a Thief by Louis Auchincloss

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

July 20, 1972: People in Trouble

The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton

Open Heart by Frederick Buechner

Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer

June 15, 1972: Keeping Up With Norman Mailer

The Long Patrol: 25 Years of Writing from the Work of Norman Mailer edited by Robert F. Lucid

Norman Mailer: The Man and His Work edited by Robert F. Lucid

Existential Errands by Norman Mailer

March 9, 1972: The Real Thing

The Truth About Them by Jose Yglesias

The Room by Hubert Selby Jr.

The Book of Flights by J.M.G. Le Clézio, translated by Simon Watson Taylor

Natives of My Person by George Lamming

Books by Thomas R. Edwards

Over Here: Criticizing America, 1968-1989 (1991)
Imagination and Power; A Study of Poetry on Public Themes (1971)