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...York attained its now partly lost eminence is the grand theme of Terrible Honesty: Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920s (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25), a detail-crammed psychohistory by Ann Douglas, who teaches English and comparative literature at Columbia University. As she interprets this era, the modern artists who gathered in New York to create a new American culture relied upon "terrible honesty"--a term devised by the crime writer Raymond Chandler--to overthrow the romanticizing, domineering matriarchal ethos of the late Victorian...
...start of Cock-a-doodle-doo, Philip Weiss' smart first novel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 295 pages; $21), he--Jack Gold--has just finished working on an underdog's losing campaign for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New York. The winner is popular Early Quinlan, who had been Secretary of State in a Republican Administration but, when times changed, switched parties with speed and grace...
Between the end of World War I and the Crash of 1929, New York emerged as the world's most powerful city in finance, music making, theater, literature. How and why New York attained its now partly-lost eminence is the grand theme of this detail-crammed psychohistory (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 606 pages; $25) by Columbia University professor Ann Douglas. "Douglas' dense, rat-a-tat-tat narrative is full of surprises," says TIME critic John Elson, who notes that the author sometimes gets her details wrong. But Elson says those are minor flaws in an "erudite portrait of a dazzling...
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...bold symphony of Dante's volgare comes to life with renewed vitality in Boston University professor Robert Pinsky's new verse translation of Inferno, the first and mostfamous of the three cantiche of the Divine Comedy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux...