Homelands

Adam Hochschild

Is There a Post-Modern Music?

Arthur Berger

Emily’s Ghost

Debra Nystrom

Mule

Joyce Carol Oates

God’s Little Helpers?

Edward M. Brecher

Of Course

Phyllis Janowitz

a.k.a. Elvis Costello

Robert Polito

A Poet’s Sampler

L. E. Sissman

An Affair with Flaubert

Sven Birkerts

Reviewed:

The Perpetual Orgy: Flaubert and Madame Bovary

by Mario Vargas Llosa, translated by Helen Lane. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987.

Wild Asters

Celia Gilbert

Brief Reviews

Reviewed:

Under a Cruel Star: A Life in Prague, 1941-1968

by Heda Margolius Kovaly, translated Helen Epstein. Plunkett Lake Press, 1986.

The Object of My Affection

by Stephen McCauley. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

The Marriage Hearse

by Larry Duberstein. Second Chance Press, 1987.

Works on Paper

by Eliot Weinberger. New Directions, 1986.

The Last Song of Manuel Sendero

by Ariel Dorfman, translated by George R. Shivers with the author. Viking Penguin, 1987.

In the Country of Last Things

by Paul Auster. Viking Press, 1987.