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{"value"=>"<p>The book reviews by Grumbach are arranged chronologically in the period 1951-2001 and undated. Following the chronological file, are files of reviews published in <span class=\"title\">Fine Print, A Review for Arts of the Book</span> (1983-1987, 1989); <span class=\"title\">The Small Press, The Magazine of Independent Publishing</span> (1985-1986); and reviews prepared for National Public Radio. Most of the files contain a manuscript draft, a clean typescript draft, a clipping or copy of the publication in which the review was published, and an occasional galley proof. Some files contain correspondence from editors, publishers and readers. In the 1950s - 1960s period most of the reviews are in the form of copies of the published review. The files of reviews published in <span class=\"title\">Fine Print</span> and in <span class=\"title\">The Small Press</span> contain manuscript and clean typescript drafts, correspondence with editors or publishers, and a copy of the issue in which the review was published. The reviews prepared for National Public Radio consist of a file of manuscript and clean typescript drafts arranged alphabetically; followed by a file arranged chronologically (1982-1988).</p>"}
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  1. Miscellaneous reviews
  2. Miscellaneous reviews
  3. I Married a Priest by Joan Longo (National Catholic Reporter)
  4. Unfinished Woman by Lillian Hellman (National Catholic Reporter)
  5. The Buried Life, by Midge Turk (The New Republic)
  6. Birds of America by Mary McCarthy (National Catholic Reporter)
  7. The Companionate Marriage by Judge Ben B. Lindsey (The New Republic)
  8. Etiquette by Amy Vanderbilt (The New Republic)
  9. The Wonderful World of Women's Wear Daily by Katie Kelly (The New Republic)
  10. The Coming of Age by Simone de Beauvoir (The New Republic)
  11. Tight White Collar by John L'Heureux (America)
  12. Private Faces / Public Places by Abigail McCarthy (The New Republic)
  13. Religion May Be Hazardous to Your Health by Eli Chesen (Commonweal)
  14. Museums and Women and Other Stories by John Updike (The New Republic)
  15. Reviews of books by Simone de Beauvoir, Joseph P. Lash, Peter Matthiessen, Edith Wharton, and Mark Twain (Commonweal)
  16. Reviews of books by Hortense Callisher (America)
  17. Reviews of books by Nena & George O'Neill, Kathryn Perutz, Robert Francoeur, Jessie Bernard (Commonweal)
  18. Nobody Ever Died of Old Age by Sharon C. Curtin (The New Republic)
  19. Reviews of books by Ingrid Bengis, Gail Parker, Nancy F. Cott, Esther Vilar (The New Republic)
  20. Short reviews (The New Republic)
  21. Apostles of Light by Ellen Douglas (America)
  22. The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton (The New Republic)
  23. Dorothy Thompson, A Legend in Her Time by Marion K. Sanders (The New Republic)
  24. The Summer Before the Dark by Dorothy Lessing (The New Republic)
  25. The Eternal Bliss Machine by Marcia Seligson (The New Republic)
  26. Books by Catharine R. Stimpson (The New Republic)
  27. The Lady Was a Bishop by Joan Morris (The New Republic)
  28. Intellectual Skywriting: Literary Politics and The New York Review of Books by Philip Nobile (The Washington Post)
  29. Intellectual Skywriting: Literary Politics and The New York Review of Books by Philip Nobile (The New York Post)
  30. Seducation and Betrayal: Women and Literature by Elizabeth Hardwicke (The New York Post)
  31. Joy in Our Case by Carol Emshwiller (MS. magazine)
  32. Conspiracy by John C. Raines (Commonweal)
  33. The Glory of the Hummingbird by Pewter De Vries (The Washington Post)
  34. Miscellaneous reviews in The Washington Post
  35. Before My Time by Maureen Howard (New York Times Book Review)
  36. Going by Sumner Locke Elliot (The Washington Post)
  37. The Great Victorian Collection by Brian Moore (The Washington Post)
  38. An Island Death by Sol Yurick (The New York Times Book Review)
  39. Crucial Conversations by May Sarton (The New York Times Book Review)
  40. Rocking by Rosalind Wright (The Washington Post)
