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Speakers from each class included astrophysicist Edward Kolb, African novelist Chinua Achebe and reporter Daniel Schorr...
...show of Carroll's camera portraits of adults and children at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art that will travel to Houston, New York and Chicago. It appears at the same time as The Lives of the Muses (HarperCollins; 416 pages), a supple work of cultural history by novelist Francine Prose, whose subject is the women who have inspired creative men from Samuel Johnson to John Lennon. She tells us, "The lives of the muses greatly expand our limited notions of Eros," and she includes within those notions Carroll's not quite sexual, not quite chaste infatuations. Prose devotes...
When John Major succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister, some wondered whether he would ever prove himself half the man the Iron Lady had been. Edwina Currie's newly published diaries - in which the novelist and former Conservative minister reveals that she and Major had an affair from 1984 to '88 - should ensure that the former Tory leader will never again be so easily underestimated. Since the book came out, Currie has added details about the liaison, including how she and Major planned assignations as they sat behind Thatcher during Prime Minister's Question Time in the House of Commons...
...this is just a self-conscious cop-out. Likewise, Alex's best friend, Adam, is arranging his own collection of autographs into a cabalistic diagram meant to signify--well, we never learn what, but it obviously services Smith's theme of the power of names. It's a novelist's conceit or a conceptual artist's, not a convincing outgrowth of character...
Scott F. Turow (Harvard Law School ’78), a lawyer and novelist. His next book, Reversible Errors, comes out in October. His previous best-sellers include Presumed Innocent and One L, a memoir of his first year at Harvard Law School. Every language except English. Physics, including the basic stuff, despite a miracle C in college. Who will fall in love with who. And if the Cubs will ever again play in the World Series...