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...interesting to note that John Updike, in his Bech chronicles, Philip Roth, in his Zuckerman books, and now Doctorow have written some of their best recent work about the impossibility of writing. Writers, it seems certain, will outsurvive cockroaches, no matter what toxins they spray on themselves. -By John Skow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Between Books | 12/24/1984 | See Source »

...singer could not make the leap to Boheme. She might have quit then and sunk a production that depended heavily on her name. That she stayed to take her critical lumps may have been arrogance, or it may have been a rare act of gallantry. ?By John Skow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Petit Opera, Not Grand | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...John Skow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Monstrous | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...dirty business whose dirt is fairly evenly distributed on both sides. Forsyth was darkly entertaining in The Day of the Jackal, but his new book is tract writing, and its tendentious guff leaves the reader where he started, unwilling to believe and unable to escape. -By John Skow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: No Escape | 9/3/1984 | See Source »

...Contributor John Skow, who had covered the tragic 1972 Olympics in Munich, comparisons were inescapable: "Before the massacre of the Israeli athletes, journalists freely roamed the athletes' quarters. No such freedom prevailed in Los Angeles. But despite the restrictions, security officials were unfailingly courteous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 13, 1984 | 8/13/1984 | See Source »

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