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...hero of Mark Helprin's new novel (Harcourt Brace; 514 pages; $24) has been, variously, a U. S. fighter pilot, a billionaire, a bank robber, a convicted killer and an inmate in a Swiss sanatorium. But what he is most is a bit of a nut, which he demonstrates principally through his lifelong war against the evils of coffee.TIME critic John Skowsays "If there is a trouble with Helprin's writing, it is that readers may have come by now to expect little more than to be dazzled every few pages....They certainly will be in Antproof, a wonderfully strange...
Indeed, Houghton joins a growing cadre ofbusiness leaders on the Corporation, whichincludes University Treasurer D. Ronald Daniel, anofficer at McKinsey & Company, Inc.; Richard A.Smith '46, CEO of Harcourt General, Inc.; andRobert G. Stone Jr. '45 of the Kirby Corporation...
Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975 (Harcourt Brace; 412 pages; $34.95) reveals just how much these two passionate minds had in common. To begin with, both thought the literary world a circus. The pages glitter with mad poets, deceitful lovers, long-suffering wives and natural-born snobs. The widow of George Orwell is quoted as having said, "Auschwitz, oh, dear no! That person was never in Auschwitz. Only in some very minor death camp...
Grandfather's Pencil, written and illustrated by Michael Foreman (Harcourt Brace; $14.95), is a dreamy tale of an English boy who finds a magical pencil lost by his grandfather, an old sailor. The boy sleeps. Moonlight floods his window. The pencil writes by itself, remembering its early life as part of a great tree. The paper it writes on remembers being logs in a wild river. The room's floorboards were part of a ship that flew a black flag. The grandfather was a boy; the boy will grow older. Fine drawings whisper the twin secrets of storytelling: long...
...extraliterary purposes, i.e., anything smacking of social engineering, are barbarians; and further still, that these barbarians are not at the gates but are largely in charge of American education and the nation's debased institutions of public discourse. His The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Harcourt Brace; 578 pages; $29.95) is thus, in part, a dire prophecy of the end of civilization as we know it: "I realize that the Balkanization of literary studies is irreversible...