Books Briefly
Books Briefly LETTERS OF LOUIS D. BRANDEIS: MR. JUSTICE BRANDEIS, edited by Meivin I. Urofsky and David L. Levy. Volume IV, 1916- 1921 (State University of New York Press. 587 pp. $20). The fourth...
...193 pp...
...The fourth in a distinguished series covers a brief but highly crucial period in Brandeis's public career: his personal reaction and attitude toward the seamy, protracted maneuverings of those who opposed his nomination to the Supreme Court in 1916...
...Gently and subtly, detail by detail, Bassani's short stories and novella create a moving, complex portrait of some Italian citizens during World War II...
...190 pp...
...Bradley's novel is a richly satisfying blend of character, story, and atmosphere...
...Without indulging in moral overkill, underground filmmaker Anger paints an appalling yet admittedly fascinating portrait of Babylon in modern times...
...Bassani's sensitive collection of stories provides the attentive reader with a rare view ?f people in wartime and shows us that for the ordinary person, war and its beginnings are frighteningly close to our daily lives...
...The underside of the dream factory was often a nightmare of drugs, sex without love, and violent death...
...The title story is a thoughtful appraisal of the role of the predator, human and animal...
...As in most of his activities, Brandeis attracted passionate admirers and critics alike...
...A superbly edited volume...
...The letters surrounding the nomination struggle reflect Brandeis's resourceful, tough-minded approach to controversy, and they read as an apologia for his long record of militant involvement in public causes...
...This enchanting collection of short stories includes a poignant picture of a restless author and his family and several warm and funny tales of the Catholic clergy as they cope with each other, the laity, and the changing church...
...The inhabitants of South Street are winos, prostitutes, con men, drifters, black derelicts, forgotten or despised by the rest of the city...
...he writes with humor and love...
...Many failed in Hollywood, and many who succeeded were such quintessential newly rich that they couldn't handle success...
...Adlai Brown, an intellectual would-be poet, comes to South Street trying to find his racial identity...
...The subsequent material surveys Brandeis's extensive commitment to Zionism during a time in which factional fights both in the United States and Europe sorely divided the movement...
...THE SMELL OF HAY, by Giorgio Bassani (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
...339 pp...
...6.95...
...The pious will find abundant evidence in this book that the Hollywood stars whose glamour, fame, and money they have envied paid a heavy price for stardom...
...Instead she woke up vomiting from sleeping pills, stumbled into the bathroom and drowned in the toilet bowl...
...8.95...
...This updated version of a book published in France in 1959 and previously available in the United States only in pirated editions reeks of decadence...
...The idealistic egocentrism of the intelligent young is a recurring theme...
...SOUTH STREET, by David Bradley (Grossman Publishers...
...LOOK HOW THE FISH LIVE, by J.F...
...7.95...
...Powers's stories are always worth waiting for...
...Anti-Semitism and fascism are two of the threads in the fabric of daily life in Ferrara: working, vacationing, gossiping, falling in love...
...This first novel by an extraordinarily talented young man is a rare treat...
...14.95...
...305 pp...
...He achieves the difficult task of making his characters familiar and sympathetic without condescending to them or to the reader...
...Mexican Spitfire" Lupe Velez tried to arrange a saintly, candlelit suicide reflecting her Catholic background...
...HOLLYWOOD, BABYLON, by Kenneth Anger (Straight Arrow Books...
...Behind the scene of his public silence, Brandeis coordinated a determined effort to mobilize information and strategy for his supporters...
...Parts of the book are amusing, much of it is just pitiful...
...he discovers love, hate, humor, and fierce pride...
...Powers (Knopf...
...Sometimes when the beautiful people tired of the ugliness surrounding them and tried to exit with grace, the furies still pursued them...
Vol. 39 • December 1975 • No. 12
