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Inventing a terrorist conspiracy and then setting it in contemporary Jerusalem may seem a coals-to-Newcastle sort of enterprise. Why bother with make-believe when the reality is so vivid and convoluted? Robert Stone provides an engrossing answer in his sixth novel, Damascus Gate (Houghton Mifflin; 500 pages; $26). All of Stone's previous fiction has featured heroes whose problems are implicitly religious. Their pathologies--the heavy ingestion of drugs and booze, the habit of seeking or stumbling into serious, life-threatening trouble--stem from their uneasy sense that God still exists, but not for them. Damascus Gate makes...
...Harvard cliché that undergrads don't get the most out of their surroundings. The Radcliffe Yard doesn't get as much traffic as it ought to. Houghton library's rare books aren't thumbed through as regularly as they might be. And then there's Billings & Stover Apothecaries which, in a perfect world, would have been too much competition for Starbucks to handle...
...Make an appointment to view some rare books at Houghton Library. (Shakespeare's folios, the writings of William James, class of 1864, the letters of Robert Gould Shaw, class of 1860. When will you ever have access to these again...
DIED. ROBERT A. HOUGHTON, 84, dogged former Los Angeles assistant police chief who led swift and successful investigations into two of the city's most notorious crimes, the assassination of Robert Kennedy and the Manson family murders; in Los Angeles...
...American Pastoral (Houghton Mifflin) The title is ironic--a Philip Roth specialty. There is precious little rural peace and harmony in this scorching novel about a prosperous New Jersey couple whose good life is destroyed when their daughter becomes a '60s terrorist. In Roth's earlier novels, parents tended toward the comic and repressive. Not here. The author renders the Job-like suffering of a father and mother over a lost child with characteristic emotional force and verbal energy...