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-- by Erma J. Fisk
In Cape Cod Journal Erma J. Fisk is still banging around with reckless disregard for lost hearing, her gimpy leg, and now a bad heart that threatens to subtract her from the world at the drop of a Balchatri bird trap.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, 1990. |
A HISTORY OF DOGS IN THE EARLY AMERICAS
-- by Marion Schwartz
Schwartz is a physical anthropologist who describes herself as ''not a dog person.'' Somehow she got interested in studying the thousands of different images and myths and rituals involving dogs in the pre-Columbian Americas.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, August 10, 1997. |
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A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT
-- by Norman Maclean. film adaptation by Robert Redford
"In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing."
Smithsonian, September 1992. |
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A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE: ALGERIA 1954-1962
-- by Alistair Horne
An English historian who specializes in French disaster—Verdun, the Paris Commune, the defeat of 1940—Horne has painstakingly, fairly, skillfully pieced together the whole anguishing chronicle of the Algerian war.
Harpers Magazine, August 1978. |
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A SORT OF LIFE
-- by Graham Greene
Few writers have been so successfully failure-haunted as Greene himself. No novelist, either, has grown so rich or so critically secure by dramatizing spiritual insecurity.
Time, September 27, 1971. |
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A WORLD AWAY
-- by Stewart O'Nan
''A World Away'' at first comes on like a clear case of déjà vu all over again. Not to worry, though. If O'Nan has a genius, it is for intricately overlapping streams of consciousness that rove back and forth, creating past and present with fleeting hints about the characters' lives that a reader needs to watch for like clues buried in a detective story.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 21, 1998. |
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ALL HEAVEN IN A RAGE
-- by Maureen Duffy
Duffy explores Blake's romantic notion that men and animals are similar victims of a society that, practically from birth, puts them both in a series of cages.
Time, April 30, 1973. |
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AMERICAN EDUCATION: THE METROPOLITAN EXPERIENCE
-- by Lawrence A. Cremin
This book seems lamentable in nearly every way. A key reason is Cremin's impossibly broad definition of his subject. For the book's purposes, he insists, education is nothing less than the "sustained effort to transmit, evoke, or acquire knowledge, values, attitudes, skills, and sensibilities, as well as any learning that results from that effort, direct or indirect, intended or unintended."
Washington Post Book World, March 27, 1988. |
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AMERICAN VIOLENCE, A DOCUMENTARY HISTORY
-- by Richard Hofstadter and Michael Wallace
The difficulty lies in being reasonably sure, before the event, that the evil will indeed be ended and not exacerbated or succeeded by some equal or greater evil. For this reason all politicians, revolutionary no less than establishment politicians, must work with a terrible calculus in human misfortune.
Time, November 23, 1970. |
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ANOTHER COUNTRY
-- by James Baldwin
In an earlier essay called "Everybody's Protest Novel," Baldwin insisted that the novelist, black or white, whether he is dealing with raw-skinned minority groups or not, has no excuse for bad writing or the use of sociological stick figures. He must instead work in the mysterious "web of ambiguity, paradox, hunger, darkness" which is individual character. But Baldwin falls into the error that he deplores.
Time, June 29, 1962. |
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APOLLINAIRE
-- by Francis Steegmuller.
This carefully contrived book is likely to please best only those readers who know least about Apollinaire, but who are delighted to dip into a nicely, often spicily, written story about a fin de siècle Villon who smoked opium, palled around with Picasso, Matisse and Braque and (in 1911) got arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa.
Time, November 29, 1963 |
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ATLAS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
-- Maps selection and commentary by Kenneth Nebenzahl, Text by Don Higginbotham
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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AUGUST 1914
-- by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by MICHAEL GLENN
August 1914 is the first of a many-volumed effort by Solzhenitsyn to re-create modern Russian history in truthful fiction.
Time, September 25, 1972. |
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AUTHOR FROM A SAVAGE PEOPLE
-- by Bette Pesetsky
No one so far has tried what Bette Pesetsky gets away with in this savage, funny small novel - that is, using ghostwriting as a metaphor to dramatize the view that women do most of the work of creation while men (unfairly) get most of the credit.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, March 27, 1983. |
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MALCOLM X, The
-- with the assistance of Alex Haley
His will and testament reveasl Malcolm X as the most fascinating, convincing and, in some ways, the most measured speaker and thinker that the black militant movement has yet produced.
Time, February 23, 1970. |
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BEST OF LIFE, The
-- compiled by Time-Life Books
700 great pictures from LIFE for readers, leafers-through, photography fans born and unborn, future historians, unabashed lovers of LIFE, nearly everybody's children, in fact nearly everybody.
Time, September 10, 1973. |
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BILLIARDS AT HALF PAST NINE
-- by Heinrich Böll
In the past two years, the growing success of three writers—Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll and Uwe Johnson—has signaled a change. Linked with a maverick literary movement known as Group 47, they know that the dramatic story of Nazi Germany must lie not with the wolves but in the everyday lives of the lambs—those many individuals whose accumulation of fear, self-protective indifference or private greed let it all happen.
Time, January 4, 1963. |
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BLACK CARGOES
-- by Daniel P. Mannix with Malcolm Cowley
Daniel Mannix has produced a carefully understated but chilling account of the centuries (1518 to 1865) during which 15 million Africans were snatched from their homes and delivered into slavery in the New World.
Time, November 2, 1962. |
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BLACK CONCEIT
-- by John Leonard
In which reality destroys illusion.
Time, December 31, 1973. |
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BORROWED YEARS, 1939 TO 1941, The
-- by Richard M. Ketchum
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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BUCKING THE SUN
-- by Ivan Doig
The good news about "Bucking the Sun" is that here Mr. Doig artfully seasons the history lesson by serving it up with an intricate case of murder.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 16, 1996. |
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BURTON
-- by Byron Farwell
As Author Farwell blandly puts it, "the only vice he did not practice was gambling."
