The Critic in Arms

Clive James

Interviewing Frederick Wiseman

Alan Stern

The Count

Alan V. Hewat

Reviewed:

The World of Count Basie

by Stanley Dance. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1980.

Secrets of Other Lives

Martha Saxton

Reviewed:

True Love and Perfect Union: The Feminist Reform of Sex and Society

by William Leach. Basic Books, 1980.

Alice James: A Biography

by Jean Strouse. Houghton Mifflin, 1980.

The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

edited by Ann J. Lane. Pantheon, 1980.

The Ethnocentric Icon

Estelle Jussim

Emily Dickinson: The First Modern

David Porter

Erasing the Thirties

Alan Wald

Why Pornography?

Patricia Wild

Reconnaissance

Rachel Hadas

Midpoint

Charles Simic

Host

Octavio Paz

The Politics of Hungarian Film

Steven Kovacs

John Lennon: 1940—1980