Word: fiction
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FICTION...
...bringing in anti-Soviet propaganda). Rar says that he prints "only a fraction" of what he gets. Usually, as in Cancer Ward, he publishes excerpts in Grani first and then a full text through Grani's parent publishing house, Possev, which prints a variety of Russian-language fiction and nonfiction titles; much of its output is smuggled back into Russia...
Donald Barthelme's game is best described as surrealist anthropology or perhaps social-science fiction. Literature today is overshadowed by audio-visual art forms that threaten to turn into total pinball-machine environments. But Barthelme, 37, continues to demonstrate that language can be a mixed-media production all by itself. He translates the chipped teacups, navel lint, prattle and random static of life into even rows of words that twitter, bong, flash and glow signals of exquisite distress...
...last week, Harvard lacked a local outlet for literary criticism--with the remotely possible exception of Advocate book reviews. A community where competent critical writing at least equals the amount and quality of fiction and poetry produced, requires some vehicle for publishing outstanding criticism--especially since it already prints a number of fiction and poetry magazines...
...work by Philip Roth commands attention. Lately, the author of Goodbye, Columbus, Letting Go and When She Was Good, one of the best of America's younger novelists, has chosen to exhibit his new fiction piecemeal in various magazines. His theme-the psychological problems of a modern Jewish-American-is not exactly new. But to judge from what has appeared so far, Roth's latest work looks like the most brilliant piece of radical humor in years...