To the Editor: Norman Rush waffled in his review of Salman Rushdie's new novel (Jan. 14).

Knopf also published the other first novel, "Mating," by Norman Rush, about a love affair between an anthropologist and a utopian.

To the Editor: In his review of "The Moor's Last Sigh," Norman Rush fails to make two vital connections.

In 1996 our reviewer, Norman Rush, said le Carre has ventured "fiercely into satire, producing a tour de force."

WHITES, by Norman Rush.

Norman Rush (born October 24, 1933, Oakland, California) is an American writer whose introspective novels and short stories are set in Botswana in the 1980s.

(Editors' choices of other recent books of particular interest) MORTALS, by Norman Rush.

Rich in detail and vivid anecdotes, "Monster of God," Norman Rush wrote in a review last year, "is a treasury of exotic fact and hard thinking."

"Soyinka fought from situation to situation," Norman Rush wrote in the Book Review, "managing to make time for a prodigious output of literary art."

By Norman Rush.