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Life and Art in Newark
APPLE, MAX
LFE HBOOKS AND ART N NEV\ARK BY MAX APPLE ASA FICTION writer who makes public appearances, I find myself now and then called upon to explain to literary audiences why I like Philip Roth's work It...
The Lure of Words
SIMON, JOHN
The Lure of Wfords The Temptation of Saint Antony By Gustave Flaubert Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Kitty Mrosovksy Cornell 288 pp $17 50 Reviewed by John Simon In the...
To Redeem the German Language
FALKENBERG, BETTY
To Redeem the German Language The Meeting at Telgte By Gunter Grass Translated by Ralph Manheim Afterword by Leonard Forster Harcourt 147pp $9 95 Reviewed by Betty Falkenberg Contributor,...
A Powerless Eva Peron
JAKAB, ELISABETH
A Powerless Eva Peron La Presidenta By Lois Gould Linden 349 pp $13 95 Reviewed by Elisabeth Jakab Senior editor, G P Putnam, editorial adviser, "Book Forum " With a hit Broadway musical,...
The Voices of the People
MARGOLIS, RICHARD J.
States of the Union THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE BY RICHARD J MARGOLIS Today, folks, we are going to consider populism in its many guises It is an idea whose time has come, gone and come again—the...
Failure in Family Court
DAVIS, HOPE HALE
Failure in Family Court The Child Savers: Juvenile Justice Observed By Peter S Prescott Knopf 244 pp $12 95 Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the Plaza" Among the valiant...
Back to the Melting Pot
WHITFIELD, STEPHEN J.
Back to the Melting Pot The Ethnic Myth: Race, Ethnicity and Class in America By Stephen Steinberg Atheneum 277pp $14 95 Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield Associate Professor of American...
The Challenge of Governing
KELMAN, STEVEN
The Challenge of Governing Managing the Public's Business By Laurence E Lynn Jr Basic 211 pp $14 95 Reviewed by Steven Kelman Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard, author,...
A Polish Laureate
PETTINGELL, PHOEBE
On Poetry A POLISH LAUREATE BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL czeslaw Milosz, winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature, has experienced firsthand the turmoils that have shaken 20-century European...
An Anti-Semitic Genius
SINGER, DAVID
An Anti-Semitic Genius Dostoyevsky and the Jews By David Goldstein University of Texas 231 pp $17 50 Reviewed by David Singer Editor, "American Jewish Year Book", contributor,...
Leaving Lotus Land
GOODMAN, WALTER
Leaving Lotus Land A Walk on the West Side: California on the Brink Bv Herbert Gold Arbor 236 pp $12 95 Reviewed by Walter Goodman For a couple of decades Herb Gold, out of Ohio via New York...
Ignorance Worn Lightly
KENEZ, PETER
Ignorance Worn Lightly On a Field of Red: The Communist International and the Coming of World War II By Anthony Cave Blown and Charles B MacDonald Putnam 718 pp $19 95 Reviewed by Peter...
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