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IssueVol. 063 Issue 022 (December 1 1980)
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Paid articleWelty's Shimmering South
KAPP, ISA
VVEIIYS ffookjssuc SHMMERNG SOUTH BY ISA KAPP w ? Ye have grown so accustomed to the sad faces of our famous writers, to their saturnine bearing and melancholy histories of drink and disarray,...
Paid articleLiberals, Stalinists and HUAC
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr.
Liberals, Stalinists and HUAC Naming Names By Victor Navasky Viking. 482 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Naming Names is essentially two books. They can be dealt with...
Paid articleThe Novelist as Political Traveler
GLICK, NATHAN
The Novelist as Political Traveler John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey By Townsend Ludington Dutton. 568pp. $20.00. Reviewed by Nathan Glick Former editor, "Dialogue" Why was a...
Paid articleAn Original from Missouri
GRAFF, HENRY F.
An Original from Missouri Off the Record: The Private Papers of Harry S. Truman Edited by Robert H. Ferretl Harper & Row. 448 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Henry F. Graff Professor of History,...
Paid articleBracing Ridicule
PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
On Poetry BRACING RIDICULE BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL C atire seems to have originated out of primitive rite. At ancient Greek festivals, the leaders of Phallic songs heaped abuse on the bystanders...
Paid articleTrials of a Radical Folksinger
GEWEN, BARRY
Trials of a Radical Folksinger Woody Guthrie, A Life By Joe Klein Knopf. 476 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Barry Gewen Contributor, "Commentary," "Viva" The radical folksinger Woody Guthrie was a...
Paid articleA Cross Between Dickens and Runyon
RASKIN, A.H.
A Cross Between Dickens and Runyon Wayward Reporter: The Life of A.J. Liebling By Raymond Sokolov Harper & Row. 354 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by A.H. Raskin Associate Director, National News...
Paid articleRemembering the Levitas Salon
ROCHE, JOHN P.
Perspectives REMEMBERING THE LEWAS SALON BY JOHN P ROCHE My assignment forthis Christmas Book Issue was simply to review Burnett Bolloten's monumental study The Spanish Revolution: The Left and...
Paid articleFrom Sensibility Toward Sense
SIMON, JOHN
From Sensibility Toward Sense_ Under the Sign of Saturn By Susan Son lag Farrar, Straus, Giroux. 204 pp. $10.95 Reviewed by John Simon According to an adage that often performs also as an...
Paid articleWhen Good Old Boys Crack Up
ROMANO, JOHN
When Good Old Boys Crack Up Ray By Barry Hannah Knopf. 113 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by John Romano Department of English, Columbia University, author, "Dickens and Reality In its peculiar way—and...
Paid articleMemories of a Wistful Amnesiac
GOODMAN, WALTER
Memories of a Wistful Amnesiac The Book of Laughter and Forgetting By Milan Kundera Knopf. 228 pp. SI0.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman We begin with a funny, frightful contemporary political...
Paid articleDreams and Haunting Grotesques
GIBIAN, GEORGE
Dreams and Haunting Grotesques The Sky Above Hell and Other Stories By Yuri Mamleyev Translated by H. W. Tjalmsa Taplinger. 160pp. $7.95. Reviewed by George Gibian Professor of Russian...
IssueVol. 063 Issue 024 (December 29 1980)
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