Time, February 28, 1964. |
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CAMBERWELL BEAUTY AND OTHER STORIES, The
-- by V.S. Pritchett
Pritchett's stories, meanwhile, regularly throb with the same grotesque scenes and sensuous memories as his life, recollected with a comic clarity and shrewd indulgence.
Time, September 16, 1974. |
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CANCER WARD, The
-- by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Stripped of all illusions by years of war, prison, exile, poverty and sickness, the Solzhenitsyn figure uncompromisingly asserts that modern man can arm himself against the fear of death only with life itself. He must do so by reducing life to complete simplicity, seeing it with unblinking honesty but loving and prizing it nevertheless.
Time, November 8. 1968. |
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CAT AND MOUSE
-- by Günter Grass
Through the muted and melancholy chronicle of Mahlke's brief life, Grass seems to say that deformed or not, man can burn with the likeness of a shapely aspiration.
Time, August 23, 1963. |
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CAT'S PAJAMAS & WITCH'S MILK, The
-- by Peter De Vries
De Vries's newest book combines a long short novel with an extended short story. This is an experiment at contrapuntal fiction, for the two tales are linked in a number of ways
Time, November 15, 1968. |
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CHEKHOV
-- by Ernest J. Simmons
Chekhov, who lived from 1860 to 1904, was ahead of his literary time.
Time, October 19, 1962. |
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CITIES OF THE FLESH
-- by Zoe Oldenbourg
The trouble with Cities of the Flesh is that the real history is so compelling that the histrionics of her characters sometimes seem frivolous and shoddy intrusions.
Time, September 6, 1963. |
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CITIZENS: A CHRONICLE OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
-- by Simon Schama
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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CLOCKWORK TESTAMENT OR ENDERBY'S END, The
-- by Anthony Burgess
Burgess, a man of wit and genius, has been fond enough of this queasy minor poet to devote one, two and now three volumes to him. Why? Because with all his faults, Enderby is a strong booster of original sin, a commodity, Burgess feels, the modern world greatly underrates.
Time, March 17, 1975. |
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COMPANY, The
-- by John Ehrlichman
Ehrlichman's novel is sure to be grasped by his still frustrated countrymen in hopes of gathering a few more shards of information about the political hecatomb that was the Nixon White House. On that account prospective buyers of The Company should beware. A Washington roman à clef it is; a full-scale Watergate book it is not. Ehrlichman is clearly using fiction as an extension of politics by other means.
Time, May 31, 1976. |
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CONQUEST OF LONDON and THE MIDDLE YEARS, Vols. II & III of HENRY JAMES, The
-- by Leon Edel
The most massive piece of biographical scholarship ever lavished on an American author, written as gracefully as a mannered memoir.
Time, November 30, 1962. |
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CONUNDRUM
-- by Jan Morris
After undergoing a transsexual operation in Casablanca to shed his manhood and the name James, Morris now lives in Bath, England, under the name Jan Morris, happily experimenting with lipstick, twin sweater sets and pearls. The pre-Casablanca James Morris seemed one of the least likely people on earth—possibly excepting Joe Namath—who would want to start life anew in a skirt.
Time, April 22, 1974. |
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CRY HUNGARY! Uprising 1956
-- by Reg Gadney
Cry Hungary! is a popular, headlong narrative running from Oct. 23, 1956, when thousands of students and workers marched to the parliament to present a petition, through Nov. 4 when Russian troops crushed the uprising at the command of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. By contrast, Professor Charles Gati's judicious and often graceful study, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc, etches in some of Hungary's 19th- and 20th-century history before moving on to the background of the 1956 uprising and what has been happening since in Hungary, Moscow and the Soviet Union's East European bloc in general.
Washington Post Book World, December 21, 1986. |
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DARE CALL IT TREASON
-- by Richard M. Watt
This weird moment of chaos, when France almost lost a war by losing control of her exhausted troops, is the subject of Dare Call It Treason, the latest in the recent flood of histories about World War I.
Time, May 17, 1963. |
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DECLINE OF THE WEST, The
-- by Oswald Spengler
Often damned but still cited (the very title can turn a whole evening into disputation), it is still a provocative and often dazzling book.
Time, May. 25, 1962 |
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DOG'S BEST FRIEND Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship
-- by Mark Derr
For 15,000 years man has fed and bred dogs out of the original wolf stock to do whatever man wants. The range and variety of this collaboration are startling. It is, moreover -- and this is a major thrust of Derr's broad-gauge book -- still evolving in all sorts of remarkable ways.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, August 10, 1997.
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DREAMS IN THE MIRROR
-- by Richard S. Kennedy
This is the first full-scale scholarly biography of e.e.cummings. Partly because of cummings's character, reading it is a bit like wrestling in a boxcar full of feathers. The cargo is ticklish, and there is precious little weight for the volume.
Time, March 17, 1980. |
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EHRENGARD
-- by Isak Dinesen
Told half in the recollections of a worldly old lady, half in the florid letters of an artist to a countess of the court, Isak Dinesen's baroque tale chronicles an attempted seduction - but not of the usual sort.
Time, June 14, 1963. |
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ELIZABETH APPLETON
-- by John O'Hara
The experiment may be merely an attempt to put old wine into a slightly new bottle. It is not vintage O'Hara, but the vineyard is unmistakable.
Time, June 7, 1963. |
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ENCHANTED PLACES, The
-- by Christopher Milne
If Christopher Milne's life has not exactly been blasted by Pooh and Mummy, it has had its melancholy moments, and with both parents now dead, he has written a book.
Time, 1971.
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ENDING UP
-- by Kingsley Amis
Graham Greene once wrote that when trying to refine the pangs and foibles of men and women into fiction, a novelist must have a sliver of ice in his heart. A sliver of ice, yes. A lump of black bile, no. But critics and readers have remarked the spreading "swinishness" of Kingsley Amis characters—as well as the distaste the author seems to feel for his own creations.
Time, September 30, 1974. |
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EPISTLE TO A GODSON
-- by W.H. Auden
The poet, like many another brilliant soul, has concluded that we are in God's hand or nowhere.
