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Book reviews

The vital center did not hold

by John Lukacs,

Arthur Schlesinger's diaries reveal a blindness to the changing political landscape

by John Leonard,

by Robert Boyers,

Nadine Gordimer does as she pleases

by Arthur Krystal,

by William H. Gass,

Malcolm Lowry's cinema inferno

by John Gray,

Secular fantasies of a godless age

by John Lukacs,

A tragic history of a divided people

by Wyatt Mason,

John Updike and the book-review bugaboo

by John Leonard,

by Terry Eagleton,

Thomas Hardy and the limits of biographies

by Mark Kingwell,

How architecture went from radical to chic