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...poem is read aloud in a bookstore but no one is around to listen to it (because everyone is off sipping espresso in the cafe or skimming the latest shock-a-minute memoir), does it make a sound? This April--designated National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets--might be a good time to ponder that question. More admired in principle than in practice, more respected than read, American poetry has survived the '90s through a combination of benign neglect, accumulated goodwill and a devoted cult of readers who will still be on deck reciting favorite lines should...
DIED. ARKADY SHEVCHENKO, 67, Soviet apparatchik turned spook who boldly defected to the U.S. in 1978, when he was Under Secretary-General of the United Nations, and later told all about the Kremlin in the best-selling memoir Breaking with Moscow; of an apparent heart attack; in Bethesda, Md. One of Shevchenko's CIA debriefers was agent Aldrich Ames, the Soviet mole who later sold secrets to Moscow...
After putting down The Discipline of Hope, master educator Herbert Kohl's memoir of his thirty-year plight to reorganize education in the United States from the ground up, one can't help but wonder how to categorize the work. Is it a disheartening account of the state of public schools in New York and California, a disparaging, almost Biblical example of a pedagogue martyred for his outspoken support for children's rights, or the uplifting autobiography of a man who turned the complacent public education system on its ear? The simplest answer is that it is a synthesis...
Media tycoon RUPERT MURDOCH is an ardent supporter of a free press, as long as it doesn't cost him too much. Last week HarperCollins U.K.--a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp., which has considerable interests in China--suddenly dumped East and West, a memoir by former Hong Kong Governor CHRIS PATTEN that offers a frank and not always flattering assessment of the Chinese government. Though his editors were enthusiastic and though Patten signed a contract for $200,000, Murdoch took a dimmer view; a News Corp. statement said, "Murdoch did not agree with many of Patten's positions...
Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch is an ardent supporter of a free press, as long as it doesn't cost him too much. Last week HarperCollins U.K. -- a subsidiary of Murdoch's News Corp., which has considerable interests in China -- suddenly dumped "East and West," a memoir by former Hong Kong governor Chris Patten that offers a frank and not always flattering assessment of the Chinese government. Though his editors were enthusiastic and though Patten signed a contract for $200,000, Murdoch took a dimmer view; a News Corp. statement said, "Murdoch did not agree with many of Patten's positions...