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...these fields seem to constitute a random sampling of careers that Harvard undergraduates may or may not be interested in. One cannot say with a straight face that the number of pre-law students at Harvard merits only one law firm at the annual career fair. And what of the premeds? There were no hospitals or medical schools. What of those wanting to go to graduate school in the arts and sciences? There were no university representatives except for two dozen study-abroad organizations. Of course, the medical schools and law schools probably figured they didn't need to come...
...come from. Robert Harris, whose chilling novel Fatherland imagined what Europe might have been like had World War II stalled out in an English defeat and a U.S. withdrawal, makes a brave try at construing genius, the light bulb over the unicorn's head, in his new novel, Enigma (Random House; 320 pages; $23). The results are worthy and believable, if not luminous...
TIME WAS WHEN A LITTLE BOY WHO wanted to see a dirty word in print made a surreptitious trip to the dictionary and got his thrill. Now, with the publication of The F-Word (Random House paperback; 232 pages; $12.95), any curious boy or, for that matter, girl can get a bonanza of thrills and at the same time become the most foulmouthed and maybe most envied kid on the block...
Vidal turns 70 this month, a fitting time for a man of letters to turn his hand to recollections. But in Palimpsest (Random House; 438 pages; $27.50), he proves a reluctant memoirist. Elsewhere he has confessed that he only embarked on this book in order to stay a step ahead of two biographers. For Vidal the resurrection of his early life (the story ends when he is 39) seems to be an irksome enterprise, and the book reads that...
...Robert K. Massie points out in The Romanovs: The Final Chapter (Random House; 320 pages; $25), the imperial family's murder was only one horrifying moment in an unfinished saga. Shortly after officials in Moscow announced that the Czar had been shot (there was no immediate mention of his family), rumors arose that some or even all of the royals had managed to escape. In the 1920s, Europe and America were almost awash with fraudulent Romanov wannabes, several of them demanding access to a huge fortune that Nicholas had allegedly secreted abroad...