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Jamaica Kincaid is a writer of stinging force, rare intelligence and, alas, a single, anguished theme: her bitter resentment of her mother--who, as the author herself seems to realize, was merely a limited, self-absorbed woman. But in book after book (notably a brilliant, tormented novel, The Autobiography of...
As one of those quaintly Jurassic old fogies who still keep an address book--more portable than a palmtop, after all--I recently came across a problem: my little book was filling up even though my Christmas-card list was not. In short, the number of my friends was not...
The first of the Avon Publishing pair, Macho Meditations, was created by the late-night barstool contemplation of two south Boston residents dubbed "Ralph" and "Reggie." The book itself contains a full year's worth of quotes-a-day and meditations to go with them, ranging from blatantly chauvinistic to...
For example, the reader is advised on January 2 to come on to a feminist, but if "she smacks you, tell her you were just kidding, you don't really like the way she fills out her sweater," yet the contemplation for September 29, regarding competitiveness in fatherhood, is "guys...
With the fall season behind them and a long winter of contemplation in the foreground, Harvard enters its break like never before.