Greg Lawless
A Christmas Chimera
S ING HOSANNAS on high, Christmas is here, Get in the mood of holiday cheer. But before the wassails, listen
Newspeak in Movementland
O NE OF THE BEST parts of 1984 comes when Winston Smith talks about his country's history, how Big Brother
Rescuing Romance
W >HEN NORTHROP FRYE came to Harvard last year to give the Charles Eliot Norton lecture on poetry, he was
Swine Before Pearls
J AMES JOYCE ONCE wrote a friend that Finnegan's Wake would keep the scholars guessing until doomsday. Doomsday might be
Bad Trip
T HERE'S AN OLD TRICK in English literature; I don't know if it has a name, but generally it's an
TELEVISION
WEDNESDAY Welfare. When Frederick Wisemen released his documentary called Primate last year it caused a lot of controversy in the
The Myth of Northrop Frye
Northrop Frye tells a good story about how he came to teach the Bible. When he was still a junior
Searching for the Queen of Hearts
W OMEN SINGERS have only recently come into their own and Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Grace Slick, and Joni Mitchell
An Elegant Abstraction
A CCORDING TO the the Guinness Book of World Records, the longest sentence in the world does not belong to
A Sentimental Celebration
A FTER A SUMPTUOUS repast not long ago, some writers sitting around a table in the corner of a large
A Clockwork Lemon
A NTHONY BURGESS would be pleased to find out that his latest book can be compared to the work of
All of the People, Always
R UMOR HASIT that Richard Nixon wants to get back into politics as a special adviser to the Republican Party,
The Box-Man Numbeth
W HEN A NEW Japanese product comes onto the American market, its skillful design, its inexpensiveness, and its dubious durability
Christmas Shopping
O NE OF THE MORE interesting aspects of the holiday season is the way magazines get fat all of a
Connive To Survive, Stay Alive Til Five
J OSEPH HELLER has been on an odyssey for the last 13 years. Since Catch-22 was published in 1961 he
