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.