The Gangplank
Charles Edward Eaton
The Candidate Factory
Todd Gitlin
Art Preview
Amy Lighthill
Party
Joyce Carol Oates
Getting through America
Saul Bellow
The Poverty Feature
Carolee Morrison
A Poet’s Sampler
Ha Jin
Meet Sue Miller
Helen Epstein
Travelers in a Golden Age
Gail Pool
New Age Travelers
George Packer
Sweet Mysteries of Life
Alexandra Marshall
Theater Preview
Kathleen Patrick
The Trouble with Rich Folks
Paul Buttenweiser
Film Preview
Gerald Peary
Music Preview
Anthony Tommasini
Brief Reviews
Reviewed:
Curfew
by Jose Donoso, translated by Alfred MacAdam. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
Fatal Light
by Richard Currey. E. P. Dutton, 1988.
Laughing at Gravity: Conversations with Isaac Newton
by Elizabeth Socolow. Beacon Press, 1988.
Memoir of a Modernist’s Daughter
by Eleanor Munro. Viking Press, 1988.