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Gopher refers to computer servers that offer a series of menus allowing students to view texts. Everything from government documents to The New Yorker magazine can be accessed over Gopher...
Lawrence Wright's Remembering Satan (Knopf; 205 pages; $22) seems likely to / be considered the most powerful and disturbing true crime narrative to appear since Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. But what was the crime? Certainly it was not satanic abuse, says Wright, a New Yorker reporter, although a man sits in jail for confessing to just that...
...discontent about the women in his fiction has been duly registered. More recently, Brent Staples, an editorial writer for the New York Times, objected in a memoir to the portrayal of a black man in Mr. Sammler's Planet, and in March, critic Alfred Kazin wrote in the New Yorker that "my heart sank when I heard that Bellow once asked, 'Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus? The Proust of the Papuans...
...arts and media editor, Collins will indulge his passion for culture -- high and low -- full time. A film addict, a native New Yorker who spent his adolescence in downtown jazz clubs and whiles away his grownup years at the opera, Collins brings an intellectually charged hipness to TIME's cultural coverage. "I'm interested in what you might call the culture business and the decisions that are made at movie studios and publishing houses and record companies that affect what people see and read and listen to," he explains...
...Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. No doubt that was how the man who masterminded the merger of Time Inc. (which owns TIME) and Warner Communications wished to be perceived. But the Steve Ross who emerges in Master of the Game (Simon & Schuster; 395 pages; $25), New Yorker staff writer Connie Bruck's intelligent and fascinating biography, is composed equally of George Bailey, Don Corleone, Felix Krull and Oskar Schindler -- Steven Spielberg has said Ross was a model for the portrayal of Schindler in Schindler's List...