The Burning House

Michael J. Rosen

Prime Time Comedy

David Marc

Inside Book Reviewing

Gail Pool

Summer Preview: Film

Gerald Peary

A Tanglewood Summer

Helen Epstein

In a Memo, Colette Bids Herself, Adieu

Dieter Weslowski

When the Belfast Boys Hit Boston

Shaun O’Connell

Champions of Humanity or What the Aspirin Bottle Knows

Christopher Benfey

Reviewed:

Obbligati: Essays in Criticism

by Anthony Hecht. Atheneum, 1986.

Romanticism and Contemporary Criticism

edited by Morris Eaves and Michael Fischer. Cornell University Press, 1986.

Adam’s Task: Calling Animals by Name

by Vicki Hearne. Knopf, 1986.

Realism, Writing, Disfiguration: On Thomas Eakins and Stephen Crane

by Michael Fried. University of Chicago Press, 1987.

The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World

by Elaine Scarry. Oxford University Press, 1985.

Summer Preview: Art

Joseph Masheck

Summer Preview: Theater

Sandy Cohen

Bourgeois Beer

John LeVert

Summer Preview: Boston

Guild Nichols

Summer Preview: Music

Anthony Tommasini

A Poet’s Sampler

Paul Hannigan

Forms of Resistance

Robert Polito

Reviewed:

An Alternative to Speech

by David Lehman. Princeton University Press, 1986.

Ecstatic Occasions, Expedient Forms

edited by David Lehman. Macmillan, 1987.

Brief Reviews

Reviewed:

Mrs. Randall

by Christopher T. Leland. Houghton Mifflin, 1987.

Less Than One: Selected Essays

by Joseph Brodsky. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1986.

The Minute Hand

by Jane Shore. University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.

Continent

by Jim Crace. Harper & Row, 1986.

Walking Distance

by Marian Thurm. Random House, 1987.