Spring Books THE ELIOTIC KENNAN BY BARRY GEWEN Any person who decides to publish excerpts from his diaries runs a serious risk of self-indulgence, and George F. Kennan is no exception....
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Stranger than Fiction Mad Dreams, Saving Graces: Poland: A Nation in Conspiracy By Michael T. Kaufman Random House. 267 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Stanislaw Baranczak Alfred Jurzykowski...
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Gorbachev's Gamble The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and 'Glasnost' By Walter Laqueur Scribner's. 325 pp. $21.95. 'Perestroika' in Perspective: The Design and Dilemmas of Soviet Reform By...
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Manipulating Threads Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA By Edward Jay Epstein Simon and Schuster. 335 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Yehudah Mirsky Writer, political...
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A Spy Is a Spy The Russia House By John le Carré Knopf. 352 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Walter Goodman John le Carre is a virtuoso of deception—not just the finaglings among nations,...
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Culture Watching THE WOMAN BEHIND THE SONGS BY JOHN SIMON Lotte Lenya is known to those who care about 20th-century theater and music as the actresssinger married to Kurt Weill and...
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The United States and Nicaragua Somoza Falling: The Nicaraguan Dilemma By Anthony Lake Houghton Mifflin. 224 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Paul Berman Contributor, "Village Voice, " "Dissent,"...
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Facing the Japanese Challenge More Like Us: Making America Great Again By James Fallows Houghton Mifflin. 245 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Jagdish Bhagwati Arthur Lehman Professor of...
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On Poetry AMERICAN BARDS BY PHOEBE PETTINGELL When not ignoring poets, Americans treat them alternately with extremes of distrust or reverence. Our native bards have attracted more attention...
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Bold and Witty Borrowings Twice Told Tales By Daniel Stern Paris Review Editions/ British American Publishing. 173 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Norma Rosen Author of the forthcoming novel,...
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Fearful Fantasies Emily L. By Marguerite Duras Translated by Barbara Bray Pantheon. 112 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Hope Hale Davis Author, "The Dark Way to the Plaza" In a 1967 Cahiers du...
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