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*A-Bradley, George. Some Assembly Required. Aug. 2001.96p. Poetry Knopf, $23 (0-375-41195-X). 811. A common strategy for sorting American poets after World War II has been deciding whether they fall in [...]

The Best-Loved Poems of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassls. Ed by Caroline Kennedy. Sept. 2001. 192p. illus. Hyperion, $21.95 (0-7868-6809-0). 808.81. Her daughter offers a selection of the late former First Lady's [...]

Lost Classics. Ed. by Michael Ondaatje and others. Sept. 2001. 288p. illus. Random/Anchor, paper, $13 (0-385-72086-6). 809. Inveterate readers always want to hear about other inveterate readers' favorite books, and [...]

Thompson, Michael and Hernandez de Luna, Michael. The Stamp Art and Postal History of Michael Thompson and Michael Hernandez de Luna. Sept. 2001. 152p. illus. Badpress; dist. by Academy Chicago, [...]

*Cruse, Howard. Wendel All Together. 2001. 272p. illus. Olmstead; dist. by LPC, paper, $17.95 (1-58754-012-6). 741.5. At last, a classic gets collected! 'Wendel' was the first successful, long-lived gay comic [...]

Walsh, Patrick C. and Worthington, Janet Farrar. Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer. Aug. 2001. 452p. illus. index. Warner, $25.95 (0-446-52640-1). 616.99. Urologist-surgeon Walsh has long striven to [...]

Bernard, Christiaan. 50 Ways to a Healthy Heart. Sept. 2001. 304p. index. Thorsons; dist. by National Book Network, $24.95 (0-00-712224-1). 613. The South African surgeon who performed the first heart [...]

Cohen, Richard. Coming out Straight: Understanding and Healing Homosexuality. Sept. 2001. 312p. illus. index. Oakhill; dist. by Midpoint Trade, paper, $12.95 (1-886939-47-0). 306.76. Gay activists' remonstrations have made therapy intended [...]

Spong, John Shelby. A New Christianity for a New World: Why Traditional Faith Is Dying and How a New Faith Is Being Born. Sept. 2001. 320p. index. HarperSanFrancisco, $24 (0-06-067084-3). [...]

Losch, Richard R. The Many Faces of Faith. Aug. 2001. 176p. Eerdmans, 519 (0-8028-3910-X). 200. Losch's profiles of the major religions and the major Christian ecclesiastical traditions are based on [...]

Barker, Clive. Coldheart Canyon. Oct. 2001. 704p. HarperCollins, d,. $27.95 (0-06-018297-0). In 1920, a glamorous movie vamp and her manager go shopping in her homeland, Romania. They purchase the panorama [...]

Cornwell, John. Breaking Faith: The Pope, the People, and the Fate of Catholicism. Oct. 2001. 297p. index. Viking, $24.95 (0-670-03002-3). 282. Cornwell's last book, Hitler's Pope (1999), reopened the decades-old [...]

Robinson, Spider. The Free Lunch. Aug. 2001. 256p. Tor, $22.95 (0-312-86524-4). A mere 22 years from now, Dreamworld is the best theme park in the world, so attractive that many [...]

Vukcevich, Ray. Meet Me in the Moon Room. July 2001. 256p. Small Beer, 380 Atlantic Ave., PMB #132, Brooklyn, NY 11217, paper, $16 (1-931520-01-1). A man pulls the sweater his [...]

* Colombi, The Marchesa. A Small-Town Marriage. Tr. by Paula Spurlin Paige. Aug. 2001. 96p. Northwestern Univ., paper, $15.95 (0-8101-1841-6). Two of Italy's foremost twentieth-century writers, Natalia Ginzburg and Italo [...]

Heynen, Jim. The Boys' House. Aug. 2001. 188p. Minnesota Historical Society, $19.95 (0-87351-413-0). Heynen's little pieces about the boys--gentle, earthy, mysterious, and hilarious bits of midwestern farm life--are neither prose [...]

Karabell, Zachary. A Visionary Nation: Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead. July 2001. 256p. index. HarperCollins, $26 (0-380-97857-1). 973. Karabell divides American history into six periods and [...]

