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...
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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...
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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,...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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