The Books That Take Revenge, Centuries Later
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Who Came Up With That?
Contrary to what we think of as intellectual property, most ideas are difficult to trace back to one human mind.
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Stewart Brand’s Whole Earth Catalog was seen as a countercultural milestone, but his new book reveals his alliances with the powerful.
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Eight of the Most Fascinating Biographies to Read
Each is animated by the author’s love—for their subject, for language, and for pushing the boundaries of what the genre can do.
Six Books That Simply Must Be Talked About
These six books demand discussion—with a pal, a date, or a book club.
Nine Books to Reset Your View of the World
Each of these titles will widen your perspective, offering you original insight and vision.
Seven Books to Read When You Have No Time to Read
These titles are worth picking up, even if you have only a moment to spare.
Through Time and Distance
A native Johannesburger, NADINE GORDIMER is one of the most gifted novelists writing about the divided world of the Union of South Africa. Last spring, Miss Gordimer spent two months in the United States on a visiting professor fellowship given by the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Washington. During that, time she gave a reading of her short stones at the Poetry Center in New York and delivered the Ann Radcliffe lecture at Radcliffe College.
A Trip to the Country
A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Chicago Divinity School, PIERRE HENRI DELATTREhas lived in the Bay Area for the last six years, working at a number of jobs — switching on the railroad, student Y work at the University of California, and as minister of the Bread and Wine Mission, a coffeehouse in San Francisco’s North Beach. Now working part-time as a cabinetmaker, Mr. Delattre is involved in starting a repertory theater in San Francisco, has finished a short play, and is writing a novel.
The Prince's Children
MAURO SENESI is a young Florentine journalist who was horn in Vollerra, Tuscany, thirty years ago. His first novel, I PIENI PETERI (”Emergency Powers”), was recently published in his native country. Here for the first time he turns to the short story form in English.
Moving Day
Southern-born and a graduate of Radcliffe, class of 1958, SALLIE BINGHAMstarted the writing of fiction while she was in college. One of her short stories won the Dana Reed Prize for 1957 and was reprinted in THE BEST AMERICAN SHORT STORIES 1959. Her first novel, AFTER SUCH KNOWLEDGE, was published by Houghton Mifflin in the spring of 1960.
A Warm Hike
Born in 1915, S. YIZHAR has concentrated in his stories on life in Israel, in the kibbutz, and during the war of 1948-1949. He has published several volumes of short stories, including CHIRBET CHIZEH,a collection of powerful tales of the War of Independence, and SHISHAH SIPUREI KAYITZ (“Six Summer Stories”).
The Sabbath
Author, dramatist, and editor of the literary supplement of a leading Israeli newspaper, AHARON MEGGEDwas born in Poland, came to Palestine when he was very young, and was for many years a member of a kibbutz.
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A New Yorker who studied at Trinity College. Dublin, J. P. DONLEAVY is the author of THE GINGER MAN. a first novel which attracted considerable attention here and in England. The play, which was dramatized by the author from his book, was produced in London and Dublin, and in both places drew endorsements and equally strong condemnations. Mr. Donleavy is now at work on a new novel.
There Was a Young Lady of Perth
Author of MY NAME IS ARAM, MY HEART’S IN THE HIGHLANDS, THE HUMAN COMEDY, and THE BICYCLE RIDER IN BEVERLY HILLS, WILLIAMS SAROYAN has been writing since he was thirteen years old and has published almost forty books and plays. He refused the Pulitzer Prize for THE TIME OF YOUR LIFE but accepted the Drama Critics Circle Award for the same play, “because there was no money involved.”He is now living in Paris.
The Lost Country
The author of three novels , JOHN HEARNE grew up and was educated in Jamaica, and in his writings he describes with dramatic force the people and customs of the Caribbean countries. He is now living in London and working on a new novel. His last book , THE EYE OF THE STORM, was published by Atlantic-Little, Brown.