* Sisman, Adam. Boswell's Presumptuous Task: The Making of the Life of Dr. Johnson. Aug. 2001.400p. illus, index. Farrar, $.25 (0-374-11561-3). 828. Of course, this is a biography of James [...]

Held, Dennis. Betting on the Night. July 2001.72p. Lost Horse, 105 Lost Horse Ln., Sandpoint, ID 83864, paper, $14.95 (0-9668612-8-0). 811. Held's poems are so full of keenly heard sounds, [...]

Hildebrandt, Gregory. Greg and Tim Hildebrandt: The Tolkien Years. July 2001. 128p. illus. Watson-Guptill, paper, $24.95 (0-8230-5124-2). 741.6. In 1975 Greg and Tim Hildebrandt landed an assignment they felt destined [...]

* Martinet, Jeanne. Truer Than True Romance: Classic Love Comics Retold. 2001. 112p. illus. Watson-Guptill, paper, $19.95 (0-82308438-8). 741.5. Martinet gave a grown-up gander to the romance comic books she [...]

Decter, Midge. An Old Wife's Tale: My Seven Decades in Love and War. Sept. 2001. 256p. Regan, $26 (0-06-039428-5). 305.4. Expect no usual autobiography from Decter, who delights, she says, [...]

* Hogg, Jocelyn Bain. The Firm. July 2001. 176p. illus. Westzone; dist. by Trafalgar, $60 (1-903391-09-1). 364.106. To Americans, the English seem too polite, well spoken, and cute to be [...]

Augustine. Saint Augustine's Childhood: Confessiones. Ed. and tr. by Garry Wills. Sept. 2001. 189p. Viking, $19.95 (0-67003001-5). 270.2. Garry Wills' fascination with the great fourth-century Catholic philosopher, first attested by [...]

Kushner, Harold S. Living a Life That Matters: Resolving the Conflict between Conscience and Success. Sept. 2001. 176p. Knopf, $22 (0-375-41063-5). 296.7. Erich Fromm, Kushner reminds us, distinguished two kinds [...]

Soares, Jo. Twelve Fingers: Biography of an Anarchist. Tr. by Clifford E. Landers. June 2001. 320p. illus. Pantheon, $23 (0-375-40893-2). On the very day in 1897 that Getulio Vargas, 14, [...]

Harmon, Maurice. The Last Regatta. June 2001. 72p. Salmon; dist. by Dufour, paper, $13.95 (1-903392-08-X). 821. Impressions of Japan, some mythopoeia, and personal recollections make up this singing collection. Harmon [...]

* Rose, Aaron and Corn, Alfred. Aaron Rose: Photographs. June 2001. 144p. illus. Abrams, $49.50 (0-8109-4224-0). 779. God's first creation in the Book of Genesis is light, presumably so that [...]

Frank, Jane. The Art of Richard Powers. June 2001. 128p. illus. index. Paper Tiger; dist. by Sterling, $29.95 (1-85585-890-8). 759.13. As Frank observes, Richard Powers (1921-96) 'was one of the [...]

Wullschlager, Jackie. Hans Christian Andersen: The Life of a Storyteller. 2001. Knopf, $30 (0-679-45508-6). A major contention of this absorbing biography of the father of the literary fairy tale is [...]

Out of the Ordinary: Essays on Growing Up with Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Parents. Ed. by Noelle Howey and Ellen Samuels. 2000. St. Martin's, paper, $13.95 (0-312-24489-4). Not all 20 [...]

Reidinger, Paul. The City Kid. 2001. 230p. Haworth/Harrington/Southern Tier, $39.95 (1-56023-168-8); paper, $16.95 (1-56023-169-6). Guy, 40, and Doug, 16, establish a peculiar mentor relationship that is disrupted by the arrest [...]

Wilson, John Morgan. The Limits of Justice. 2000. Doubleday, $22.95 (0-385-49117-4). HIV-positive former investigative reporter Benjamin Justice is no sooner hired to dig dirt on the tell-all biographer of his [...]

