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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The Awful Truth
June 24, 2004
Nothing Lost
by John Gregory Dunne
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Unsentimental Education
December 18, 2003
The Book of Hard Things
by Sue Halpern
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After You’ve Gone
July 18, 2002
A Multitude of Sins
by Richard Ford
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The Great Sultan
June 21, 2001
A Few Corrections Brad Leithauser
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The Gang’s All Here
August 13, 1998
The Half-life of Happiness
by John Casey
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Pulling Down the Temple
March 5, 1998
Barney’s Version by Mordecai Richler
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Desperate Characters
October 9, 1997
Bear and His Daughter: Stories by Robert Stone
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It’s a Mad World
April 10, 1997
The Friends of Freeland by Brad Leithauser
Mister Sandman by Barbara Gowdy
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Palm Beach Story
October 31, 1996
About Schmidt by Louis Begley
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Professional Mystery?
September 19, 1996
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Babylon Re-Revisited
May 23, 1996
The Last of the Savages by Jay McInerney
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Catch-23
October 20, 1994
Closing Time by Joseph Heller
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Design for Living
December 3, 1992
Natural History by Maureen Howard
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Family Values
August 13, 1992
Very Old Bones by William Kennedy
The Evening Star by Larry McMurtry
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Good Intentions
October 10, 1991
Mating by Norman Rush
Brazzaville Beach by William Boyd
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Adventurers
August 15, 1991
SIRO by David Ignatius
A Soldier of the Great War by Mark Helprin
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Nelson Algren: An Exchange
October 25, 1990
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Underground Man
June 28, 1990
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
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Sad Young Men
August 17, 1989
Moon Palace
by Paul Auster
Closer by Dennis Cooper
Boomerang by Barry Hannah
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A Case of the American Jitters
January 19, 1989
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
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Vita Nuova
October 13, 1988
The Facts: A Novelist’s Autobiography by Philip Roth
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Low Expectations
February 4, 1988
The Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
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Ghost Story
November 5, 1987
Beloved by Toni Morrison
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Indictments
August 13, 1987
Bandits by Elmore Leonard
The Red White and Blue by John Gregory Dunne
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Gulp!
December 18, 1986
It by Stephen King
Whirlwind by James Clavell
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Boom at the Top
May 8, 1986
The Bourne Supremacy by Robert Ludlum
The White House Mess by Christopher Buckley
The Sisters by Robert Littell
Stallion Gate by Martin Cruz Smith
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Pathos and Power
December 19, 1985
Honorable Men by Louis Auchincloss
Luisa Domic
by George Dennison
The Old Gringo by Carlos Fuentes, translated with the author by Margaret Sayers Peden
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An American Education
May 10, 1984
Democracy by Joan Didion
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The Innocent
February 16, 1984
The True Adventures of John Steinbeck, Writer
by Jackson J. Benson
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Good Morning, America
July 15, 1982
Hometown by Peter Davis
American Journey: Traveling with Tocqueville in Search of “Democracy in America” by Richard Reeves
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Stage Fret
July 16, 1981
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
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Outsider
January 22, 1981
John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey
by Townsend Ludington
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It’s Love!
March 6, 1980
Endless Love by Scott Spencer
The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose by Alice Munro
Black Tickets by Jayne Anne Phillips
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Feeding on Fantasy
July 19, 1979
Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien
Incandescence by Craig Nova
Mulligan Stew
by Gilbert Sorrentino
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On the Gold Standard
April 5, 1979
Good As Gold by Joseph Heller
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Terror in Freedonia
February 8, 1979
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
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Only Yesterday
November 23, 1978
A Good School by Richard Yates
Lying Low
by Diane Johnson
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Something About a Soldier
May 4, 1978
Whistle by James Jones
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Troubling Comedian
February 9, 1978
Rockinghorse by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Richard Flantz
Adam Resurrected by Yoram Kaniuk, translated by Seymour Simckes
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Temptations
August 4, 1977
The Morley Mythology by Austin Wright
Kingkill by Thomas Gavin
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Getting Away from It All
March 3, 1977
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor
A Dream Journey by James Hanley
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Tough Guys
September 30, 1976
The Blue Hammer by Ross Macdonald
The Family Arsenal by Paul Theroux
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The Short View
April 1, 1976
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
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Barthelme the Scrivener
December 11, 1975
The Dead Father by Donald Barthelme
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Adventures of the Deep
August 7, 1975
Far Tortuga
by Peter Matthiessen
The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium and Other Novels by Harry Mathews
The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore
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Busy Minister
April 3, 1975
A Month of Sundays by John Updike
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Academic Vaudeville
February 20, 1975
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
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Can You Go Home Again?
June 13, 1974
If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
Train Whistle Guitar by Albert Murray
Another Life by Derek Walcott
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Dos Passos Divided
November 29, 1973
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
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Surprise, Surprise
May 17, 1973
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.
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Jonathan, Benny, and Solitude
March 22, 1973
The Devil Tree by Jerzy Kosinski
The Autograph Hound by John Lahr
A Woman Named Solitude
by André Schwarz-Bart, translated by Ralph Manheim
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Ford’s Better Idea
January 25, 1973
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News from Elsewhere
October 5, 1972
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
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People in Trouble
July 20, 1972
The Terminal Man by Michael Crichton
Open Heart by Frederick Buechner
Enemies, A Love Story by Isaac Bashevis Singer
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Keeping Up With Norman Mailer
June 15, 1972
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
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The Real Thing
March 9, 1972
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