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...Reader Anne Plossl, in response to your article "Some Bones of Contention," wrote to ask [Jan. 11], "If white men wanted to learn about their own history, would they dig up Arlington National Cemetery?" The answer is yes-if anything could be learned. White men have been unearthing the bones of their ancestors for decades: in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt, just to name a few areas...
This is a nostalgia gone delightfully mad, and the reader is happy to inhale it by the cubic yard. But it comes flirtatiously close to novelizing, a practice Keillor claims in a funny preface to have forsworn after one grotesquely bad unpublishable failure. He writes short pieces, he says, in homage to The New Yorker's former great infield of James Thurber, A.J. Liebling, S.J. Perelman and E.B. White...
Finally, for no good reason at all, Fromson tacks on a little adventure involving KGB spies and American counter-intelligence. Again, the episode may be grounded in truth, but the amateurish way in which the author presents it only distracts the reader from the more sober, believable sections of the book...
...letter, Reader Mark Rogers says he opts for life under the Kremlin rather than death in a nuclear war. Having lived several years under Soviet rule, I, and many others with the same experience, would prefer dying to an endless existence in the people's paradise under Communism. Edward H. Vikart Ross, Calif...
...assignment proves difficult, dangerous and, at times, confusing to the reader. Buckley's narrative line has some loops and kinks. From a scene in which Oakes awaits sentence for espionage in Moscow, the book flashes back to Fascist Italy and fashionable Washington with a romantic side trip to Bermuda. Buckley the novelist, unlike Buckley the columnist and lecturer, is not out to score debating points. But there are some targets of opportunity that are too juicy to overlook. An American Communist lawyer, representing a captured Soviet spy, aggressively defends his client's civil rights in a manner that...