Editors' Choice

FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth sbLife and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee sbThe Penitent, Isaac Bashevis Singer sbPitch Dark, Renata Adler sbRates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury sb5hame, Salman Rushdie NONFICTION: The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin sbThe Oxford Book of Dreams, edited by Stephen Brook Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose sbThe Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton sbSiegfried Sassoon's Long Journey, edited by Paul Fussell The Spiritualists, Ruth Brandon