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.