The Decline of Boston’s Arts

William A. Henry III

Poet to Poet

Richard Tillinghast

Our Man in Vietnam

Ernest R. May

Reviewed:

Why Vietnam? Prelude to America’s Albatross

by Archimedes A. L. Patti. University of California Press, 1980.

The War that Won’t End

Frances Fitzgerald

Reviewed:

Nam: The Vietnam War in the Words of the Men Who Fought There

by Mark Baker. William Morrow and Co., 1981.

Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty-Three American Soldiers Who Fought It

by Al Santoli. Random House, 1981.

Inside the Death Factory

Christine L. Kane

An Exile’s Report

Doan Van Toai

An Interview with Tim O’Brien

Elyse Topalian

Miles Davis in Retrospect

Michael Ullman

The Royal Road to Drawing

Estelle Jussim

Reviewed:

Fox Talbot and the Invention of Photography

by Gail Buckland. David R. Godine, 1980.

For Export Only?

Joshua Rubenstein

Reviewed:

Heavy Sand

by Anatoly Rybakov. Viking, 1981.

High Hopes

Art Jahnke

Reviewed:

High in America: The True Story Behind NORML and the Politics of Marijuana

by Patrick Anderson

Beauty and the Best

Don Lessem

Reviewed:

Peter Lupus’ Celebrity Body Book: A Body Improvement Guide for Men and Women

by Peter Lupus and Samuel Homola. Parker Publishing Company, 1980.

How to Renovate Yourself from Head to Toe: A Step-by-Step Program to Develop and Improve Every Aspect of Your Body

by Oleda Baker. Doubleday, 1980.

The Mature Man’s Guide to Style: Diet, Exercise, Fashion, and Grooming for a Man’s Best Years

by Bill Gale. Morrow, 1980.

Looking Great, Staying Young

by Dick Clark with Bill Lubby. Bobbs Merrill, 1980.

On and Off Newbury Street

Susan Montgomery