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...TRUE REVOLUTIONARY IS GUIDED by great feelings of love," Che Guevara is quoted as saying in A TASTE OF POWER: A BLACK WOMAN'S STORY (Pantheon; $25). By that standard, author Elaine Brown is a genuine radical. She tells an absorbing story of real struggle: how she became the leader of the Black Panther Party, how she and the party battled racism, and how she fought sexism within the group. Her prose is unpretentious and involving. She makes the political personal by recounting her affair with Huey Newton, founder of the Panthers. Newton is revealed as a difficult man, sometimes...
...offensive finds no place in the Vietnamese pantheon of military victories. The government did not even bother to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the battle this year. Today, says a journalist who lives in the south, "most people here just want to forget about it, and most young people just don't care...
...Einstein posed himself that playful question; his answer was the special theory of relativity, which utterly changed how scientists see time and space. Writers have tried to explain relativity ever since, but Alan Lightman, who teaches physics and writing at M.I.T., has an entirely new approach. EINSTEIN'S DREAMS (Pantheon, $17) is a novel, an impressionistic look at thoughts the great physicist might have had while concocting his theory. We are privy to musings about worlds where time runs backward or branches into diverging streams. The writing, beautifully simple, conveys better than most texts the strangeness of Einstein's ideas...
...inevitably right that Walcott has assumed his rightful place in the literary pantheon. The people of the region cannot, as he suggests, wait for "a broader more benign consideration of the Caribbean." It is they who are responsible for its imaginative redefinition...
PUBLISHER: PANTHEON; 531 PAGES...