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Last April Titles: Travels (Knopf, $17.95), by Michael Crichton, finds the traveler, author, and Harvard Medical School graduate touring Pakistan and the Yucatan peninsula, climbing Kilimanjaro, and scuba-diving in the Caribbean and Tahiti, as well as reflecting on what he considers to be the shared search by scientists and mystics for universal truth.

Madness in the Family (New Directions, $16.95), by William Saroyan, is a collection of 17 stories (largely of Armenian-American family life in California) that, though not devoid of interest, are unlikely to enhance the faded literary reputation of a once-fashionable writer.

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Chilton Williamson Jr.

Last April Titles: Travels (Knopf, $17.95), by Michael Crichton, finds the traveler, author, and Harvard Medical School graduate touring Pakistan and the Yucatan peninsula, climbing Kilimanjaro, and scuba-diving in the Caribbean and Tahiti, as well as reflecting on what he considers to be the shared search by scientists and mystics for universal truth.

Madness in the Family (New Directions, $16.95), by William Saroyan, is a collection of 17 stories (largely of Armenian-American family life in California) that, though not devoid of interest, are unlikely to enhance the faded literary reputation of a once-fashionable writer.