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.