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Provides accounts of writers; lives and words, summaries of critical response, and bibliographies.

"From the longest-running, most trusted book review in America comes a celebration of The New York Times Book Review, including reviews, essays, and interviews, showcasing the best, worst, funniest, strangest, and influential literary coverage since its beginnings in 1896"--

As editor of the quarterly Salmagundi for the past fifty years, Robert Boyers has been on the cutting edge of developments in politics, culture, and the arts. Reflecting on his collaborations and quarrels with some of the twentieth century's most transformative writers, artists, and thinkers, Boyers writes a wholly original intellectual memoir that rigorously confronts selected aspects of contemporary society. Organizing his chapters around specific...

This wartime drama is based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1945 novel. It stars Anthony Hopkins as Ravic, a German who helped Jews escape Nazis. He has left his country and now, in 1939, lives without documents in Paris, under a false name. There he starts a romance with the beautiful Joan Madou. Also starring Lesley-Anne Down and Donald Pleasence.

Examines the historical context of twentieth-century literature, describing the events, movements, and figures that influenced specific literary works, and includes a chronology of the historical events covered

While "the male condition" is increasingly the focus of critical inquiry, the first images to come to most minds are those associated, ironically enough, with the resoundingly heterosexual men's movement - sweat lodges, primal screams, etc. As these images quickly become cliched, a more progressive and less primitivist movement continues to gather strength, namely one that examines the experiences and writings of homosexual men. In this groundbreaking...

A collection of stories, plays and poetry by Native American writers from North and South America.

Calliope's friendship with a classmate and her sense of identity are compromised by the adolescent discovery that she is a hermaphrodite, a situation with roots in her grandparents' desperate struggle for survival in the 1920s.

An anthology of Vietnam War writing, mostly by well-known authors. The fiction includes excerpts from novels, poems and songs, plus summaries of films, while non-fiction is represented by excerpts from books such as Robert Mason's Chickenhawk, the experiences of a helicopter pilot.