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STONES FROM THE RIVER By Ursula Hegi. 507 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $23. A JEWISH man from Brooklyn married a German woman from Hamburg. Visiting her family for the [...]

A PLACE AT THE TABLE The Gay Individual in American Society. By Bruce Bawer. 269 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21. BRUCE BAWER is a poet and a critic, a [...]

LITTLE KINGDOMS Three Novellas. By Steven Millhauser. 239 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21. THE three tales making up 'Little Kingdoms' are about the ruling kingdoms of the imagination. Steven [...]

HENRY JAMES' MIDNIGHT SONG By Carol De Chellis Hill. 445 pp. New York: Poseidon Press/Simon & Schuster. $23. ONE dark and stormy night, Prof. Theodore Rydewort, a scholar of medieval [...]

DR. HAGGARD'S DISEASE By Patrick McGrath. 191 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $20. WHY would a serious writer like Patrick McGrath want to play by the rules of an outdated [...]

ARC D'X By Steve Erickson. 298 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $20. HERE I am, an old man in a dry month, being read to by a boy, waiting for [...]

THE BUNGALOW By Lynn Freed. 237 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. IN 'The Bungalow,' Lynn Freed shows us a glorious South African landscape in which bats swoop and squeal, monkeys [...]

THE POWER OF PLACE How Our Surroundings Shape Our Thoughts, Emotions, and Actions. By Winifred Gallagher. 240 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $22. IN 'The Power of Place,' an extended [...]

THE QUEEN'S THROAT Opera, Homosexuality, and the Mystery of Desire. By Wayne Koestenbaum. Illustrated. 271 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $22. IN a high-spirited and very personal book, Wayne Koestenbaum, [...]

YOU MUST BE DREAMING By Barbara Noel with Kathryn Watterson. 333 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21. BARBARA NOEL is a courageous woman. With the publication of 'You Must Be [...]

ACCEPTABLE RISKS By Jonathan Kwitny. 466 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $24. SEVERAL years ago, Martin Delaney, an AIDS activist, asked a provocative question during a debate about whether terminally [...]

EAST OF THE SUN The Epic Conquest and Tragic History of Siberia. By Benson Bobrick. Illustrated. 542 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $28. THEY were rounded up in police trucks [...]

THE DIVINE COMEDY OF JOHN VENNER By Gregory Blake Smith. 268 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $20. JOHN VENNER, the reckless narrator of Gregory Blake Smith's novel, does not pussyfoot [...]

CAST IN DOUBT By Lynne Tillman. 239 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $20. COMMUNITIES of expatriates tend toward diminishment and the picayune. Both past and future become cheerless areas of [...]

THE IMMORTALS By Michael Korda. 559 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $20. NOT very far into his gloomy new novel, 'The Immortals,' Michael Korda positions Senator John F. Kennedy on [...]

THE BLINDFOLD By Siri Hustvedt. 221 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. IT is difficult to know quite how to discuss Siri Hustvedt's first novel, 'The Blindfold,' which, although the product [...]

UNDERWORLD By Peter Conrad. 252 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21. PETER CONRAD'S career to date has been distinguished by the lateral range of his enthusiasms. His many works of [...]

THE FIRST WIVES CLUB By Olivia Goldsmith. 480 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $22. IN one corner, wearing the trappings of power and success, are the defending champs: Bill, the [...]

DEBT OF DISHONOUR By Robert Goddard. 463 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21. THE only thing missing from this masterly evocation of romantic thrillers of the past is a sound [...]

SCAR LOVER By Harry Crews. 284 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $19. THE good thing about a scar is that it is a sign of healing. A scar may be [...]

FUN WITH DIRK AND BREE By Alice Kahn. 253 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $18.95. 'THEY were not long, the days of wine and yuppies. We consumed things and were [...]

CITY LIMITS Memories of a Small-Town Boy. By Terry Teachout. 204 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $19. When I was growing up in St. Louis, my grandfather, the product of [...]

THE TURN From the Cold War to a New Era: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1983-1990. By Don Oberdorfer. Illustrated. 514 pp. New York. Poseidon Press. $25. In [...]

WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE By Peter Hedges. 335 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. What do you call a town with two grocery stores, no movie theater, a high school graduating [...]

REMEMBERING HEAVEN'S FACE A Moral Witness in Vietnam. By John Balaban. Illustrated. 334 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21.95. Those I have heard describe their experiences in Vietnam, military or [...]

SHUT UP AND LET THE LADY TEACH A Teacher's Year in a Public School. By Emily Sachar. Illustrated. 331 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21.95. SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT How the [...]

SIGNS OF THE TIMES Deconstruction and the Fall of Paul de Man. By David Lehman. 318 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21.95. Late in 1987 an extraordinary literary, intellectual and [...]

TWO GIRLS, FAT AND THIN By Mary Gaitskill. 304 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $18.95. In her 1988 short-story collection, 'Bad Behavior,' Mary Gaitskill chronicled the trials of inhabitants of [...]

IN THE MEN'S HOUSE An Inside Account of Life in the Army by One of West Point's First Female Graduates. By Carol Barkalow with Andrea Raab. Illustrated. 283 pp. New [...]

LEAD: A NEW YORK LIFE Of Friends and Others. By Brendan Gill. Illustrated. 348 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $21.95. A NEW YORK LIFE Of Friends and Others. By Brendan [...]

LEAD: WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS An Angler in Midstream. By Wayne Fields. 252 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $18.95. WHAT THE RIVER KNOWS An Angler in Midstream. By Wayne Fields. [...]

LEAD: SPIDER By Patrick McGrath. 221 pp. New York. Poseidon Press. $18.95. SPIDER By Patrick McGrath. 221 pp. New York. Poseidon Press. $18.95. My lip curls in a snide reflex [...]

LEAD: NO TURNING BACK Two Nuns' Battle With the Vatican Over Women's Right to Choose. By Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey with Jane O'Reilly. 332 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. [...]

LEAD: BODY By Harry Crews. 240 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $18.95. Don't let your daughter near the gym, Mrs. Worthington, or, like Shereel Dupont, the heroine of Mr. Crews's [...]

LEAD: NATURAL ORDER By Jonathan Penner. 170 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $16.95. NATURAL ORDER By Jonathan Penner. 170 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $16.95. In the hands of another [...]

LEAD: HOT FUDGE Stories. By Richard Spilman. 224 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $17.95. HOT FUDGE Stories. By Richard Spilman. 224 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $17.95. For the scrupulous [...]

LEAD: THE BARNUM MUSEUM By Steven Millhauser. 237 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $18.95. THE BARNUM MUSEUM By Steven Millhauser. 237 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $18.95. ''Imagination dead, imagine,'' [...]

LEAD: GOODBYE WITHOUT LEAVING By Laurie Colwin. 253 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $18.95. GOODBYE WITHOUT LEAVING By Laurie Colwin. 253 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $18.95. Laurie Colwin's writing [...]

LEAD: FLOATING IN MY MOTHER'S PALM By Ursula Hegi. 187 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. $17.95. FLOATING IN MY MOTHER'S PALM By Ursula Hegi. 187 pp. New York: Poseidon Press. [...]