Reviewed:

Miss Manners’ Guide to the Turn-of-the-Millennium

by Judith Martin. Pharos Books, 1989.

Mayflower Manners: Etiquette for Consenting Adults

by Sydney Biddle Barrows and Ellis Weiner. Doubleday, 1989.

Manners from Heaven: A Divine Guide to Good Behavior

by Quentin Crisp with John Hofsess. Harper and Row, 1984.

How to Talk with a Partner about SMART SEX

by Bernie Zilbergeld, Ph.D., and Lonnie Barbach, Ph.D. Fay Institute, 1989.

Winning the Restaurant Game

by Jay Jacobs. McGraw-Hill, 1980.

The Lady’s Guide to Perfect Gentility

by Emily Thornwell. The Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1984.

A Dictionary of Etiquette: A Guide to Polite Usage for All Social Functions

by W. C. Green. Brentanos, 1908.

Reviewed:

Rabbit at Rest

by John Updike. Knopf, 1990.

Reviewed:

In the Western Night

by Frank Bidart. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990.

The Want Bone

by Robert Pinsky. Ecco Press, 1990.

Selected Poems, 1966-1987

by Seamus Heaney. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1990.

Reviewed:

Channel

by Barbara Jordan. Beacon Press, 1990.

Celeste Goes Dancing and Other Stories: An Argentine Collection

edited and translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni with Susan Ashe. North Point Press, 1990.