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FICTION: The Anatomy Lesson, Philip Roth ∙Life and Times of Michael K, J.M. Coetzee ∙The Penitent, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙Pitch Dark, Renata Adler ∙Rates of Exchange, Malcolm Bradbury ∙5hame, Salman Rushdie NONFICTION: The Discoverers, Daniel J. Boorstin ∙The Oxford Book of Dreams, edited by Stephen Brook Parallel Lives: Five Victorian Marriages, Phyllis Rose ∙The Rosenberg File, Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton ∙Siegfried Sassoon's Long Journey, edited by Paul Fussell The Spiritualists, Ruth Brandon
...Malcolm McLaren: Duck Rock (Island). The year's funniest and most slaphappy dance record mixes Zulu chants, New York City jump-rope songs and hip-hop street culture into an anthropological jamboree...
...Malcolm McLaren: Duck Rock videos. Actually, four separate videos, all directed by McLaren, spun off from his irresistible Duck Rock album. Each is an exercise in back-beat anthropology: Double Dutch, for example, is a spectacularly simple film of some New York City schoolgirls jumping rope...
...point," says Author V.S. Pritchett. "It was hard to define him because just when you had fixed on a view, he would contradict it." Novelist Julian Symons remembers "a quality of perversity" in Orwell: "He had a characteristic directness which upset people and made him a lot of enemies." Malcolm Muggeridge recalls a man "who utterly despised intellectuals and people he used to refer to, scornfully, as wearing sandals. And yet he was an intellectual...
This, in various incarnations, is the prototypical figure who has shambled through all the cracklingly intelligent, funny novels of Britain's Malcolm Bradbury, 51. He appeared as a department chairman undermined by the Beat Generation in Eating People Is Wrong (1960); as a writer-in-residence vainly trying to go American in Stepping Westward (1966); and as a bystander steamrollered by trendy, sociology-spouting radicals in The History...