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...Reader David Shults' criticism of Carl Sagan [Nov. 10] for referring to evolution as a fact is right in one sense. One cannot assume facts merely because they have been observed-not, at any rate, if the word fact is to mean unassailable truth. Real scientists are quite aware that a new observation or body of reasoning may at any time force the revision of large parts of what had hitherto been regarded as well-established knowledge...
FICTION: A Philip Roth Reader, Philip Roth ∙ Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙ Loon Lake, E.L. Doctorow ∙ Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits, Stanley Elkin ∙ The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙ The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty
Radical Principles, a collection of essays spanning Walzer's career, presents a dilemma to the reader who endorses the writer's early radical political aspiraitons. If his youthful writings have the nostalgic charm of historical value, his more recent essays are considerably more thought-provoking. Although he explicitly omits all writings on the war, the aspirations and politics of the radical movement--the New Left that derived much of its impetus from the war protest--serve as his preoccupying theme during the early '70s. This group of essays will surely disappoint most people who know Walzer as the serious...
FICTION: A Philip Roth Reader, Philip Roth ∙Crackers, Roy Blount Jr. Italian Folktales, selected and retold by Italo Calvino ∙Loon Lake,E.L. Doctorow ∙Stanley Elkin's Greatest Hits, Stanley Elkin ∙The Middle Ground, Margaret Drabble ∙The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty, Eudora Welty
...parents participated) and her father (the mother has been murdered), both on the run from pursuing government thugs intent on annihilating them. The first 250 pages are engrossing and entertaining, but then the fantasy that King has concocted falls flat, the spell he's cast is broken, and the reader is left with a runaway novel that leads to a stale, purposeless conclusion. King's recent books (The Dead Zone, The Stand) have not been up to the level of Carrie, the tight, well-paced drama that gave him his first major success; in Firestarter, an overpriced cheap thrill that...