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1. The wizard of Lake Cayuga.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
VLADIMIR Nabokov (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the biography `Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years,' by Brian Boyd. Emphasizes the critical without occluding the historical circumstances, of which Nabokov himself was sometimes disdainful.

Published
1992

2. A good minestrone.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
RUNAWAY Soul, The (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the novel `The Runaway Soul,' by Harold Brodkey. It is another example of the novel of development, for which German criticism has provided the name of `Bildungsroman.'

Published
1991

3. Tripping over the future.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
FARTHER Shore: A Natural History of Perception, The (Book), DISAPPEARING Through the Skylight (Book)
Abstract

Reviews two books dealing with the future of culture. `The Farther Shore: A Natural History of Perception, 1798-1984,' by Don Gifford. `Disappearing Through the Skylight: Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century,' by O.B. Hardison Jr.

Published
1990

4. Lucy and Lucifer.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
APPETITE for Poetry, An (Book)
Abstract

Reviews several books that address the current debate over what texts should be read in universities, and how to read them. `An Appetite for Poetry,' by Frank Kermode; `Protocols of Reading,' by Robert Scholes; and `Framing the Sign: Criticism and Its Institutions,' by Jonathan Culler.

Published
1990

5. From Abailard to Les Zutistes.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
NEW History of French Literature, A (Book)
Abstract

Reviews two books, `A New History of French Literature,' edited by Denis Hollier and `The Oxford Companion to French Literature,' by Sir Paul Harvey and J.E. Heseltine.

Published
1990

6. Fall of valor.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
OUTERBRIDGE Reach (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Outerbridge Reach,' by Robert Stone.

Published
1992

7. The floating operetta.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
LILA: An Inquiry Into Morals (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `Lila: An Inquiry into Morals,' by Robert M. Pirsig.

Published
1991

8. The reality game.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
*BOOKS
Abstract

Presents a review of the book `Patrimony: A True Story,' by Philip Roth.

Published
1991

9. Metropolitan opera.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
CONSCIENCE of the Eye: The Design & Social Life of Cities, The (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `The Conscience of the Eye: The Design and Social Life of Cities,` which is the third volume of a trilogy of urban culture, by Richard Sennett.

Published
1991

10. Was Cratylus kidding?

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
NAMES of Comedy, The (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book `The Names of Comedy,' by Anne Barton.

Published
1990

11. Liberators.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
*BOOKS, REVIEWS
Abstract

Reviews the book `The General in His Labyrinth,' a biographical account of Simon Bolivar by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Also the novels `In Praise of the Stepmother' and `The War of the End of the World' by Mario Vargas Llosa; More.

Published
1990

12. Juggler.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
FOUCAULT'S Pendulum (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book, `Foucault's Pendulum,' by Umberto Eco. Fiction.

Published
1989

13. Software wars.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
HENCE (Book)
Abstract

Book review. `Hence' by Brad Leithauser.

Published
1989

14. Tolstoy in embryo.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
TINKER & a Poor Man: John Bunyan & His Church 1628-1688, A (Book)
Abstract

Book review of `A Tinker and a Poor Man: John Bunyan and his Church, 1628-1688,' by Christopher Hill.

Published
1989

15. Tin cans in the Rockies.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
*BOOKS, REVIEWS
Abstract

Book reviews of `The Pilot and the Passenger: Essays on Literature, Technology, and Culture in the United States,' by Leo Marx and `Ansel Adams: Letters and Images 1916-1984,' by Mary Street Alinder and Andrea Gray Stillman.

Published
1989

16. Balancing act.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
HISTORY of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters, A (Book)
Abstract

Reviews the book, `A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters,' by Julian Barnes. Fiction.

Published
1989

17. I porni.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
I Modi (Book)
Abstract

Book review of `I modi: The Sixteen Pleasures: An Erotic Album of the Italian Renaissance' by Giulio Romano, Marcantonio Raimondi, Pietro Aretino, and Count Jean-Frederic-Maximilien de Waldeck.

Published
1989

18. Alibi Alley.

Author

Adams, R.

Subjects
*BOOKS
Abstract

Reviews `Fiction in the Archives: Pardon Tales and Their Tellers in Sixteenth-Century France' by Natalie Zemon Davis. Collection of letters written by 16th century Frenchmen seeking governmental pardons for crimes they committed.

Published
1989

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