Vol. 122 • November 1995 • No. 19

Correspondence 4
GANS, HERBERT & Flynn, Barbara & FITZPATRICK, NINA & RANSONE, MARGARET & ROBINSON, JOHN & IMBELLI, (REV.) ROBERT P. & HUGHES, (REV.) JOHN JAY & HANSON, BURRILL & KURTZWEIL, TERRENCE J. & HARGRAVE, ROBERT (KIP) & COLLINS, (MSGR.) TIMOTHY S. & Godfrey, A. W. & Englund, Steven & Slavick, William H.
Editorial The revolutionary 104th 5
Steinfels, Margaret O'Brien
Race & the Simpson verdict America is one of the few countries that even bothers to see racism as a problem That patriotic declaration out of the way, we are in a terrible mess 6
Garvey, John
The canary report Pleasant-enough white guy goes apartment hunting and smells something noxious 7
Feuerherd, Peter
MIDWESTERN LONELINESS Loneliness is our universal lot Through his characters, novelist Jon Hassler explores how some conquer their displacement and others don't Serious, but not grim; often very funny 8
Hynes, Joseph
TRYING TO SEE STRAIGHT "The silence of the Catholic critic is so often preferable to his attention" Or so Flannery O'Connor thought Our essayist gamely defies her 14
Schilling, Timothy P
The Precisionist 15
Jr, John Nixon
Devil in a Blue Dress Our reviewer hopes there will be a lot more Easy Rawlins films 16
Alleva, Richard
A Civil Action by Jonathan Harr A corporate horror story, well told 18
Keen, Suzanne
The Sign off the Cross by Colm Toibin 20
Wheeler, Edward T
A Big-Enough God by Sara Maitland 22
Johnson, Luke Timothy
In Good Hands by Charles Fish 24
McWilliams, Wilson Carey
Intimate Enemies by Meron Benvenisti 25
Mort, Jo-Ann
Elegy for the evening news Chet and David, Dan and Connie, Walter, Peter, and Tom, along with acid indigestion, hemorrhoids, and constipation 30
McCarthy, Eugene J
 
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