The Pen in the First Person

Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver

“Yours, Samuel Beckett”

Mark Axelrod

A Mistaken Charity

Mary Wilkins Freeman

City Arts

Notes on Architecture

James F. O’Gorman

“The Fighting Photo-Secession”

Estelle Jussim

Letter from Montreal

Marty Jezer

The California Dante

John Freccero

Reviewed:

Inferno: First Book of The Divine Comedy

by Dante Aligheri, translated by Allen Mandelbaum. University of California Press, 1980.

Purgatorio: Second Book of The Divine Comedy

by Dante Aligheri, translated by Allen Mandelbaum. University of California Press, 1982.

Books in Brief

Reviewed:

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

edited and translated by Stephen Mitchell. Random House, 1982.

Rabbits, Crabs, Etc.: Stories by Japanese Women

translated by Phyllis Birnbaum. University of Hawaii Press, 1982.

This Kind of Woman: Ten Stories by Japanese Women Writers, 1960—1976

translated by Yukiko Tanaka and Elizabeth Hanson. Stanford University Press, 1982.

Faulkner’s “Negro”: Art and the Southern Context

by Thadious M. Davis. Louisiana State University Press, 1983.

Faulkner’s Search for a South

by Walter Taylor. University of Illinois Press, 1982.

Letters

by Sylvia Townsend Warner, edited by William Maxwell. Viking Press, 1983.

Son of the Revolution

by Liang Heng and Judith Shapiro. Knopf, 1983.