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Eyes Wide Shut

by Lee Siegel,

What the critics failed to see in Kubrick’s last film

It’s globalicious! Two servings, half-baked, of the new economy

by Thomas Frank,

Thus spoke Jedediah

by Roger D. Hodge,

The distilled wisdom of a cornpone prophet

I know why the caged bird cannot read

by Francine Prose,

How American high school students learn to loathe literature

Unlikely stories

by Vince Passaro,

The quiet renaissance of American short fiction

The reanimators

by Jonathan Dee,

On the art of literary graverobbing

Unmaking Friends

by Christopher Hitchens,

Norman Podhoretz as crumb

The old man and the manuscript

by Tom Jenks,

Hemingway, in his last book, writes his own sad epitaph

The criminal within

by Albert Mobilio,

A genre of how-to manuals indulges our darkest fantasies

The unsparing vision of Don Delillo

by Vince Passaro,

In his new novel, Underworld, an American fresco

Made men of letters

by Albert Mobilio,

Our thing about the Cosa Nostra

Black letters on a white page

by Vince Passaro,

In a new compendium of African American literature, a world of politics

The Encyclopedia of Insanity

by L. J. Davis,

A psychiatric handbook lists a madness for everyone

A flapping of scolds

by Vince Passaro,

The literary establishment descends on T.S. Eliot

Dragon fiction

by Vince Passaro,

The (very lucrative) advent of the Christian thriller

Cliffhangers

by Bruce Barcott,

The fatal descent of the mountain-climbing memoir

To make a cow laugh

by Gene Lyons,

A bad book about the phony Whitewater scandal

New flash from an old isle

by Vince Passaro,

Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel exhibits Britain's literary vigor

Modern Victorians

by Marilynne Robinson,

Dressing politics in the costume of history

Notions of ideas. Intellectual histories, fine and rare

by Carlin Romano,

Bring on the night. The stellar ambitions of the new astronomers

by Laurence A. Marschall,

Childhood Found, Weight Lost

by Stanley W. Lindberg,

Two books on the lam from genre

Berlin’s Mauerkrankheit

by Suzanne Gordon,

For some Berliners the Wall has become an obsession

The movies

by Harper’s Staff,

The lyric odyssey of Alain Tanner

by Todd Gitlin,

The blind side of the heart

by Rhoda Koenig,

Two Irish novels of seduction and betrayal

The movies

by Harper’s Staff,

Hollywood on the line

by Patricia Aufderheide,

Brief reviews

by Benjamin D. Singer,

Brief reviews

by J. S.,

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Eyes Wide Shut

It’s globalicious! Two servings, half-baked, of the new economy

Thus spoke Jedediah

I know why the caged bird cannot read

Unlikely stories

The reanimators

Unmaking Friends

The old man and the manuscript

The criminal within

The unsparing vision of Don Delillo

Made men of letters

Black letters on a white page

The Encyclopedia of Insanity

A flapping of scolds

Dragon fiction

Cliffhangers

To make a cow laugh

New flash from an old isle

Modern Victorians

Notions of ideas. Intellectual histories, fine and rare

Bring on the night. The stellar ambitions of the new astronomers

Childhood Found, Weight Lost

Berlin’s Mauerkrankheit

The movies

The lyric odyssey of Alain Tanner

The blind side of the heart

The movies

Hollywood on the line

Brief reviews

Brief reviews

October 1999

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