1998 Book Award Winners

Seymour Levov, called the Swede for his blond hair, was the athletic god of Weequahic High in Jewish Newark in the 1940s. He marries a former Miss...

Two old friends meet at the funeral of Molly Lane, a woman they both once loved. Clive Linley is a celebrated composer at work on a symphony...

The novel opens in a bar in the Bronx after a funeral, forty seven mourners at long tables telling stories about Billy Lynch, and every story is...

Larry Weller is a Winnipeg florist, an ordinary man by every available measure, and on his 1978 honeymoon he walks into the hedge maze at Hampton...

Alice Munro's ninth book holds eight long stories set in the Ontario towns and farms she had been writing about for decades. Five first ran in the...

The Bear is a Kodiak bear who talks, reads, broods on mystical questions and plays the alto saxophone, and he is descended from circus bears. When...

On a beach in New Guinea in 1972, a local politician named Yali asked Diamond a question that took him twenty five years to answer: why did white...

Edward J. Larson's history of the 1925 Scopes trial begins with a publicity stunt. Dayton, Tennessee was a struggling town, and local businessman...

This is Katharine Graham's own account of becoming, almost by accident, one of the most powerful newspaper publishers in America. Graham describes...

Edward Ball grew up on the family joke, never talk about the slaves, and Slaves in the Family is the book he wrote by breaking the rule. The Balls...

On a beach in New Guinea in 1972, a local politician named Yali asked Diamond a question that took him twenty five years to answer: why did white...

Black Zodiac sets Charles Wright's adopted home in the Blue Ridge foothills of Virginia against two very different literary traditions critics have...

Birthday Letters is the most famous book of poems published in Britain in the last half century, and its story is inseparable from its content:...

In 2043 the United States fights its wars with soldierboys: armored remote units controlled by soldiers jacked in from a bunker near the front, ten...

In 2043 the United States fights its wars with soldierboys: armored remote units controlled by soldiers jacked in from a bunker near the front, ten...

Mike Noonan is a bestselling novelist whose wife Jo drops dead of an aneurysm in a drugstore parking lot, four years before the book begins,...

Cley is Physiognomist First Class in the Well-Built City, capital of a country ruled by Master Drachton Below. Physiognomy there is an exact...

Billy Bob Holland practices law in Deaf Smith, Texas, hill country between the pines and the hardscrabble, and carries the double load Burke builds...

Billie Jo Kelby is fourteen and living through the worst of the Dust Bowl on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma in 1934 and 1935, and Hesse tells...

Paul O. Zelinsky retells the Brothers Grimm version of the old tale: a couple trades their unborn daughter to a sorceress in exchange for stolen...

A man waiting at a red light suddenly goes blind, not into darkness but into a featureless white, and the affliction spreads through the unnamed...