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• Africana 
  Nov. 29, 1999
  
• Vietnam: The Necessary War 
  Fred Barnes Nov. 8, 1999
  
• Books by and about Dawn Powell 
  Tim Page Nov. 1, 1999
  
• The New New Thing 
  Jean Strouse Oct. 25, 1999
  
• Stiffed 
  Shoshana Zuboff Oct. 11, 1999
  
• Dutch 
  Alan Brinkley Oct. 4, 1999
  
• The Big Test 
  Nathan Glazer Sept. 27, 1999
  
• Celebration, U.S.A., and The Celebration Chronicles 
  Witold Rybczynski Sept. 13, 1999
  
• A Selection of Travel Guides 
  Jodi Kantor Sept. 7, 1999
  
• The Harry Potter series 
  A.O. Scott Aug. 23, 1999
  
• Flowers in the Dustbin 
  Chris Norris Aug. 16, 1999
  
• The Coming of Post-Industrial Society 
  Aug. 9, 1999
  
• Eleanor Roosevelt: Volume 2, 1933-1938 
  Marjorie Williams July 26, 1999
  
• God's Funeral 
  Wendy Kaminer July 19, 1999
  
• A Selection of Self-Help Books 
  Jeffrey Goldberg July 12, 1999
  
• The Holocaust in American Life 
  James Young July 6, 1999
  
• Out for Good and Party Crasher 
  David Brooks June 28, 1999
  
• The Redhunter and The View From Alger's Window 
  Eric Alterman June 21, 1999
  
• The White Bone and Timbuktu 
  Colin McGinn June 14, 1999
  
• The First World War and The Pity of War 
  June 8, 1999
  
• David Foster Wallace's Hideous Men 
  Seth Stevenson June 1, 1999
  
• Kidder's Home Town and Suarez's Old Neighborhood 
  Alan Ehrenhalt May 24, 1999
  
• Kurt Andersen's Turn of the Century 
  Nathan Myhrvold May 18, 1999
  
• Gitta Sereny's Cries Unheard 
  Christopher Caldwell May 10, 1999
  
• New Critical Essay Collections 
  A.O. Scott May 3, 1999
  
• Discussing Nabokov 
  Richard Lamb April 26, 1999
  
• Anglomania 
  Robert McCrum April 19, 1999
  
• Burrough and Surowiecki 
  Bryan Burrough April 12, 1999
  
• Marzorati and Scott 
  A.O. Scott April 7, 1999
  
• Shulman and Kerr 
  Sarah Kerr March 29, 1999
  
• Caldwell and Weisberg 
  Christopher Caldwell March 15, 1999
  
• Pringle and Rose 
  Peter Pringle Feb. 22, 1999
  
• Cohn and Whitehead 
  Barbara Dafoe Whitehead Feb. 15, 1999
  
• Caldwell and Scott 
  Christopher Caldwell Feb. 8, 1999
  
• Fallows and Rosen 
  Jeffrey Rosen Feb. 1, 1999
  
• Powers and Wyman 
  Ann Powers Jan. 25, 1999
  
• Kerr and Surowiecki 
  James Surowiecki Jan. 18, 1999
  
• Gioia and Wood 
  James Wood Jan. 12, 1999
  
• Bennahum and Holt 
  Jan. 4, 1999