Celia B. Betsky
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Adrienne Rich: 'Some Kind of Hetaira'
A DRIENNE Rich won the competition for the Yale Series of Younger Poets in 1951 when she was only a
Choose-Your-Own-Island
E VERY MAN is an island. In Rembrandt's Hat, Bernard Malamud presents a choice new collection of short stories, and
More Sinned Against Than Saintly
F RANCO ZEFFIRELLI has fallen victim to the youth movement. In an attempt to tell the story of St. Francis
Ingmar Bergman Stresses Couples, Critic Simon Says
"Hell alone, or hell together" is the question Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman poses in his films, critic John Simon
Bernard Malamud: A Writer's Experience
I N A LITERARY WORLD that loves to pin labels on its writers, Bernard Malamud has often been called the
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Y OU AINT ANY CRAZIER than the average asshole on the street," decides Randle P. McMurphy, the hero of Ken
Caught in the Parent Trap
B ACK IN THE '50's little blonde poppets land parent-traps for their unsuspecting elders and the sacred foursome of the
The Coming of Age in Tokyo
I N THE COMING OF AGE, Simone de Beauvoir recounts the plot of the ancient Japanese novel Narayama. It tells
Against the Feminist Telescope
T HE LEVEL of literary criticism in the women's movement today is shamefully low," Elizabeth Hardwick told me, the afternoon
Festival May 1 to May 14
W OULD you believe an arts festival at Harvard? How about a celebration of spring entitled the Harvard Square Arts