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Frighten the Horses, a self-proclaimed "document of the sexual revolution," is celebrating this Valentine's Day with its first fullcolor glossy cover. Admitting that this step certainly "complicates things," copublishers Mark Pritchard and Cris Gutierrez nevertheless seek to scale up their high-spirited "zine" and its circulation of fiction "as dirty as we can find...
Today's liberals have naively bought into too many bad European ideas. Paglia and Mansfield point to two fundamental ideas in particular--both with bad consequences. The first is the presumption that "human nature" is a fiction and that man is a complete product of society. This idea, which came from Europe and was promulgated by Rousseau, has ultimately infiltrated the American university and is now taken for granted in many intellectual circles. On this view, bad things--like rape and homophobia--have been socialized into good people by a bad society. The solution? More socialization: With the right combination...
Many likened him to Ross Perot. Pop-fiction addicts recalled Captain Queeg of The Caine Mutiny. Others believed Admiral Bobby Ray Inman to be an intelligence expert who had lived so long in the hidden world of spies that he now saw plots everywhere. But these were mere nuances to the majority opinion: Inman, explaining why he was withdrawing as nominee to be Secretary of Defense, produced a bizarre TV classic -- an utterly convincing, because utterly unintentional, portrayal of himself as paranoid...
...probably never happened before: two novels by the same author, separated by 60 years and with no book of fiction in between. The appearance of Henry Roth's Mercy of a Rude Stream (St. Martin's; 290 pages; $23) not only breaks an epochal case of writer's block; it comes with a subtitle -- Volume I, A Star Shines over Mt. Morris Park -- and the astonishing dust-jacket information that this is only the first of six new novels that Roth, now 87, has completed. What he has apparently done, late in life, is tell the story...
That obsession is gene therapy, and W. French Anderson, 57, more than anyone else, has brought it from the realm of science fiction to reality. It was Anderson who campaigned single-mindedly for the first approved test of the technology in 1990, who organized and supervised the trial, and who last year was able to announce that the subjects of the experiment, two young girls with a debilitating disorder called ADA deficiency, had been relieved of virtually all symptoms of the disease...