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Books

The last true samurai

by Donald Richie,

Literary life among the Dinka

by Earl Shorris,

Suffering a sea-change

by Suzanne Mantell,

Hermann Hesse’s ironic revival

by Edgar Zodiag Friedenberg,

Books

by Irving Howe,

From art to avarice

by Alden Whitman,

The sad fate of America's upper-crust brothels

The well-spoken passions of William H. Gass

by Earl Shorris,

A market for snake oil

by Alden Whitman,

Marx is dead

by Richard Schickel,

Chester Kallman

by W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden,

A voice of importance

Truth and/or fairness in the news

by Nelson W. Polsby,

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

by Earl Shorris,

The alchemy of history

LBJ

by Garry Wills,

He who gets slapped

Sylvia Plath

by Irving Howe,

A partial disagreement

Joan Didion

by Alfred Kazin,

Portrait of a professional

An operatic version of reality

by Loudon Wainwright,

Slightly less than the speed of sound

by Larry DuBois,

It’s a mystery

by John Thompson,

Slaves, pioneers, and women

by Irving Howe,

The future

by John Thompson,

Who wants it?

A gathering of good works

by Irving Howe,

A hundred years of Howells

by John Thompson,

Ballet for the man who enjoys Wallace Stevens

by Irving Howe,

The truth which dares not speak its name

by Richard Schickel,

Isak Dinesen, Baroness Blixen

by John Thompson,

The first Panther she ever met

by Irving Howe,

Mann’s letters

by John Thompson,

The middle-class mind of Kate Millett

by Irving Howe,

Away from it all

by John Thompson,

Great man going down

by Irving Howe,

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