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Jerome Charyn's Savage Shorthand: The Life and Death of Isaac
examines the life the revolutionary idealist murdered by
Stalin in 1940 and explodes the literary myths that have thus far
defined his works.


Camarillo, Calif.

Bush. Now cut that out!

It has almost become a sadness to review a novel by Salman Rushdie. Shalimar the Clown is no exception.

Sean Wilsey's new memoir is a vulnerable, aching, unresolved account of growing up rich amid San Francisco's high society.

Camile Paglia, pundit of poetry.

The world Saul Bellow made.


If Herbert Marcuse and Senator Joseph McCarthy had gone to a movie together in the late 1950s--and that could only happen in a movie--they would have walked out, probably not together, and demand