Word: reader
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...after all, difficult to weave numerous interviews together in a readable fashion. One wishes, nonetheless, that Gornick devised transitions more imaginative than bulletins announcing with which ex-Communist she drank coffee and with whom she guzzled Scotch. Descriptions of living room decor also fail to enhance the reader's understanding of American Communism's nature, romantic or otherwise. And, in most instances, her discourses on her subjects' family histories are of interest only to an eager parlor Freudian...
...well-guarded homelife, if such a challenge were not precisely what was in store. Castle, you see, is a double-agent who passes secrets to the Russians. I mention this crucial detail midway through this review because it's only at that point in the book that the reader discovers it. By that time, a number of outrages have occurred to rattle Castle's conscience and force him to put his sacred private life on the line. Suspecting a leak but collaring the wrong man, his superiors in the BSS have prematurely liquidated the man who shares Castle's office...
Last Tuesday Strout almost missed his weekly transformation. The day marked his 35th anniversary as TRB and his 80th as Richard Strout. He was toasted at breakfast by 30 capital colleagues, before lunch by his friends at the New Republic and after lunch at the Monitor, where Reader Jimmy Carter telephoned his congratulations. Strout got a late start on his column, but one would never know; as usual, TRB this week is a sprawling symphony of erudition, indignation, historical allusion and harmonic prose. His overture to a diatribe against the two-thirds Senate majority requirement for treaty approval...
...world has vanished; Jewish Poland went up in the smoke of the Holocaust. All that remains in the minds of most readers is some pictures, histories-and the imperishable memoirs of Isaac Bashevis Singer. In this brief, exalted account of his youth and his country's decline, the author summons memories of Warsaw when intellectuals argued the merits of Marxism, Zionism, atheism and love-above and below all, love. The preternaturally shy Isaac had his difficulties with older women and young ones. But Sabina, Stefa, Gina were as much a part of his education as the volumes he held...
...GOOD DETECTIVE STORY is the thinking man's answer to the tawdry romance. Well-written and skillfully-plotted mysteries, at their best, provide both escapism and a challenge to those little gray cells Hercule Poirot used so well. A devoted mystery reader can--and does--spend hours in an effort to beat the author at his own game--chasing subtle clues, eliminating suspects, trying to fit the events into one of the classic formulas conceived by the venerable Dame Agatha Christie...