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Novelists, on the other hand, need have no such scruples, and here are two who certainly don't. John Darnton, chief London correspondent for the New York Times, has entered the arena with a book called Neanderthal (Random House; 368 pages; $24), centered on the large-brained human species that, as far as paleontologists are concerned, became extinct about 27,000 years ago. Simultaneously, screenwriter Petru Popescu has weighed in with Almost Adam (William Morrow; 544 pages; $24), about australopiths, a group of small-brained but upright-walking human precursors whose most recent fossils are more than a million years...
...Notched-Noise"; Emily M. Tucker '96 for Animula Vagula Blandula: A Study in the Use and Formation of the Latin Diminutive"; Jennifer M. Ty '96 for "Is Walking With Two Cheaper to Do? The Energetic Cost of Walking and Running in a Non-Human Biped"; Balint Virag '96 for "Random Walks on Finite Convex Sets of Lattice Points"; Adam K. Webb '96 for "Community, Peasants, and the Shining Path Guerrillas: A Field Study in Ayacucho, Peru"; Geordie Young '96 for "The Distribution of Void Sizes During Structure Formation in the Universe"; and Timothy P. Yu '96 for "Angles of Submission...
Possession is by far A.S. Byatt's best-known novel. A miraculous blend of contemporary and Victorian morality and romance, it won the 1990 Booker Prize in Britain just as it was being published in the U.S. to glowing reviews and warm sales. Babel Tower (Random House; 625 pages; $25.95) is Byatt's first novel since then, and will surely attract the attention of all those enchanted by Possession. It is also likely to provoke some head scratching, since the new novel continues a story begun in two of Byatt's earlier, pre-Possession books...
...BOOKS . . . ANTS ON THE MELON: 'Ants on the Melon' (Random House; 158 pages; $21) is something of a miracle: the first book of poetry by an 83-year-old woman, sightless now from glaucoma, who resides at a retirement community in Claremont, California. But this slim volume distills a lifetime of writing. A graduate of Mount Holyoke and Radcliffe, Virginia Adair in her green years was considered a poet of promise. Thanks in part to the demands of marriage (in 1937 to the historian Douglass Adair Jr.), motherhood and teaching, she stopped publishing but kept on writing. Literary fame meant...
Despite the few technical problems and random incidents of feedback, the concert is almost perfect. Much of the crowd seemed like veterans of the Eve's Plum concert experience, recognizing songs after only a few notes. It doesn't take long to understand the main reason for the group's appeal--their musical style has no boundaries. Eve's Plum fans want only to enjoy the band's cheery attitude and listen to great music. The band allows the audience to escape into a sweetened technicolor world that washes their problems away for an hour or two. What more could...