The first oddity about Kenneth Lynn’s book of once-published pieces is its title. True, the locomotive on the dust jacket gives away what kind of line is an air-line, but who would have guessed that this particular railroad passed through …
It is hard to imagine a contemporary novel making life as difficult for itself, and then performing as creditably, as Waiting for the News. Consider: an unfashionable subject—a Jewish labor organizer in Detroit in the late 1930s fighting on two …
STUDENT ACTIVISM still looms as the foremost fact of life in schools everywhere. In the past year demands have escalated, tactics have become more disruptive and abrasive, countermeasures more harsh and angry. While it is too early to say what …