  41. Bitches & Sad Ladies... by Pat Rotter (Ms. magazine)
  42. Reviews of books by John McPhee, Richard Kostelanetz, Brian Moore, Caroline Bird, and James Ross (The Washington Post)
  43. Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow (The New Republic)
  44. The Grass Is Singing; and The Memoirs of a Survivor by Doris Lessing (The Los Angeles Times)
  45. Crazy Salad: Some Things about Woman by Nora Ephron (The Washington Post)
  46. Judy Garland biographies (The New York Times)
  47. Some Kind of Hero by James Kirkwood (The Washington Post)
  48. Mrs. Seton: Foundress of the American Sisters of Charity by Joseph Dirvin (The Washington Post)
  49. Growing Up Rich by Anne Bernays (The Washington Post)
  50. Nightwork by Irwin Shaw (The Washington Post)
  51. Beyond the Bedroom Wall by Larry Woiwode (Newsday)
  52. The Collected Stories of Hortense Calisher (The New York Times Book Review)
  53. A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Equality by Ellen Peck (The Washington Post)
  54. Reviews of books by Richard Yates, V. R. Lang, Bernard Packer, William Bradfor Huie, and David Bradley (The Washington Post)
  55. August
  56. Reviews of books by J. F. Powers and Mark Helprin (The Washington Post)
  57. Reviews of books by E. L. Doctorow, Saul Bellow, Joseph Heller, Jerzy Kosinski, R.W.B. Lewis, and Hortense Calisher (Commonweal)
  58. Indecent Pleasures by William Targ (Bookletter; and Bookwoman)
  59. Oscar Wilde, A Biography by H. Montgomery Hyde (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  60. The Verdict by Hildegard Knef (The Washington Post)
  61. Picked-Up Pieces by John Updike (The Washington Post)
  62. Review of The New Columbia Encyclopedia
  63. My Life by Golda Meir (The Washington Post)
  64. Anais Nin: A Woman Speaks by Evelyn J. Hinz (Book World)
  65. The Devil and Cotton Mather by Katherine Anne Porter (The Village Voice)
  66. The Carfitt Crisis by J.P. Priestley (The Washington Post)
  67. Inner Companions by Colman McCarthy (Smithsonian)
  68. The Girl Sleuth: A Feminist Guide by Bobbie Ann Mason (The Washington Post)
  69. Searching for Caleb by Anne Tyler (The Los Angeles Times)
  70. Family Feeling by Helen Yglesias (The Washington Post)
  71. Dream Children by Gail Godwin (The Washington Post)
  72. The History of Man by Malcolm Bradbury (Chronicle of Higher Education Review)
  73. Simple and Direct by Jacques Barzun (Rocky Mountain News; The Washington Post)
  74. In a Shallow Grave by James Purdy (The Washington Post)
  75. A Hero in His Time by Arthur A. Cohen (The Village Voice)
  76. Kinflicks by Lisa Alther (Saturday Review)
  77. Women of the Shadows by Ann Cornelison (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  78. Manly-Hearted Woman by Frederick Manfred (The Washington Post)
  79. Scoundrel Time by Lillian Hellman (Newsday)
  80. Zone of the Interior by Clancy Segal (The Village Voice)
  81. Review entitled Spring Prospects! A Blend of Self-Help and Self- Righteousness (Change)
  82. Mr. Wrong by Elizabeth Jane Howard (MS. magazine)
  83. Review of University Press Books (Commonweal)
  84. The 400 Eels of Sigmund Freud by A.J. Mojtabi (New York Times Book Review)
  85. Peculiar Institutions by Elaine Kendall (Change)
  86. I Can't Stay Long by Laurie Lee (Smithsonian)
  87. Brothers by Chayym Zeldis (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  88. Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy (Chicago Tribune)
  89. Ruby by Rosa Guy (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  90. A Fine Romance by Cynthia Propper Seton (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  91. Beautiful Swimmers by William W. Warner (The Washingtonian)
  92. Bear by Marian Engel (The New York Times Book Review)
  93. Gerhardt's Children by Jerrold Mundis (Saturday Review)
  94. The Widow's Children by Paula Fox (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  95. Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood (Saturday Review)
  96. A Sea-Change by Lois Gould (The Chicago Tribune)
  97. Perish the Thought by Susan P. Conrad (Change)
  98. Poets of the Black Box (The Washingtonian)
