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...most affecting in suggesting the child's agony. In a totally different vein, suicide, adultery and attempted murder become almost folksy episodes in Crimes of the Heart. Playwright Beth Henley spins out a web of relationships among three Mississippi sisters, and, though the actresses (Kathy Bates, Susan Kingsley and Lee Anne Fahey) are uniformly fine and the play a potential crowd pleaser, the tenor of the evening is mostly that of an afternoon TV soap...
Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis ∙The World According to Garp, John Irving...
FICTION: Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙ Picture Palace, Paul Theroux ∙ Stories, Doris Lessing The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙ The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis ∙ The World According to Garp, John Irving
FICTION: Airships, Barry Hannah Final Payments, Mary Gordon Mortal Friends, James Carroll Picture Palace, Paul Theroux The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis The World According to Garp, John Irving
...Never apologize/ For what you anthologize." So, if anyone had thought of it, might run the motto for this entertaining and occasionally exasperating selection of poetic japes and fripperies. Novelist Kingsley Amis is not just a wickedly funny writer (read Lucky Jim several times); he is also a critic known for his strong and aggressively idiosyncratic opinions. With the venerable Oxford imprimatur on his side, Amis' poetastering now becomes what the next several generations of readers will have to swallow...