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Gift books for the holidays
Bright lights, big cities

An idiosyncratic, completely subjective list of novels for the urban romantic
by Elizabeth Manus

From Homer to Casanova

Reading in a classical mode
by Peter Kadzis

Telling tales

New fiction for lovers, parents, and other difficult people
by Michael Lowenthal

Practical approaches

New nonfiction for the demented, the delirious, and the daffy
by Virginia Heffernan

Supreme fictions

New translations and collections of modern masters have helped make 1997 a good year for poetry
by Adam Kirsch

Heavy duty

Think books of 1997 for assorted wonks, humanitarians, and brain-trust types
by Scott Stossel

Worlds away

For lovers of art and history, books of fine photography collapse time and space
by Fred Turner

The joy of cookbooks

From jazzed-up basics to a reincarnated classic
by Sally Sampson

And a little child shall read them

Books for the literate and discriminating niece and nephew (and their parents)
by Susannah Garboden

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