Desire II

Rachel Hadas

Art in Public

Michael D. Hall

A Hundred Won Dalmations

Patricia Vigderman

Meet Stanley Richardson

Helen Epstein

Theater Preview

Jon Lipsky

Over the Transom

Daniel Harris

At the Pawnshop

Yasunari Kawabata

“The Whitsun Weddings”

Sven Birkerts

New Hurdles

Susan Quinn

Reviewed:

Cutting the Mustard: Affirmative Action and the Nature of Excellence

by Marjorie Heins. Faber and Faber, 1987.

Women of Academe: Outsiders in the Sacred Grove

by Nadya Aisenberg and Mona Harrington. University of Massachusetts Press, 1988.

Groping Toward Entropy

Gail Mazur

Film Preview

Gerald Peary

Art Preview

Amy Lighthill

Music Preview

Anthony Tommasini

Brief Reviews

Reviewed:

The New Confessions

by William Boyd. William Morrow & Co., 1988.

A Walk with Tom Jefferson

by Philip Levine. Knopf, 1988.

Mama Day

by Gloria Naylor. Ticknor and Fields, 1988.

Chasing Shadows

by Louisa Dawkins. Houghton Mifflin, 1988.