  99. Lovers and Tyrants by Francine du Plessix Gray (The Chicago Tribune)
  100. Speedboat by Renata Adler (The Washington Post)
  101. Lucinella by Lore Segal (The Washington Post)
  102. Oxford University Press and Women's Studies (University Publishing)
  103. The Takeover by Muriel Spark (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  104. Mark Twain's Notebooks and Journals by Frederick Anderson, et al (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  105. Polonaise by Piers Paul Read (The Washington Post)
  106. Reviews of Christmas Give Away Books (Washingtonian)
  107. Endnote Homage to 1976 (Bookletter)
  108. The Boardwalk by Robert Kotlowitz (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  109. Torch Song by Anne Roiphe (The Chicago Tribune)
  110. The Alteration by Kingsley Amis (The Washington Post)
  111. The Adventures of Jonathan Corncob by Noel Perrin (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  112. A Fringe of Leaves by Patrick White (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  113. Simone Weil: A Life by Simone Petrement (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  114. Selected Letters of William Faulkner by Joseph Blotner (The Chicago Tribune)
  115. Everything in Its Path by Kai T. Grikson (The Washington Post
  116. The Children of Dynmouth by William Trevor (The Washington Post)
  117. Condominium by John D. MacDonald (Bookletter)
  118. Going Blind by Jonathan Penner (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  119. A Book of Common Prayer by Joan Didion (Washington Post Book World)
  120. Evidence of Love by Shirley Ann Grau (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  121. I Have Come Here to Be Alone, Ingrid Bengis (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  122. Booknotes (Washingtonian)
  123. Death, Dying and the Biological Revolution by Robert M. Veatch (Skeptic)
  124. The Faces of Eve by Judith Fryer; and Women and Marriage in Victorian Fiction by Jenni Calder (Smithsonian)
  125. History: A Novel by Elsa Morante (Saturday Review)
  126. The Future of the Humanities by Walter Kaufmann (Washington Post Book World)
  127. Reviews of books by George D. Painter, Mary Kathleen Benet, and Lewis Carroll (New York Times Book Review)
  128. In the Miro District & Other Stories by Peter Taylor (Los Angeles Times)
  129. Reviews of books by I.E.S. Edwards, Kenneth S. Allen, S. Schoenbaum, and Stephen S. Rosen (New York Times Book Review)
  130. Sita by Kate Millett (The Chicago Tribune)
  131. Reviews of books re the Central Intelligience Agency (Skeptic)
  132. Reviews of books by Simon Kalinsky, Bertrand Mathieu, Kenneth Dauber, James Hoopes, Dorothy Eagle, and Hilary Carnell (New York Times Book Review)
  133. Poets (Washingtonian)
  134. Literary Women by Ellen Moers (Signs)
  135. Fine Print and Ms. Magazine (Saturday Review)
  136. Notables (Skeptic)
  137. Reviews of books by H.R.F. Keating, Mary Nash, Humphrey Carpenter, J. Robert Moskin, and Alexander B. Adams (New York Times Book Review)
  138. Reviews of books by Frederic Grendel, Constantine Fitzgibbon, George A. Panichas, A. Dwight Culler, and Barbara Hardy ((New York Times Book Review)
  139. At Random, The Reminiscences of Bennet Cerf (The Chicago Tribune)
  140. Attachments by Judith Rossner; and In the Flesh by Hilma Wolitzer (Saturday Review)
  141. Reviews of books by Michael Holquist, Derek Hudson, Wolf ManKowitz, Quentin Anderson, and Martha Vicinius (New York Times Book Review)
  142. The Ice Age by Margaret Drabble (The Chicago Tribune)
  143. Eyes, Etc.: A Memoir by Eleanor Clark (Saturday Review)
  144. Reviews of books by Jerome KlinKowitz, John S. Crosbie, Daphne du Maurier, and Mario Martino (New York Times Book Review)
  145. Caught in the Web of Words by K.M. Elizabeth Murray (Saturday Review)
  146. Marina and Lee by Priscilla Johnson McMillan (The Chicago Tribune)
  147. Rails of the World by S. Dillon Ripley (Saturday Review)
  148. The House by the Sea by May Sarton (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  149. Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales by Isak Dinesen ( Saturday Review)