Time, November 26, 1973. |
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FACES OF LIBERTY, The
-- by James Thomas Flexner and Linda Bantel Samter
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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FATHER'S DAY
-- by John Calvin Batchelor
The genre, of course, is subliterary -- spellbinding political thriller hoping to hatch into major motion picture.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, October 30, 1994. |
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FIFTIES, The
-- by David Halberstam
Happily for his readers, David Halberstam, the author of "The Best and the Brightest" and a string of best sellers, is a great reporter. His long, long thoughts are kept mercifully short. What he spends most of his time doing is presenting the 50s as a series of mini-biographies -- a sort of Dictionary of National Biography for the decade.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 20,1993. |
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FIRST CIRCLE, The
-- by Aleksandre Solzhenitsyn
In The First Circle, he has transformed the chronicle of four days in the lives of men and women associated with the Mavrino Institute, a Moscow scientific installation, into a thumbnail portrait of a whole society drowning in fear and hypocrisy.
Life Book Review, 1966. |
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FLY AND THE FLY BOTTLE
-- by Ved Mehta
The most charitable view of his book is that it is a bit too successful in communicating to the reader the author's own state of quizzical bemusement as he plunges into a metaphysical brier patch.
Time, July 12, 1963 |
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FOURTH OF JUNE, The
-- by David Benedictus
Especially in describing ancillary incidents and fringe characters, the author cannot repress a cheeky schoolboy's urge to shock the grownups. He succeeds.
Time, November 16, 1962. |
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FROM THE FIFTEENTH DISTRICT
-- by Mavis Gallant
Haunting, enigmatic, printed with images as sharp and durable as the edge of a new coin, relentlessly specific.
Time, November 26, 1979. |
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GEORGE ELIOT, A BIOGRAPHY
-- by Gordon S. Haight.
Time, October 11. 1968 |
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GEORGE WASHINGTON, MAN AND MONUMENT
-- by Marcus Cunliffe
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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GIRLS, The
-- by Henri de Montherlant
Few writers have warmed to the subject of anti-feminism with quite his unabashed verve and vitriol.
LIFE International, 1965. |
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GOD GAVE US THIS COUNTRY
--by Bill Gilbert
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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GOLDEN FRUITS, The
-- by Nathalie Saurraute
Miss Sarraute is a genuine minor genius, whose motto might be "They that live by the word shall perish by the word."
by Nathalie Sarraute. |
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GOY, The
-- by Mark Harris
The book is a study of the astonishing contrivances that men use to hold at bay whatever impulses they feel are base within themselves. It is a lifelong struggle, easily sabotaged by self-delusion and inextricably mixed motives.
LIFE Magazine, 1968. |
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GRAVE OF ALICE B. TOKLAS AND OTHER REPORTS FROM THE PAST, The
-- by Otto Friedrich
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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GREENMANTLE; JOHN MACNAB; THE HOUSE OF THE FOUR WINDS; CASTLE GAY
-- by John Buchan
Lionhearted Dick Hannay and dozens of other Buchan characters, whose World War I and between-wars exploits fill a score of volumes, go marching on, most recently in four books just released in the U.S. in paperback editions. Greenmantle, which involves an incipient jihad in the Near East, is by far the pick of the basket.
Time, December 28, 1962. |
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GRENDEL
-- by John Gardner
"My heart booms with terror." Yet as Novelist John Gardner retells the story, much of Grendel's pain is pure philosophical chagrin.
Time, September 20, 1971. |
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GULAG ARCHIPELAGO VOL I, The
-- by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney
Even if little comes of his advice, history may yet judge Solzhenitsyn a success - and not merely in the realm of art. For he is surely one of those towering witnesses thrown up by history (or God) in moments of crisis to remind the world that the pursuit of material progress is no way to the peace that passes understanding.
Time, July 15, 1974. |
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HAIL TO THE CHIEFS: How to Tell Your Polks From Your Tylers
-- by Barbara Holland
This Hollandaise saucy way with history has produced a book that hardly anybody I can think of should be without. Dinner guests can dine out on its comic asides. Historians can grin or grind their teeth at deadly serious stuff outrageously slighted. Any general reader so inclined will be able to read about the presidency for once without being told in sonorous prose how dangerously imperial, imperiled or impaled an institution it is -- though perhaps salvageable if only we take the writer's prescriptions to heart.
Washington Post Book World, June 24, 1990. |
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HARRY, THE RAT WITH WOMEN
-- by Jules Feiffer
What they all seek, of course, is love, love, love. Now, in a tragi-cosmic fable which is his first try at fiction, Feiffer tells them what life would be like if they really found it. Sheer hell.
Time, June 28. 1963. |
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HARVARD CENTURY: The Making of a University To a Nation, The
-- by Richard Norton Smith
It was important, for this reviewer at least, to remember that what Richard Norton Smith has set out to write is not a provocative, broad-gauged personal assessment but an essentially neutral, fact-stuffed, corporate history. The form has obvious limitations that become more glaring in the book's later stages when Harvard issues grow hotter and more immediate -- the faculty's contribution to the debacle of 1969, for instance, or teaching versus research, or Harvard's new "core curriculum," which isn't a core at all but a smorgasbord.
Washington Post Book World, August 24, 1986. |
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HAT ON THE BED, The
-- by John O'Hara
O'Hara is able to dip into the sounds and sights and thoughts of four decades of American life. "The United States in this century is what I know," he explained not long ago, "the way people talked and thought and felt. I want to get it all down while I can."
Time, November 22, 1963. |
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HERETICS, The
-- by Walter Nigg
In The Heretics, a vivid survey of the church's theological underground, he argues that Christianity owes much to its rebel sons, and has freely adapted ideas that first came to light in heretical guise.
Time, June 22, 1962. |
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HONORARY CONSUL, The
-- by Graham Greene
Not since THE END OF AN AFFAIR ("Dear God, you know I want your pain, but I don't want it now"), has Greene so baldly confronted the problem of God and evil, or the purpose, if any, of the horrors that God seems to visit alike upon those condemned to believe and those condemned to thirst after faith.
Time, September 17, 1973. |
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HOW IT IS
-- by Samuel Beckett
Despite Beckett's ingenuity, his touches of great eloquence, his flashes of brilliant wit, in this book he simply has nothing new to say. He had lots more to say and famously said it. But not in How It Is.
Time, February 28, 1964 |
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HOWE BROTHERS AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, The
-- by Ira Gruber
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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HUDSON RIVER, The
-- by Robert H. Boyle
The latest Jeremiah to join the prophets of ecological disaster is Robert Boyle, who is concerned with the Hudson River and man's efforts to turn this noble flood into a squalid sewer.
Time, April 27, 1970. |
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HUNGARY AND THE SOVIET BLOC
-- by Charles Gati
Cry Hungary! is a popular, headlong narrative running from Oct. 23, 1956, when thousands of students and workers marched to the parliament to present a petition, through Nov. 4 when Russian troops crushed the uprising at the command of Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. By contrast, Professor Charles Gati's judicious and often graceful study, Hungary and the Soviet Bloc, etches in some of Hungary's 19th- and 20th-century history before moving on to the background of the 1956 uprising and what has been happening since in Hungary, Moscow and the Soviet Union's East European bloc in general.
Washington Post Book World, December 21, 1986. |
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I HEARD THE OWL CALL MY NAME
-- by Margaret Craven
Miss Craven journeyed north by small boat from Vancouver into the Queen Charlotte Straits of British Columbia in search of adventure and material. Her trip ended at the top of King-come Inlet, in a village of the Kwakiutl Indians. Kingcome is a place of icy water, deep, fir-trimmed inlets, returning salmon, foraging killer whales, overwhelming beauty and, for the once proud Kwakiutls, overwhelming sadness.
Time, January 28. 1974. |
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IMPERIAL PRESIDENCY, The
-- by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
"Executive privilege" grew out of Truman's and Eisenhower's then much admired refusal to yield selected personnel files of Government employees to Senator Joe McCarthy. In just 20 years that modest Executive denial of information has been escalated by Richard Nixon to include all the deliberations and documents and conversations of 2.5 million Government employees.
Time, November 26, 1973. |
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INTO YOUR TENT I'LL CREEP
-- by Pefer De Vries
Plot is not Peter De Vries's thing. Neither is message. But he handles marriage with a fine affection, suggesting, among other things, that it is women who customarily treat men with chivalric restraint, rather than the other way around.
Time, October 30, 1994. |
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ISLANDS IN THE STREAM
-- by Ernest Hemingway
Islands in the Stream is in many ways a stunningly bad book. At his best, Ernest Hemingway the writer knew that Papa Hemingway the public figure was his own worst literary creation. One suspects he would have eventually got round to slashing Islands in the Stream back by a third or a half its present length. Yet for Papa watchers and Hemingway readers the book is welcome enough. Like the recent sale of backlot stage props from old Hollywood films, its publication seems a commendable act of commerce and nostalgic piety.
Time, October 5, 1970. |
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IT WASN'T PRETTY, FOLKS, BUT DIDN'T WE HAVE FUN? Esquire in the Sixties
-- by Carol Polsgrove
For anyone still interested in Esquire in the 1960s, Carol Polsgrove has put together an overindulgent but lively account of how the magazine, a "hot book" of that triumphant and disastrous decade, cheekily tried -- and eventually failed -- to be funny about it.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, August 13, 1995. |
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ITALIAN JOURNEY
-- by J. W. Goethe translated by W. H. Auden and Elizabeth Mayer
In attempts to make the formidable German more accessible, Auden and his collaborator, Elizabeth Mayer, have bypassed the nacreous brilliance of Goethe's complex imagery and the Gluhwein dark of such things as Faust, Part II. Instead they settled on Goethe's prose journal of his 20-month trip to Italy in 1786.
Time, November 23, 1962. |
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JEWEL IN THE CROWN, The
-- by Paul Scott
The author, far from merely unfolding an account of an isolated act of violence, has woven out of many voices and many contiguous lives a chronicle of the long, sometimes hopeful, often hateful relationship between Englishmen and Indians in what was British India.
LIFE Magazine, 1966. |
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JOHAH MAN, The
-- by Henry Carlisle
For over a century, "Moby Dick" has pretty well pre-empted whaling as a subject for serious fiction. Now comes ''The Jonah Man'' by Henry Carlisle, a San Francisco novelist with Nantucket roots, recording and re-creating as fiction the life and fate of the Essex' crew and especially its ill-starred captain, George Pollard.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, July 22, 1984 |
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JOHN KEATS
-- by Aileen Ward
Aileen Ward, who teaches at Sarah Lawrence, is briefer than Biographer Bate, less searching, more wrapped up in the psychology of such things as Keats's ambivalent feeling toward women.
Time, October 25, 1963. |
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JOHN KEATS
-- by Walter Jackson Bate
Bate sometimes detours through academic bogs, especially when he is taking the reader by the hand through every well-known poem Keats ever wrote.
Time, October 25, 1963. |
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JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL
-- by Richard Bach
"Find out what you love to do, and do your darndest to make it happen." A seagull is an unlimited idea of freedom, an image of the Great Gull, and your whole body, from wingtip to wingtip, is nothing more than your thought itself."
Time, November 13, 1972 |
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JOURNEY HOME: A WALK ABOUT ENGLAND
-- by John Hillaby
Hillaby's idea of a stroll is trekking all across Europe, or up the length of England from Land's End to John O'Groats. Anyone not permanently besotted with donnish asides and Merrye Englishness may cry out now and then against the chattiness of this long distance walker. For Hillaby is unabashed. Whenever he stops walking for a second he starts talking - and then puts it all in a book.
