Human
Debra Nystrom
As the Dial Turns
Noel Carroll
Meet Ken Brecher
Helen Epstein
Poetry Comes to PBS
David Thorburn
Art Preview
Amy Lighthill
Dear Hearts and Gentle People
Edith Pearlman
The Case of the Missing Composers
David Noble
The Most General Trend We Know Is Speciation, Annie Dillard
Kay Ryan
A Poet’s Sampler
Michael Hoffman
Growing Up With Jo
Gail Mazur
Reviewed:
The Selected Letters of Louisa May Alcott
edited by Joel Myerson and Daniel Shealy. Little, Brown, & Co., 1987.
Poetic Translation
Jay Boggis
Reviewed:
Selected Poems, 1954-1986
by Tomas Transömer, edited by Robert Hass. Ecco, 1987.
War Music: An Account of Books 16 to 19 of Homer’s Iliad
by Christopher Logue. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987.
Film Preview
Gerald Peary
Theater Preview
Jonathan Lipsky
Brief Reviews
Reviewed:
The Squanicook Eclogues
by Melissa Green. W. W. Norton & Co., 1987.
Tending to Virginia
by Jill McCorkle. Algonquin Books, 1987.
Three Nights in the Heart of the Earth
by Brett Laidlaw. W. W. Norton & Co., 1988.
Turtle, Swan
by Mark Doty. David R. Godine, 1987.
The Nihilesthete
by Richard Kalich. Permanent Press, 1987.
Music Preview
Anthony Tommasini
Sex and Death on Sullivan Street
Ruth Danon
