Editors' Choice

FICTION: Edisto, Padgett Powell God's Pocket, Pete Dexter sb Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon Sweeney Astray, Seamus Heaney Testing the Current, William McPherson sb The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera

NONFICTION: D.W. Griffith, Richard Schickel sb The Knight, the Lady and the Priest, Georges Duby sb Knock Wood, Candice Bergen sb The March of Folly, Barbara W. Tuchman "Son," Jack Olsen sb Tales from the Secret Annex, Anne Frank