Washington Post Book World, September 23, 1984. |
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LASSO THE WIND
-- by Timothy Egan
"IN MY BOOK a pioneer is a man who turned all the grass upside down, strung bob-wire over the dust that was left, poisoned the water, cut down the trees, killed the Indian who owned the land and called it progress.''
New York Times Sunday Book Review, September 6, 1998 |
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LAST OF THE FATHERS: JAMES MADISON AND THE REPUBLICAN LEGACY, The
-- by Drew McCoy
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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LAUREL AND THE IVY: THE STORY OF CHARLES STEWART PARNELL AND IRISH NATIONALISM, The
-- by Robert Kee
Kee's essentially chonological approach very properly puts us in touch first with the Parnell who really matters - the difficult man and master politician who in a brief period, from 1874 to 1889, gave demoralized Ireland a powerful political party, a solid hope for Home Rule and an expanding sense of national destiny.
Washington Post Book World, 1994. |
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LAVAL
-- by Hubert Cole
Now, nearly 20 years after Laval's execution, a British editor turned historian has made a levelheaded but phlegmatic try at the first full-length biography of Laval written in English.
Time, July 5, 1963. |
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LETTER TO THE SOVIET LEADERS
-- by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by Thomas P. Whitney
Even if little comes of his advice, history may yet judge Solzhenitsyn a success - and not merely in the realm of art. For he is surely one of those towering witnesses thrown up by history (or God) in moments of crisis to remind the world that the pursuit of material progress is no way to the peace that passes understanding.
Time, July 15, 1974. |
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LIFE AND TIMES OF HORATIO HORNBLOWER, The
-- by C. Northcote Parkinson
C. Northcote Parkinson, though known for his prankish wit, was a naval historian before he began his researches into the modern disease that may properly be called "administrationitis." His fully fabricated account of Hornblower's career, from an impecunious "boyhood in Kent to a peaceful death at 80 in 1857 - which came, appropriately, while the by then viscount was reading Gibbon - is circumstantial to a fault.
Time, June 14, 1971. |
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LIFE BEFORE MAN
-- by Margaret Atwood
Atwood on the extinction of Man. She writes with savage humor, admits emotion only under extreme pressure, sheathes her sadness in polished irony.
Esquire, February 1980. |
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LIFE OF JOHN PAUL JONES, The
-- by Samuel Eliot Morison
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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LIFE Photographers: What They saw, The
-- editor John Loengard; review by Timothy Foote
October 6, 2010 |
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LIVING PRESIDENCY, The
-- by Emmet John Hughes
Briefly, gracefully, shrewdly, with anecdote and flashes of insight, Hughes invites humane and practical reflection upon the most mysterious and important public office in the world.
Time, September 3, 1973. |
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LONG GRAY LINE, The
-- by Rick Atkinson
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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LOVERS AND TYRANTS
-- by Francine Du Plessix Gray
"I knew I would rather die brutally, prematurely, than lead the life my husband would have preferred for me."
Time, November 1, 1967. |
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LUCE AND HIS EMPIRE
-- by W.A.Swanberg
Swanberg's book is less a biography than an ideological assessment, and it soon becomes an all-out political assault on Luce—for his muscular Christianity, his anti-Communist internationalism, and his notion that divine providence helped in the origin of the American experiment and gave America a special mission to help make the world safe for democracy.
Time, October 9, 1972. |
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MALCOLM X, THE MAN AND HIS TIMES
-- edited by John Henrik Clarke
A gathering of recollections by people who knew Malcolm X, in some ways, the most measured speaker and thinker that the black militant movement has yet produced.
Time, February 23, 1970. |
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MARGARET BOURKE-WHITE
-- by Vicki Goldberg
First and foremost what emerges from this thoroughgoing but ambivalent biography are Bourke-White's extraordinary courage and concern for image - her own as well as those she trapped with her lens - not to mention her extreme manipulativeness.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, July 20, 1986. |
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MARRY ME
-- by John Updike
Love and life gain savor from a sense of sin and self-denial. The stricture against eating the apple and the sword in Tristram and Iseult's bed are both powerful sharpeners of appetite. This is not artistic news, though the observation is now unfashionable. That being so, whether Marry Me is part apologia or all fictional sermonette, one of its points could well be dismissed as the higher hedonism in a nutshell (forbidden fizz is always the sweetest).
Time, November 15, 1976. |
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MATTHEW ARNOLD - LECTURES & ESSAYS IN CRITICISM: Vol. III
-- in a ten-volume series edited by R. H. Super
Arnold was the most trenchant critic of his century—a fact which has inspired Professor Super's mammoth scholarly edition of all his scattered works.
Time, May 19, 1963. |
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MCKAY'S BEES
-- by Thomas McMahon
Mathematically, McKay's reckonings are right. But his plans to establish a thriving humstead naturally go wrong, and this is the matter of Thomas McMahon's fine, small, funny second novel. |
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MEN AND ANGELS
-- by Theodora Ward
The author's literary pilgrimage takes her through diverting patches of angelic lore. Biblically speaking, most angels are confined to the hierarchical ranks in heaven—seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominions, powers, etc. Only the lowest ranks, archangels and angels, have ever had contact with man, appearing as messengers and ministers of God, especially at crucial moments when things had to be done that defied human logic.
Time, December 26, 1961. |
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MILTON'S PARADISE LOST: A Screen Play for the Cinema of the Mind
-- by John Collier
Collier has spent his 40-year literary career variously in England, the French Riviera and Hollywood. He has long believed that the cinema has not taken full advantage of its potential for fantasy, and he has thought about Paradise Lost as a film for years. "Milton was one of the greatest science-fiction and space-travel writers," he explains. "Satan flies through the whole universe, after all."
Time, June 25, 1973. |
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MUNDOME
-- by A.G. Mojtabai
Mundome gives a new license for chatter about the fluidity of personality. But what the book mostly leaves behind is a rare and pleasant sense, in this beautifully controlled first novel, of having been taken down the garden path by a master. |
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NEOCONSERVATIVES, The
-- by Peter Steinfels
Connected with big-moneyed foundations, great universities i.e. Government, these neoconservatives exert disproportionate influence by preaching a doctrine that, the author argues, "threatens to attenuate and diminish the promise of American democracy."
