BOOKS Richard Cohen From the Russian, with Love Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Translated by Rosamund Bartlett Oxford University Press, $29.95, 847 pp. Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy Translated by...
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CRITIC'S NOTEBOOK Richard Cohen Harper Leaves the Club Harper (appropriately) has unleashed a two-million-copy first printing of Harper Lee's second-to-be-published novel, Go Set a Watchman, and...
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Marie Ponsot F or summer pleasure and refreshment, read poems. At play in the fields of joy you'll find Jean Gallagher's poems in This Minute (Fordham University Press, $18, 100 pp.) and...
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BOOKS A pope of many silences The Battle for Rome The Germans, the Allies, the Partisans, and the Pope, September 1943-June 1944 Robert Katz Richard Cohen The nine months in which German...
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The Last Word EN GARDE! Richard Cohen As war with Iraq appears increasingly unavoidable, some have suggested that George W. Bush's obvious personal animosity toward Saddam Hussein is more a...
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BOOKS She used to write novels Iris Murdoch A Life Peter J. Conradi W. W. Norton and Co., $35, 706 pp. Richard Cohen There was never any good biography of a good novelist," confided Scott...
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Richard Cohen Richard Cohen is a freelance book editor and writer. His book on the history ofswordplay will be published by Random House in 2002. I asked the priest in front of me in the bank...
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Pius X I I : Not vindicated Richard Cohen t is a peculiar statue. The I work of a well-known Italian sculptor, Francesco Messi_._ na, it is set about halfway into Saint Peter's to the right...
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