Russell Baker, The Exile
Nixon in Winter by Monica Crowley
Abuse of Power: The New Nixon Tapes edited by Stanley I. Kutler
Nixon's Economy: Booms, Busts, Dollars, and Votes by Allen J. Matusow
Ian Buruma, In the Empire of Islam
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples by V.S. Naipaul
Joyce Carol Oates, A Lost Generation
Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country by William Finnegan
Diane Johnson, My Blue Heaven
Raising Baby by the Book: The Education of American Mothers by Julia Grant
Baby and Child Care Seventh edition, by Benjamin Spock, by Steven Parker
Family Man by Calvin Trillin
The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, by Cornel West
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith F. Small
Born That Way: Genes, Behavior, Personality by William Wright
Maybe One: A Personal and Environmental Argument for Single-Child Families by Bill McKibben
Dr. Spock: An American Life by Thomas Maier
Cathleen Schine, Sleepwalkers
Last Vanities by Fleur Jaeggy, translated by Tim Parks
Andrew Delbanco, On Alfred Kazin (1915–1998)
Garry Wills, Slumming
Bulworth a film by and with Warren Beatty
Henry Allen, 407 Highland Ave., Orange, N.J.
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Helen Epstein, Life & Death on the Social Ladder
Unhealthy Societies: The Afflictions of Inequality by Richard G. Wilkinson
Healthy Work: Stress, Productivity, and the Reconstruction of Working Life by Robert Karasek, by Töres Theorell
The Power of Clan: The Influence of Human Relationships on Heart Disease by Stewart Wolf, by John G. Bruhn
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: A Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping by Robert M. Sapolsky
Michael Wood, On the Love Boat
Identity by Milan Kundera, translated by Linda Asher
A Lover's Almanac by Maureen Howard
The Red Hat by John Bayley
The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Edith Grossman
Gabriele Annan, Nesting Dolls
33 Moments of Happiness by Ingo Schulze, translated by John E. Woods
Simple Storys by Ingo Schulze
Geoffrey O'Brien, Child's Play
Cymbeline of Music, June 3-6, and at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., June 23-July 5, 1998 a play by William Shakespeare, directed by Adrian Noble. performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Brooklyn Academy
John Bayley, The Way We Write Now
Without by Donald Hall
Going Fast by Frederick Seidel
Ten Commandments by J.D. McClatchy
Blizzard of One by Mark Strand
On Love by Edward Hirsch
Tim Judah, How Milosevic Hangs On
Brian Urquhart, Looking for the Sheriff
FDR and the Creation of the UN by Townsend Hoopes, by Douglas Brinkley
United Nations: The First Fifty Years by Stanley Meisler
The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War by Richard N. Haass
Preventing Deadly Conflict: Final Report by the Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict.
Elaine Scarry, James E. Hall, An Exchange on TWA 800
Noel Malcolm, Kosovo's History
David Ball, An Appeal for the Oslo Agreement
Huston Smith, Freeman Dyson, Words and Things
Gabriele Annan is a book and film critic living in London. (March 2006)