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Fragments Against the Day of Ruin_ Sketchbook 1966-1971 By Max Frisch Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 343 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Kingsley Shorter This grab bag of a book spans five years of recent...

Making Ideas Walk Around (May 1973)

Making Ideas Walk Around The Call Girls By Arthur Koestler Random House. 167 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by Kingsley Shorter Arthur Koestler is a kind of intellectual Everyman, a child of the century...

Rewriting the World (April 1973)

Rewriting the World 62: A Model Kit By Julio Cortazar Pantheon. 281 pp. $6.95. Reviewed by Kingsley Shorter Julio Cortazar's new book takes its title from chapter 62 of his Hopscotch. There, the...

Germany Under the Lens (May 1972)

Germany Under the Lens The German Lesson By Siegfried Lenz Hill and Wang 471 pp $8 95 Reviewed by Kingsley Shorter Siggi Jepsen, confined in a reformatory on an island in the Elbe, is...

He Only Laughs When It Hurts (April 1972)

He Only Laughs When It Hurts North By Louis-Ferdinand Celine Delacorte. 454 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Kingsley Shorter Wait! . . . I'll tell you all about it . . . This book they unloaded on me,...

An Existential Spy Story (January 1972)

An Existential Spy Story The D'Arthez Case By Hans Erich Nossack Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 313 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Kingsley Shorter This is an enigmatic book. D'Arthez, the author explains in...

Tolstoy's Complaint (May 1971)

Writers & Writing TOLSTOY'S COMPLAINT BY KINGSLEY SHORTER THE MAN WHO KEEPS a diary seeks to impose order on the chaos of experience, perhaps to turn life into art. Or so one would think. In the...

Pound in Fragments (December 1970)

Writers & Writing POUND IN FRAGMENTS BY KINGSLEY SHORTER In the preface to his biography of Ezra Pound (The Life of Ezra Pound, Pantheon Books, 472 pp , $10 00), Noel Stock claims to have...

Humanity as Raw Meat (October 1970)

Waiters & Writing HUMANITY AS RAW MEAT BY KINGSLEY SHORTER "We classify in order to deal with one another, and then we die." Thus Frank Tuohy, in a characteristically bleak short story from his...

Gunter Grass' Image-Dance (April 1970)

Writers & Writing GUNTER GRASS' IMAGE-DANCE BY KINGSLEY SHORTER Gunter Grass' new novel, Local Anaesthetic (Harcourt, Brace & World, 284 pp , $6 95), is set in what the author has scornfully...

White Contriving, Black Jiving (March 1970)

Writers &Writing WHITE CONTRIVING BLACK JIVING BY K1NGSLEY SHORTER F f man is a prisoner of circumstances, one might think that surely none is more arbitrarily confining than the color of one's...

Existential Ragpicker (February 1970)

Writers & Wftiting EXISTENTIAL RAGPICKER BY KINGSLEY SHORTER perhaps the essential task now confronting mankind is to rediscover, and if necessary to reinvent, the meaning of being human. This,...

Gibbon's Decline and Fall (January 1970)

Writers & Writing GIBBON'S DECLINE AND FALL BY KINGSLEY SHORTER When Edward Gibbon finished writing his monumental Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he set about a much more modest task: the...

The Flattery of Courtiers (November 1969)

Writers & Writing THE FLATTERY OF COURTIERS BY KINGSLEY SHORTER The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (Delacorte, 156 pp., $5.95) is misnamed. A selection of Beatles lyrics it is, and very welcome too....

Lowry's Private Trip (September 1969)

WRITERS & WRITING Lowry's Private Trip By Kingsley Shorter Malcolm Lowry has made it at last: He is in the hands of the exegetes. A writer's writer when he died in 1957, virtually unknown to the...

Centuries in Collision (August 1969)

WRITERS^WRITING Centuries in Collision By Kingsley Shorter Unlike the wretched boy in the autobiographical title story of You Must Know Everything (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 283 pp., $5.95), who...

Gogol's Mystical Nationalism (May 1969)

WRITERS (^WRITING Gogol's Mystical Nationalism By Kingsley Shorter My first act on setting out to review N. V. Gogol's Selected Passages from Correspondence with Friends (Vanderbilt University...

Expressionist Mosaic (March 1969)

WRITERS WRITING Expressionist Mosaic By Kingsley Shorter Louis-Ferdinand Celine is best known in the English-speaking world for his first novel, Journey to the End of the Night, published in...

SHOUT, JONATHAN

SHTEIR, RACHEL

SHUB", "DIANA TRILLING, RAYMOND ROSENTHAL, ANATOLE

SHUB, ANATOLE

SHUB, BORIS

SHUB, DAVID

SHUB, DAVID J. DALLIN, ANATOLE

Shubert., Lee and J. J.

SHUCK, L. EDWARD Jr.

Shulman, Frederick

Shulman, Lester M.

SHULMAN, MARSHALL D.