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BOOKS Bewildered at being a man Big as Life Stories about Men Rand Richards Cooper The Dial Press, $21.95,324 pp. Cold Snap Thorn Jones Little, Brown and Company, $19.95,288 pp. Elizabeth...

Annunciation, David Plante (August 1994)

BOOKS Conspicuous artfulness: An author's shaping hand T o start with, there is much about David Plante' s writing to admire- his terse yet evocative prose, the precision of his details,...

The Wages of Guilt Ian Buruma (May 1994)

BOOKS A tale of two peoples Several years ago, Ian Buruma, a Dutch-born journalist and essayist living in England, with well-established ties to Japan, decided to learn more about...

Curriculum Vitae (May 1993)

BOOKS Muriel Spark: A selective silence s I was reading the firstCURRICULUM VITAE writing has shaped Muriel Spark's...

Mariette in Ecstasy (June 1992)

WHAT LOVE IS THIS? NARIETTE IN ECSTASY Ron Hansen Edward Burlingham Books, $20, 179 pp. Elizabeth Beverly In 1906, young Mariette Baptiste enters a convent in upstate New York where her older...

Blue Calhoun (May 1992)

WHAT HE DID, WHY HE DID IT BLUE CALHOUN Reynolds Price Atheneum, $23, 364 pp. Elizabeth Beverly magine this: You are a fifteen-year old girl, holding in your hands an enormous document, 364...

WLT (April 1992)

STATIC ON THE PAGE WLT A Radio Romance Garrison Keillor Viking Press, $21.95, 401 pp. Elizabeth Beverly On page 12 of Garrison Keillor's mocking and rowdy first novel WLT: A Radio Romance,...

Death and the Future Life in Victorian Literature and Theology (January 1992)

BOOKS When hell shifted, so did hope DEATH AND THE FUTURE LIFE IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND THEOLOGY Michael Wheeler Cambridge University Press, $54.50, 456 pp. Elizabeth Beverly Between...

Foreign Studies (November 1990)

FOREIGN STUDIES Shusaku Endo (Translated from the Japanese by Mark Williams) Under Press/Simon and Schuster, $18.95,232 pp. Elizabeth Beverly Consider this book. The author calls it a novel even...

Religious book week critics' choices (March 1990)

RELIGIOUS BOOK WEEK CRITICS' CHOICES "Religious Books: Critics' Choices" has annually recommended new books in religion. This year we invited our critics to write instead about books, religious or...

A silence that is not hollow: (September 1989)

A SILENCE THAT IS NOT HOLLOW THE MINDFULNESS OF SHUSAKU ENDO ELIZABETH BEVERLY There was a time when one of our daughters loved a book that scared her. She was only four, and the book was wonderful....

Breathing Lessons (February 1989)

BOOKS The tidy plans that crumbled Walking into the wide but comfort able expanse of an Anne Tyler novel can feel like settling down into a porch swing on a late summer evening. The neighbors...

Letting Sanji die (May 1988)

LETTING SANJI DIE HOW CULTURES UNDERSTAND DEATH & LOSS ELIZABETH BEVERLY & RICHARD WIGHTMAN FOX Historians and anthropologists have had a lot to say to one another lately. Historians have learned...

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