Book Commentaries 1997
Book Commentaries below are from the weekly and Sunday Boston Globe from January, 1997 to December, 1997. Book reviews for non-fiction, fiction and poetry are also available.
Art Books of 1997
Critics Choice: Art Books, 12/7/97
A Year of Fiction
Season's Readings, 12/7/97
A Year of Nonfiction
Editor's choice: the years best nonfiction, 12/7/97
Book Quiz
Letters al fresco, 6/8/97
Gift Books
Best of gift books, 12/7/97
Great Sentences
Behind the great stories there are great sentences, 10/19/97
Great Small Packages
What great weight and power come in such small packages, 11/2/97
Holiday Books
Books of Hanukkah and Christmas, 12/14/97
In Search for Metaphors
There's no other way truly to 'see' the world, 12/14/97
Literature as a Lifesaver
In an ocean of tears, reading or writing can be a lifesaver, 10/5/97
Memorable Memoirs
In defense of memoir -- One writer's voice to one reader's ear, 11/30/97
Remembering John Gardner
Novelist, Husband, Teacher, Friend -- Remembering John Gardner, 9/21/97
Sampler for Giver's
A sampler - from venom to venus to victim - for the eclectic giver, 12/7/97
Summer Books
The books of summer, 6/8/97
Year End Survey: Books from the University Presses
Overlooked treasures of university presses: a year end survey , 12/28/97
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