The New York Times Book Review 1995 - Abstracts

The New York Times Book Review 1995
TitleSubjectAuthors
A dangerous literacy: the legacy of Frederick Douglas.Business, generalGates, Henry Louis, Jr.
A good man is hard to keep: the correspondence of Flannery O'Connor and S.J. Perelman. (imaginary letters between the two authors)Business, generalKeillor, Garrison, Geng, Veronica
A man without luck. (French writer Pierre Jean Jouve)Business, generalBegley, Louis
A modest, scrupulous, happy man. (author William Maxwell) (Interview)Business, generalGinsberg, Harvey
'A moralist possessed by humor': a conversation with Robertson Davies. (author) (Interview)Business, generalGussow, Mel
Angus Wilson: cruel-kind enemy of false sentiment and self-delusion. (British author) (Rediscoveries)Business, generalDrabble, Margaret
A noteworthy collection.(new paperback books of July-December 1995)Business, generalGraeber, Laurel
Arendt and Heidegger: an affair to forget? (Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger)(Column)Business, generalShulevitz, Judith
'Are those real poems, or did you write them yourself?' Adventures on the reading circuit. (poetry readings)Business, generalPhillips, Robert
At the Russian newsstand: suits, sunglasses and sex.(Column)Business, generalBrumberg, Abraham
Back to whose basics? (defining the basis for a liberal arts education)(Column)Business, generalGarber, Marjorie
Better than the Nobel Prize: the Newbery sells books.(award for children's literature has lasting effect on book sales)Business, generalKonigsburg, E.L.
Blood in the board room: thrillers of the capitalist persuasion.Business, generalHarrison, Colin
Books for vacation reading.Business, general 
Crimes against children: the trend in mysteries.(Column)Business, generalStasio, Marilyn
Critics and their discontents. (academic critics)(Column)Business, generalKendrick, Walter
Editor's choice.(eleven best books of 1995)(Cover Story)Business, general 
Erewhon and the Contract With America: wealth, Butler knew, was virtue, bad luck a crime. (author Samuel Butler)(Rediscoveries)Business, generalGaddis, William
Fall from grace.(Harold Frederic's classic 1896 novel, 'The Damnation of Theron Ware')(Essay)Business, generalOates, Joyce Carol
Feminism's third wave: what do young women want?Business, generalKaminer, Wendy
From 1789 to Newt Gingrich: a readers' guide to Congress. (includes bibliography)Business, generalOrnstein, Norman J.
Gunter Grass: Germany's last heretic.(negative reactions to his new novel, 'Ein Weites Feld' - 'A Broad Field')(Bookend)(Column)Business, generalKinzer, Stephen
How a clergyman from Hartford freed Huckleberry Finn.(Mark Twain's friendship with Joseph Twichell)Business, generalBanks, Russell
Hype and hoopla in Chicago: a postcard from the Booksellers' convention. (American Booksellers Association)Business, generalAnania, Michael
Ill paid, ill defined and nearly irresistible.(history of U.S. Poet Laureate post)(Bookend)(Column)Business, generalSchmidt, Elizabeth
In other words: a translator's journal.Business, generalWeaver, William
Keepers of the tenure track. (management of university presses)(Column)Business, generalShulevitz, Judith
Life on the loaf: two weeks at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.Business, generalDaum, Meghan
Lost and found: remembering Henry Roth. (author)(Column)Business, generalRosen, Jonathan
More than just a Victorian. (the works of Anthony Trollope)Business, generalOzick, Cynthia
My new friends in the new Russia: in search of a few good crooks, cops and former agents.Business, generalle Carre, John
'None ever wished it longer': how to stamp out book inflation.(long biographies)Business, generalTeachout, Terry
Notable books of the year 1995.Business, general 
Rabbit gets it together. (adapted from 'Rabbit Angstrom')Business, generalUpdike, John
Remembering Stanley Elkin, master of excess.(novelist)(Obituary)Business, generalWolff, Geoffrey
Revelations, secrets, gossip and lies: sifting warily through the Soviet archives.Business, generalMiner, Steven Merritt
Santa makes book.(satirical cartoon)(Bookend)(Illustration)Business, generalGrossman, Robert
Savage Puritans ripped her bodice. (how paperback publishers used provocative covers to attract readers)Business, generalLasky, Julie
Seeing the Unseen. (CD-ROM book) (Software Review)(Evaluation)Business, generalBenson, Richard
Shakespeare and Smokey Robinson. (appreciation of black culture, classic books and multicultural education)Business, generalDyson, Michael Eric
Six flags over middle earth. (places used as settings in books)Business, generalMcGrath, Charles
So many men, so many wars: 50 years of remembering World War II.Business, generalHynes, Samuel
The angel of malignity: the cold beauty of Katherine Anne Porter. (author)(Rediscoveries)Business, generalGordon, Mary
The decline of discourse? (dispute between Leon Wieseltier and Cornel West)Business, generalDelbanco, Andrew
'The last civilized man on Earth': the incomparable Max Beerbohm. (writer and artist)Business, generalCade, Jack
The 'legless angel' of 'David Copperfield': there's more to her than Victorian piety. (reevaluating the character Agnes Wickfield)Business, generalGay, Peter
The muse in the machine: or, the poetics of Zork. (software for writing prose and poetry)Business, generalPinsky, Robert
The other Nixon library: portraits of the ex-President as literary object.(books about Richard M. Nixon)Business, generalAaron, Daniel
The readable feast: a holiday quiz. (literary meals)Business, generalJohnson, Amy Edith
The smallest museum in Russia: Akhmatova lived here (and lives here still). (museum devoted to the late Russian poet Anna Akhmatova)Business, generalRussell, John
The super bowl of fiction. (Great Britain's Booker Prize)Business, generalHoffman, Eva
The war marches on: new selections for 1995. (World War II books)(Bibliography)Business, generalBruckner, D.J.R.J.R.
They won't grow up. (biographies of authors of children's books)(Column)Business, generalHulbert, Ann
Vidal and Buckley, Calley and My Lai.(refutations of statements in the article 'It Wasn't Pretty, Folks, but Didn't We Have Fun?' on Esquire in the 1960s)(Letter to the Editor)Business, generalVidal, Gore, Sack, John
Virtual authors: the web sites.(humor)Business, generalDouglas, Lawrence, George, Alexander
Virtual authors: the web sites.(humor)Business, generalDouglas, Lawrence, George, Alexander
Where have you gone, Orrin Knox? The decline of the Washington novel. (novels set in Washington D.C.)Business, generalTeachout, Terry
Why I choose to write in Irish, the corpse that sits up and talks back.Business, generalDhomhnaill, Nuala Ni
World War II: other accounts from all over.(Bibliography)Business, general 
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