Present Tense, Past Perfect

Sven Birkerts

Art Preview

Israel Feather

Face The Music

Scott Wheeler

Annals of the Death of the Humanities

David Marc

Music Preview

Anthony Tommasini

The Kryptonite Connection

David Mamet

Separate States

Cecelia Tichi

Reviewed:

Bend this Heart

by Jonis Agee. Coffee House Press, 1989.

Better Get your Angel On

by Jennifer Allen. Knopf, 1989.

Girl with Curious Hair

by David Foster Wallace. Norton, 1989.

New Stories by Southern Women

edited by Mary Ellis Gibson. University of South Carolina Press, 1989.

A Following

Richard Elman

Serial Oranges

Don Monaco

They Had Been Waiting to Sing for Some Time

Sonya Michel

Reviewed:

Balancing Acts: Contemporary Stories by Russian Women

edited by Helena Goscilo. Indiana University Press, 1989.

The Human Experience: Contemporary American and Society Fiction and Poetry

edited by the Soviet/American Joint Editorial Committee of the Quaker US/USSR Committee. Alfred A. Knopf, 1989.

The New Soviet Fiction: Sixteen Short Stories

compiled by Sergei Zalygin. Abbeville Press, 1989.

Film Preview

Gerald Peary

Like

Suzanne Matson

Theater Preview

Jon Lipsky

Brief Reviews

Reviewed:

Serpent

by Nicholas Mosley. Dalkey Archive Press, 1989.

Human Wishes

by Robert Hass. Ecco Press, 1989.

Indian Nocturne

by Antonio Tabucchi. New Directions, 1989.

The Downfall of the Gods

by Villy Sørensen. University of Nebraska Press, 1989.