Editor's Choice

FICTION: The Fifth Son, Elie Wiesel

Flaubert's Parrot, Julian Barnes

Later the Same Day, Grace Paley

Men and Angels, Mary Gordon

Small World, David Lodge -- This Real Night, Rebecca West

NONFICTION

The Chief, Lance Morrow -- Citizen Hughes, Michael Drosnin -- Occasional Prose, Mary McCarthy -- The Periodic Table, Primo Levi -- Up for Grabs, John Rothchild -- A Vanished Present: The Memoirs of Alexander Pasternak, edited by Ann Pasternak Slater