Time, August 6, 1979. |
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NICKEL MOUNTAIN
-- by John Gardner
In which illusion is accepted as a means of protecting love.
Time, December 31, 1973. |
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NOTES FROM A BOTTLE FOUND ON THE BEACH AT CARMEL
-- by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
A hard-to-follow but strangely effective message from Connell to what he clearly believes is a doomed world.
Time, June 14, 1963. |
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NUREMBERG AND VIETNAM: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
-- by Telford Taylor
Beyond its direct application to Viet Nam, Taylor's book is a remarkable historic study of a line of social thought that many readers will begin by regarding as hopeless and legalistic, and end by admiring profoundly.
Time, November 23, 1970. |
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ODYSSEY OF A FRIEND: WHITTAKER CHAMBERS' LETTERS TO WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY, JR. 1954-1961.
In the Letters, Chambers sees the materialistic West on the point of grave decline, and includes the U.S.S.R. in the West. He scorns liberals who "would like to suppose that the world can be made reasonable."
Time, March 9, 1970. |
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OLD MAN AND ME, The
-- by Elaine Dundy
The wistful cause of New World vulnerability, Author Dundy suggests, is not so much the thickness of the British hide as the thinness of the American skin.
Time, March 20, 1964. |
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ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE
-- by Ian Fleming
Author Fleming has never been without resources and on page 299 he appears deus ex machina (the machine, reassuringly, is a lethal red Maserati) and saves James Bond from his better self.
Time, August 30, 1963. |
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ONE HUNDRED DOLLAR MISUNDERSTANDING
-- by Robert Gover
A first novel by a young U.S. writer, was turned down by every U.S. publisher to whom it was submitted three years ago. Later brought out in broader-minded England and France, it has finally found its way to U.S. audiences through one of the publishers that first rejected it. Misunderstanding is as funny a book as the season is likely to see.
Time, November 9, 1962. |
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OUR LADY OF THE FLOWERS
-- by Jean Genet
In an age increasingly forced to distinguish between scatology, pornography and the legitimate study of evil, the story of Genet's progress to literary prominence exerts a monstrous fascination. For Genet is a matchless, unholy trinity of all three.
Time, October 11, 1963. |
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PACIFIC WAR REMEMBERED: An Oral History Collection, The
-- edited by John T. Mason
Mason clearly prepares his questions with care and guile, skillfully condensing the answers into brief, seamless webs of recollection. At least to this reviewer, who took part in the tail end of the naval war in question, these 31 memoir-interviews proved mightily absorbing.
Washington Post Book World, May 18, 1986. |
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PARIS BABYLON: The Story of the Paris Commune
-- by Rupert Christiansen
The events in Paris Babylon, including the rising and crushing of the Paris Commune, fit a pattern that prevailed for more than a hundred years after Frenchmen first killed their king in 1793 and, in the name of the people, visited the Terror upon one another. Through all that time France was -- and would remain well into this century -- her own worst enemy.
Washington Post Book World, July 9, 1995. |
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PEOPLE OF THE BOOK
-- by David Stacton
Stacton takes on the Thirty Years War and produces a troubling and fantastic book. What he achieves is less an historic tapestry than some brilliant notes toward a new-wave war film as it might have been photographed by a 16th century painter.
LIFE Magazine, 1965. |
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PETTY DEMON, The
-- by Fyodor Sologub
Fyodor Sologub's classic, The Petty Demon, is a glittering fantasy that had enormous success in Russia when it came out in 1907 but has not been widely read elsewhere. This deft translation is the first time it has been reissued in the U.S. since 1916.
Time, September 7, 1962. |
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PICTURE BOOK OF THE REVOLUTION'S PRIVATEERS, The
-- by C. Keith Wilbur
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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POMPADOUR
-- by Jacques Levron
A revised portrait of Mme. de Pompadour, probably the richest and most celebrated courtesan of all time, as a woman harassed almost beyond human endurance by illness and intrigue.
Time, December 13, 1963. |
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PORTRAIT OF A GENERAL
-- by William Willcox
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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PRIME OF LIFE, The
-- by Simone de Beauvoir
But so great was de Beauvoir's isolation that the book is neither a portrait of the times nor a study of an intellectual coterie. To the question "What is exciting and important?", every autobiographer must reply, "Anything that I do or say." In this case the reader may not necessarily agree.
Time, June 1, 1962. |
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PROGRESSIVE HISTORIANS, The
-- by Richard Hofstadter
Part biography, part intellectual history, part scholarly polemic, the volume is a sharp but generous inquiry into the underlying conceptions of American history and the reasons for writing it.
Time, October 25, 1968. |
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RABBLE IN ARMS
-- by Kenneth Roberts
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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RADICAL CHIC AND MAU-MAUING THE FLAK CATCHERS
-- by Tom Wolfe
For Wolfe, as for any satirist, manner is matter. To reduce his scenes to message is to miss both his point and his quality. Still, given the high-voltage polarity of the age, Wolfe is already being unfairly abstracted for message and misread something like this: the black movement is a put-on; the poverty program is a feckless giveaway; white liberals are pure patsies. As a result, he will endure not merely the embarrassing approval of the Neanderthals ("You see! you see!") but the threat of stoning at the hands of enraged reformers and black extremists alike.
Time, December 21, 1970. |
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REBELS AND REDCOATS
-- by Hugh Rankin and George Scheer
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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REIVERS, The
-- by William Faulkner
Like an old man gossiping on the back stoop, he delights in sentimental recollection, revels in his role as a teller of tall tales, at which only Mark Twain is his equal.
Time, June 8, 1962. |
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RETURN OF THE WOLF TO YELLOWSTONE, The
-- by Thomas McNamee
'Could it be that our newfound love of the wolf is as irrational as our forebears' hatred? Could it be that the wolf wolf lovers love and the wolf wolf haters hate are both falsehoods?'