Robb, Graham. Rimbaud. 2000. Norton, $35 (0-393-04955-8). Slightly before Oscar Wilde made the witty aesthete and the homosexual man virtually identical, a literarily talented French teenager crashed the Parisian avant-garde [...]

Nissenson, Hugh. The Song of the Earth. 2001. Algonquin, $24.95 (1-56512-298-4). If you are a genetically engineered artistic child prodigy, you are probably homosexual. John Firth Baker is, but that [...]

Lambert, Gavin. Mainly about Lindsay Anderson. 2000. Knopf, $27.50 (0-679-44598-6). Novelist and screenwriter Lambert and stage and film director Anderson were friends from adolescence on, and this biography-cum-memoir derives much [...]

Morris, Bonnie J. Girl Reel: A Lesbian Remembers Growing Up at the Movies. 2000. Coffee House, paper, $14.95 (1-56689-094-2). The daughter of parents who worked in 'the Industry' (i.e., moviemaking [...]

Ginsberg, Allen. Spontaneous Mind: Selected Interviews, 1958-96. 2001. Ed. by David Carter. HarperCollins, $40 (0-06-019293-3). What the late, rampantly gay poet did best was converse, as this generous helping of [...]

Belford, Barbara. Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius. 2000. Random, $29.95 (0-679-45734-8). Belford presents the Wilde we want today by detailing his adventures with available young men at home (London) and [...]

Tress, Arthur and others. Arthur Tress: Fantastic Voyage: Photographs, 1956-2000. 2001. 200p. illus. Little, Brown/Bulfinch, $50 (0-8212-2600-2). 779. Photography was surrealist before surrealism was invented. 'Mistakes' in composition, exposure, and [...]

Stanford, Craig B. Significant Others: The Ape-Human Continuum and the Quest for Human Nature. June 2001. 256p. index. Basic, $25 (0-465-08171-1). 302.5. Perfectly complementing Frans de Waal's magisterial The Ape [...]

* Pringle, Heather. The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession, and the Everlasting Dead. June 2001. 384p. illus. Hyperion/Theia, $23.95 (0-7868-6551-2). 393. Every three years, an unusual professional association convenes in a [...]

Bennett, William J. The Broken Hearth: Reversing the Moral Collapse of the American Family. Sept. 2001. 320p. Doubleday, $22.95 (0-385-49915-9). 306.8. In stating the case for restoring the health and [...]

Welsh, Irvine. Glue. May 2001. 480p. Norton, paper, $14.95 (0-393-32215-7). In his big new novel, Welsh has each of four working-class Edinburgh friends--Terry, Carl, Billy, and Gaily--report on his condition, [...]

Radosh, Ronald. Commies: A Journey through the Old Left, the New Left, and the Leftover Left. June 2001. 216p. illus. index. Encounter, 116 New Montgomery St., San Francisco, CA 94105, [...]

Coote, Stephen. Samuel Pepys. May 2001. 400p: illus. Palgrave, $27.95 (0-312-23929-7). 941. Perhaps the greatest primary document in British historiography is the diary Of a civil servant of the Restoration, [...]

* Shippey, T. A. J. R. R. Tolkien. Author of the Century. May 2001. 384p. index. Houghton, $26 (0-618-12764-X). 823. Like J. R. R. Tolkien, Shippey is a philologist who [...]

Manrique, Jaime. Tarzan, My Body, Christopher Columbus. Tr. by Margaret Savers Peden and Edith Grossman. June 2001. 236p. Painted Leaf, P.O. Box 2480, Times Square Station, New York, NY 101082030, [...]

* Chatters, James C. Ancient Encounters: Kennewick Man and the First Americans. June 2001. 304p. Simon & Schuster, $26 (0-684-85936-X). 569.9. In July 1996, two college students trying to sneak [...]

Gaiman, Neil. American Gods. July 2001. 432p. Morrow, $26 (0-380-97365-0). Shadow, a strong, silent, Steven Seagal type, has kept his head down while doing time for creaming the guys who [...]