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Book reviews

Unlikely stories

by Vince Passaro,

The quiet renaissance of American short fiction

The reanimators

by Jonathan Dee,

On the art of literary graverobbing

Unmaking Friends

by Christopher Hitchens,

Norman Podhoretz as crumb

The old man and the manuscript

by Tom Jenks,

Hemingway, in his last book, writes his own sad epitaph

The criminal within

by Albert Mobilio,

A genre of how-to manuals indulges our darkest fantasies

The unsparing vision of Don Delillo

by Vince Passaro,

In his new novel, Underworld, an American fresco

Made men of letters

by Albert Mobilio,

Our thing about the Cosa Nostra

Black letters on a white page

by Vince Passaro,

In a new compendium of African American literature, a world of politics

The Encyclopedia of Insanity

by L. J. Davis,

A psychiatric handbook lists a madness for everyone

A flapping of scolds

by Vince Passaro,

The literary establishment descends on T.S. Eliot

Dragon fiction

by Vince Passaro,

The (very lucrative) advent of the Christian thriller

Book reviews

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Unlikely stories

The reanimators

Unmaking Friends

The old man and the manuscript

The criminal within

The unsparing vision of Don Delillo

Made men of letters

Black letters on a white page

The Encyclopedia of Insanity

A flapping of scolds

Dragon fiction

September 1996

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