New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 1, 1997. |
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RIDING HIGH
-- by Carl Solberg
The first concise history of the U.S. roughly from 1947 to 1967. Solberg deals to some extent with the textures of everyday living—the rush to the suburbs and the rise of the barbecue pit, James Dean fan clubs and bomb shelters. But his main aim is to describe the enormous effect of the cold war on American life.
Time, September 9, 1974. |
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RIGHT STUFF, The
-- by Tom Wolfe
In The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe describes "pushing the outside of the envelope," Right Stuffese for forcing an aircraft to the extreme limits of its design. In a mouthy age, the Brothers cling to a military officer's "uncritical willingness to face danger" at very low pay.
Quest, 1979. |
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ROADS Driving America's Great Highways
-- by Larry McMurtry
Despite the inclusion of chapter headings listing the highway networks over which McMurtry chose to drive before writing ''Roads,'' the book is not an aid to travel but an occasion for fleeting, from-the-hip commentary on anything along the way that comes to his eye or mind.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, July 16, 2000. |
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SADDEST STORY, The
-- by Arthur Mizener
Ford was clearly due for an exhaustive scholarly biography. His life, however, is notably unhelpful to his public reputation.
Time, May 10, 1971. |
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SAINT GENET
-- by Jean-Paul Sartre
"By infecting us with his evil," Sartre concludes complacently, "Genet delivers himself from it."
Time, October 11, 1963. |
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SAKI: A LIFE OF HECTOR HUGH MUNRO
-- by A.J. Langguth
Saki could demonstrate that he could write a novel and at the same time pour ashes upon the society he had long been part of. Says Langguth: "It could be the cry of an outsider whose thin lips ache from 40 years of smiling."
Time, September 7, 1981. |
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SCHOOLS WE DESERVE: Reflections on the Educational Crises of Our Time, The
-- by Diane Ravitch
The Schools We Deserve, rather than pedagogical in style, is a probing field guide to highly charged school issues, something that should be read by any parent or layman who wants to make sense of the current educational scene.
Washington Post Book World, May 5, 1985. |
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SECOND WORLD WAR, The
-- by John Keegan
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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SECOND WORLD WAR: A COMPLETE HISTORY, The
-- by Martin Gilbert
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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Seldom Disappointed
-- by Tony Hillerman
Some readers will mistakenly assume that this brief memoir, written at 75, will be mainly of interest to addicts of the Chee and Leaphorn mysteries. Far from it. Hillerman does get around to discussing his books, of course. But first, he tells of his own world, beginning with his hardscrabble, cotton-chopping Catholic boyhood in Sacred Heart, Oklahoma.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, October 28, 2001. |
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SELECTED POEMS
-- by John Crowe Ransom
As the author of a few slender books of poetry, he has drawn the highest praise from the knottiest intellectuals of his time.
Time, April 3, 1964. |
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SILMARILLION, The
-- by J.R.R. Tolkien
At its best Tolkien's posthumous revelation of his private mythology is majestic, a work held so long and so powerfully in the writer's imagination that it overwhelms the reader.
Time, October 24, 1977. |
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SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, The
-- by Gore Vidal
There are books it may be better to talk about than to read, and one of them, alas, is The Smithsonian Institution.
Washington Post Book World, April 1998. |
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SOUL OF THE WOLF, The
-- by Michael Fox
What comes through is Fox's overwhelming love of wolves, a sense of communion with them that goes beyond words — something that anyone who has loved a large dog will understand.
Time, October 6, 1980. |
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SPECULATIONS ABOUT JAKOB and THE THIRD BOOK ABOUT ACHIM
by Uwe Johnson
In the past two years, the growing success of three writers—Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll and Uwe Johnson—has signaled a change. Linked with a maverick literary movement known as Group 47, they know that the dramatic story of Nazi Germany must lie not with the wolves but in the everyday lives of the lambs—those many individuals whose accumulation of fear, self-protective indifference or private greed let it all happen.
Time, January 4, 1963. |
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SPEECHES OF MALCOLM X AT HARVARD, The
-- edited by Archie Epps
A gathering of recollections by people who knew Malcolm X, in some ways, the most measured speaker and thinker that the black militant movement has yet produced.
Time, February 23, 1970. |
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SPIRE, The
-- by William Golding
By all the standards of current fiction, Golding, with all his faults admitted, is a provocative and imposing figure. But whatever greatness is, he plainly has not yet demonstrated that he possesses it.
Time, April 24, 1964. |
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SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD, The
-- by John Le Carré
One of the best spy stories ever written. Even if John le Carre's book isn't authentic, nobody except another certified spy can be sure; and it has the merit of sounding chillingly true.
Time, January 17, 1964. |
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STRONG DRINK, STRONG LANGUAGE
-- by John Espey
The father hoped the son would have a "calling" too. Knowing Presbyterianism inside and out, the son wanted out. For years, however, driven by a mix of love and cowardice, supported by his own ironic humor and his mother's aamazing grace at maintaining domestic harmony, Espey conspired to protect his father from the true depths of his skepticism.
Washington Post Book World, November 25, 1990. |
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SUMMER BEFORE THE DARK, The
-- by Doris Lessing
This is also a book about beginning to grow old. As death approaches, so does the need to satisfy a feeling, "perhaps the deepest one we have," Kate reflects, "that what matters most is that we learn through living."
Time, May 21, 1973. |
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SUNLIGHT DIALOGUES, The
-- by John Gardner
An enormous trick circus trunk out of which the author keeps taking new literary treasures as if they were so many fake bananas.
Time, January 1, 1973. |
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SUNSET OF THE SPLENDID CENTURY, The
-- by W. H. Lewis
This splendid sequel to The Splendid Century, British Historian W. H. Lewis's remarkable study of the Sun King at the high noon of his power, has just been brought out in paperback.
Time, October 30, 1964. |
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TALKING GOD
-- by Tony Hillerman
As regular players in Mr. Hillerman's long running show-and-tell course in Navajo language and culture, Chee and Leaphorn help illuminate the range of small truces a college-trained Navajo must make between tradition and the modern world.
