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...writers can evoke this October country more trenchantly than Bradbury. No reader of The Fog Horn can pass a lighthouse without visualizing the sea creature listening in the darkness. Parents who understand The Small Assassin, the anecdote of a homicidal infant, will always wonder about the Freudian undercurrents coursing through the minds of their children...
Newcomers to Bradbury risk sensory overload by galloping through the book in the manner of the author's anthem sprinters. It is best to amble through this delightful collection. The volume, after all, contains 100 stories. A careful reader, consuming one a night, can make it last into the New Year. -By Peter Stoler...
...English, but the words animate Terkel's theme: "Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid/Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire." The dream that one nation can kindle the celestial fire dormant in any person is Terkel's American Dream. And for this woman, Studs Terkel, and the reader of his new book, the Dream survives...
...Italian Folktales is assuredly that, and a classic to boot. By making these 200 stories accessible to the general reader, Calvino, 56, has considerably enriched the world's supply of a seriously depleted commodity, oral history. Tales passed on through the centuries by word of mouth tell much more than their plots. In their diversity, they suggest the variety of dreams, the possible mutations of consciousness and climates. Their frequent similarities point teasingly in the opposite direction, toward some Ur tale that generated all the others, a narrative vast and potent enough to enclose the world. Writes Calvino: "Taken...
Rifkin's treatment of history best illustrates the deficiencies of a book to which any reader alienated by modern society would gravitate to as an answer to his problems. In one tidy half-page paragraph, Rifkin summarizes the historical theories of Toynbee, Spengler, Ortega y Gasset and Marx, allocating each scholar one sentence in this day of scarce resources. His next paragraphy begins...