Desire
Rachel Hadas
TV Families—Three Generations of Packaged Dreams
Ella Taylor
Europe’s Mega-Shows
Gabriella de Ferrari and Raymond J. Learsy
Graham Greene as I Almost Knew Him
Richard Elman
Reinventing America
John Tirman
Music Preview
Anthony Tommasini
The Language of Film
John Gianvito
Reviewed:
Sculpting in Time: Reflections on the Cinema
by Andrei Tarkovsky, translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair. Knopf, 1987.
A Poet’s Sampler
Norman Williams
Conversations with Isabella
Susan W. Paine
Reviewed:
The Letters of Bernard Berenson and Isabella Stewart Gardner, 1887-1924
edited and annotated by Rollin Van N. Hadley. Northeastern University Press, 1987.
Robert Lowell and the Last Romantics
Sven Birkerts
Reviewed:
Manic Power: Robert Lowell and His Circle
by Jeffrey Meyers. Arbor House, 1987.
Souvenir
Stuart Dischell
Art Preview
Stuart Masheck
Talking Star Wars
Richard Ellison
Reviewed:
From Deterrence to Defense: The Inside Story of Strategic Policy
by Michael Charlton. Harvard University Press, 1987.
1930: Scenic views
Octavio Paz
Speaking Their Minds
Megan Marshall
Reviewed:
The Sound of Our Own Voices: Women’s Study Clubs, 1860-1910
by Theodora Penny Martin. Beacon Press, 1987.
Theater Preview
Jonathan Lipsky
Brief Reviews
Reviewed:
Their Pride and Joy
by Paul Buttenwieser. Delacorte Press, 1987.
Heredity
by Patricia Storace. Beacon Press, 1987.
Illumination Night
by Alice Hoffman. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1987.