Thomas R. Edwards | The New York Review of Books

The Awful Truth

Nothing Lost

by John Gregory Dunne

June 24, 2004 issue

Unsentimental Education

The Book of Hard Things

by Sue Halpern

December 18, 2003 issue

After You’ve Gone

A Multitude of Sins

by Richard Ford

July 18, 2002 issue

The Great Sultan

A Few Corrections

Brad Leithauser

June 21, 2001 issue

The Gang’s All Here

The Half-life of Happiness

by John Casey

August 13, 1998 issue

Pulling Down the Temple

Barney's Version

by Mordecai Richler

March 5, 1998 issue

Desperate Characters

Bear and His Daughter: Stories

by Robert Stone

October 9, 1997 issue

It’s a Mad World

The Friends of Freeland

by Brad Leithauser

Mister Sandman

by Barbara Gowdy

April 10, 1997 issue

Palm Beach Story

About Schmidt

by Louis Begley

October 31, 1996 issue

Professional Mystery?

September 19, 1996 issue

Babylon Re-Revisited

The Last of the Savages

by Jay McInerney

May 23, 1996 issue

Letter

Gary Fisketjon

Professional Mystery?

September 19, 1996 issue

Catch-23

Closing Time

by Joseph Heller

October 20, 1994 issue

Design for Living

Natural History

by Maureen Howard

December 3, 1992 issue

Family Values

Very Old Bones

by William Kennedy

The Evening Star

by Larry McMurtry

August 13, 1992 issue

Good Intentions

Mating

by Norman Rush

Brazzaville Beach

by William Boyd

October 10, 1991 issue

Adventurers

SIRO

by David Ignatius

A Soldier of the Great War

by Mark Helprin

August 15, 1991 issue

Nelson Algren: An Exchange

October 25, 1990 issue

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

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June 28, 1990 issue

Exchange

Bruce A. Toor

Nelson Algren: An Exchange

October 25, 1990 issue

Sad Young Men

Moon Palace

by Paul Auster

Closer

by Dennis Cooper

Boomerang

by Barry Hannah

August 17, 1989 issue

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

January 19, 1989 issue