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Reviews

Poets on the fringe

by Hayden Carruth,

The breadth of sensibility

Naipaul’s losers

by Paul Zweig,

Diversions for children

by Selma G. Lanes,

Vulgar, Coarse, and Grotesque

by Alison Lurie,

The constructs of a conservative

by Walter Karp,

At odds with the republic

Robbins’s commercial art

by Gene Lyons,

The rewards of vulgarity

Degenerate criticism

by Peter Shaw,

The dismal state of English studies

Styron’s heavy freight

by John W. Aldridge,

Sex, guilt, and the Holocaust too

Gooseflesh

by Ron Rosenbaum,

The strange turn toward horror

Extreme unction

by A. Lawrence Chickering,

The President and the bishop

Collective dread

by Paul Zweig,

The literature of doom

Literary vogues

by Bryan F. Griffin,

Getting Cheever while he's hot

The traffic in words

by Hugh Kenner,

No place for the avant-garde

Bound to sell

by Harper’s Staff,

Pretenders to power

by Henry Fairlie,

The pen is not the sword

Victims of Yalta

by Andrei Alekseevich Amalrik,

The fatal repatriation of Russian soldiers

Impetus and invention

by Hayden Carruth,

Poetic tradition and the individual talent

Goodness incarnate

by Terrence Des Pres,

Sheltering Jews in Vichy France

Hollywood’s war

by Tom Buckley,

The Deer Hunter invents cruelties to sell Vietnam

Theater

by Harper’s Staff,

Sondheim’s little deaths

by John Lahr,

The ironic mode and its discontents

Cozying up to Clio

by Timothy Foote,

The deceits of black humor

by John W. Aldridge,

An ounce of reality is worth a jar of pickled angst

Ordinary miracles

by Christopher Porterfield,

The limbo of literacy

by Frances Taliaferro,

Aesthetic suicide

by Katha Pollitt,

The hunter and the hunted

by James Atlas,

Books in brief

by Byron Farwell, Frances Taliaferro, Jeffrey Burke,

Boy’s life

by Deborah McGill,

For further reading

by Harper’s Staff,

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