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WINTER BOOKS SUBURBIA TODAY BY BARRY GEWEN In the 1950s and early 1960s, we got attacks on suburbia. Today, we get histories. The reason for the change is obvious. What was once a point of...
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Gorbachev's Manifesto Perestroika: New Thinking for Our Country and the World By Mikhail S. Gorbachev Harper &Row. 254 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert C. Tucker Professor of politics...
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A Modern Russian Hero Pushkin House By Andrei Bitov Translated by Susan Brownsberger Farrar Straus Giroux. 371 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Josephine Woll Associate professor of...
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I WAS SIMPLY A-SOVET' A Talk with Joseph Brodsky By Anna Husarska On Decern ber 10 Joseph Brodsky formally received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Widely considered the most outstanding...
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Brook in Print The Shifting Point By Peter Brook Harper & Row. 254 pp. $22.50. The Mahabharata By Jean-Claude Carrière Translated by Peter Brook Harper & Row. 238 pp. $18.95. Reviewed...
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On Poetry RECAPTURING THE PAST BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL SOMETIMES the freshest artistic approach is not to " make it new" but to try and restore what has been lost. The breakthroughs achieved by...
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Well-Groomed Housepet Corruptions of Empire By Alexander Cock burn Verso. 479pp. $22.95. Reviewed by Stefan Kanfer Contributor, "Time, " "New Republic" It is a triumph of packaging. On...
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Perspectives ASSAULTS ON THE BRITISH NOVEL BY GRUB SMITH London When Jean-Paul Sartre died of kidney failure in April 1980, preparations for a massive funeral were begun...
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Thinking Aloud ABSOLUTES AND MY GRANDFATHER'S AUNT SARAH BY ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS When my grandfather Davis' little sister died, their Aunt Sarah on Cape Cod was saddened but relieved. Young...
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At the Presidential Starting Gate Life of the Party: Democratic Prospects in 1988 and Beyond By Robert Kuttner Viking. 265 pp. $18.95. The New Season: A Spectator's Guide to the 1988...
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Probing Law's Contradictions A Guide to Critical Legal Studies By Mark Kelman Harvard. 360pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Clare Dalton Assistan t professor, Harvard Law School; member,...
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Vol. 070 Issue 019 (December 14 1987)
Suburbia Today