New York Times Sunday Book Review, June 18, 1989. |
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THANK YOU, FOG
-- by W.H. Auden
If there are no secrets in this volume, there are no surprises either. How could there be? These are the handful of poems that Auden wrote between the time he went back to England after 31 years in the New World and the time of his death in 1973.
Time, February 3, 1975. |
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THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN the author, far from merely unfolding an account of an isolated act of violence, has woven out of many voices and many contiguous lives a chronicle of the long, sometimes hopeful, often hateful relationship between Englishmen and Indians in what was British India. |
THEOPHILUS NORTH
-- by Thornton Wilder
An escapee from a boyhood variously spent in China, California and Wisconsin, a classics scholar, a master of many languages, an ex-prep schoolteacher and Yaleman, Theophilus is also an infernal meddler in other people's business.
Time, November 12, 1973. |
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TIME ON THE CROSS
-- by Robert William Fogel and Stanley L. Engerman
Together Fogel and Engerman are the leading edge of a new wing of historians known as cliometricians because their methods marry Clio, the muse of history, to the practice of quantifying the past with the help of computers.
Time, June 17, 1974. |
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TIN DRUM, The
-- by Günter Grass
In the past two years, the growing success of three writers—Günter Grass, Heinrich Böll and Uwe Johnson—has signaled a change. Linked with a maverick literary movement known as Group 47, they know that the dramatic story of Nazi Germany must lie not with the wolves but in the everyday lives of the lambs—those many individuals whose accumulation of fear, self-protective indifference or private greed let it all happen.
Time, January 4, 1963. |
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TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
-- by John Le Carré
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is one of the best tales of the year so far. But by le Carré's highest standards it is, as Evelyn Waugh remarked in another connection, simply "creamy English charm playing tigers."
Time, June 24, 1974. |
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TO THE FINLAND STATION
-- by Edmund Wilson
To the Finland Station is illuminated by a contagious awe at mankind's need to believe that the course of history and steady human progress are inevitably linked. History has not yet made clear whether such a belief is a narcotic, a noble inspiration, a necessary myth or a tragic delusion. But the author shows where any reader's sympathies must lie.
Time, August 21, 1972. |
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TO THE HARBOR LIGHT
-- by Henry Beetle Hough
In this account of his own autumnal days on Martha's Vineyard, Hough, with great skill and charm, approaches the pangs and pleasures of aging in ways that very much recall Walden's formula: keep track of housekeeping details and the transcendental homilies will take care of themselves. |
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TOTAL WOMAN (1973). TOTAL JOY (1977)
-- by Marabel Morgan
Her name is Marabel Morgan, and her sole transgression is that she is the author of two treacly and wildly popular books, Total Woman and its newly released sequel Total Joy, which argue that every housewife can find happiness by pampering and submitting to her husband.
Time, March 14, 1977. |
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TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON, The
-- by Eric F. Goldman
Ultimately, Goldman sees Lyndon Johnson as a restless and brilliant leader crippled by a weak regional education (marginal high school, less than marginal college) that rendered him incapable of coping with the international complexities that any President of the U.S. today must confront.
Time, March 14, 1969. |
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TROPIC OF CAPRICORN
-- by Henry Miller
If Cancer was an old world debauch, Capricorn is a kind of New World Sinphony, an account of Author Miller's coming of age in New York City (1900-23).
Time, June 29, 1962. |
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UNINVITED ENVOY, The
-- by James Leaser
Drawing for the first time on all the old and new information about Rudolf Hess's strange, ill-fated mission, Journalist-Historian James Leaser (The Red Fort, The Plague and the Fire) has produced an absorbing footnote to history.
Time, November 16, 1962. |
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WAR FOR AMERICA, The
-- by Piers Mackesy
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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WE FOLLOWED ODYSSEUS
-- by Hal Roth
Hal and Margaret Roth made the same trip in two, with time out to winter in Malta. They roamed the eastern Mediterranean in the 35-foot sloop Whisper, hungry for real and mythical history.
Smithsonian, September 2001. |
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WIND FROM AMERICA, The
-- by Claude Manceron
One reason The Wind from America is interesting is that it raises the question of how far a historian should go in catering to a popular audience and what risks he takes in an age when readers seem much given over to concern about Suzanne Somers's cooking skills and Cher's love life.
Harpers, March 1979. |
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WINDS OF WAR, The
-- by Herman Wouk
Wouk has just poured some seven years of his life into The Winds of War and its yet to be completed sequel. His aim: nothing less than to do for the middle-class American vision of World War II pretty much what Tolstoy did for the Battle of Borodino.
Time, November 22, 1971. |
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WINSTON S. CHURCHILL. Vol. VI: FINEST HOUR 1939-1941
-- by Martin Gilbert
Finest Hour itself leans heavily on Churchill's book, and on the voluminous, unpublished daily notes of Churchill's secretary, John Colville, whose slender published memoir Footprints in Time is crammed with wise, brief and sharp comments about Churchill and predecessor Neville Chamberlain. Gilbert is an expert and unobstusive stitcher-together of facts and dates, of voices and tactics, of statistics and world strategies, and he ends by creating a narrative that other historians will no doubt have to borrow from for decades to come.
Washington Post Book World, November 27, 1983. |
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WITNESS TO THE YOUNG REPUBLIC: A YANKEE'S JOURNAL
-- by Benjamin Brown French
Washington Post Book World, December 3, 1989. |
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WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE, The
-- Joan Aiken
This year can boast one genuine small masterpiece.
Time, December 13, 1963. |
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WORLD OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, The
-- by Richard M. Ketchum
These are indeed the literary times that try men's souls. And the end is not yet in sight. For the summer reader and sunshine patriot unwilling to drown in the steady flood of Bicentennial books but still eager to come to grips with his country's past, TIME offers these suggestions, some old, some new.
Time, July 5, 1976. |
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