  150. Reviews of books by Edward Butscher, Murray Polner, Odie B. Faulk, and George Spater (The New York Times Book Review)
  151. Fine Print - Siftings (Saturday Review)
  152. Inklings by Geoffrey Wolff (Saturday Review)
  153. Reviews of books by Edward Lueders, Joseph T. Shipley, Philip Howard, and Peter Saccio (The New York Times Book Review)
  154. A Review of the Craft of Reviewing (The Writer)
  155. My Mother / My Self by Nancy Friday (The New York Times Book Review)
  156. Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  157. Reviews of The Last Cowboy by Jane Kramer; Within This Wilderness by Feenie Ziner; and The Children of Bladensfield by Evelyn K. Ward (Saturday Review)
  158. Reviews re Dover books; and books by Glen Cavaliiero, Susan Sperling, Anne Freemantle, John K. Hutchens, and Garson Kanin (The New York Times Book Review)
  159. In Such Dark Places by Joseph Caldwell; and Final Payments by Mary Gordon (Saturday Review)
  160. Reviews of books on freaks by Irving and Amy Wallace, Leslie Fielder and Charles McLean (Saturday Review)
  161. Reviews of books by Frank Huggett, John Robinson, Gordon Parks, and Arlene Francis (The New York Times Book Review)
  162. Reviews of books by Evan H. Rhodes, Carl Erdmann, Lewis Carroll, and Peter Collenette (Saturday Review)
  163. A Family Trust by Ward Just (Saturday Review)
  164. Billy Phelan's Greatest Game by William Kennedy (The Knickerbocker News; and Saturday Review)
  165. Perdido by Jill Robinson (The Chicago Tribune)
  166. Reviews of books by Matthew J. Broccoli, Charles M Segal, Alix Holt, Paul Colinvaux, and Rockwell Kent (The New York Times Book Review)
  167. Beggars and Choosers by Laura Kalpakian (Chronicle of Higher Education)
  168. The World According to Garp by John Irving (Saturday Review)
  169. The Legacy of Mark Rothko by Lee Seldes (The Chicago Tribune)
  170. Reviews of books by James Beveridge, Emilie C. Hartung, Linda Maric, Geoffrey Tillotson, and Sheila Hailey (New York Times Book Review)
  171. Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell (Parnassus: Poetry in Review)
  172. Two Tales by Charlotte Bronte; and Conversations with Willie- Recollections of W. Somerset Maugham (Saturday Review)
  173. Reviews of books by Morris Kline, Nathan M. Pusey, Mark Schorer, Errol Trzebinski, and Paul Wellstone (The New York Times Book Review)
  174. Families by Jane Howard (Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  175. Miss Marks and Miss Wooley by Anna Mary Wells (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  176. My Eight Presidents by Sarah McClendon (The Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  177. The View from Morningside by Constance Taber Colby (New York Times Book Review
  178. Women's Letters, Diaries, and Fiction (Saturday Review)
  179. Silences by Tillie Olsen (The Washington Post)
  180. Cinder by Rick DeMarinus (The Chicago Tribune)
  181. Reviews of books by John Gould, John W. Gardner, Donald MacCampbell, and Flo Conway and Jin Siegelman (The New York Times)
  182. Maxwell Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg; and What Is an Editor? Saxe Cummins at Work by Dorothy Cummins (Saturday Review)
  183. Uncle by Julia Markus (The Saturday Review)
  184. Selected Stories by V.S. Pritchett (The Washington Post)
  185. Reviews of books by David Macauley, Hans Kraus, and Ian McEwan (Saturday Review)
  186. Critical Encounters: Literary Views & Reviews by Nona Balakian; and Lives, Works & Transformations by Robert Kirsch (Saturday Review)
  187. First Person Rural by Noel Perrin (Saturday Review)
  188. Reviews of books by Anne de Brunhoff, Anthony Trollope, and Robert Bernen (Saturday Review)
  189. Small-Press Publishing: Is It Still Beautiful and Prosperous? (New York Book Fair)
  190. Wrinkles by Charles Simmons (The Chicago Tribune)
  191. Blanco; and Things about to Disappear by Allan Weir (Saturday Review)
  192. Nocturnes for the King of Naples by Edward White (The New York Review)
  193. I, etcetera by Susan Sontag (The Los Angeles Times)
  194. The Realists by C. P. Snow (The Chronicle Review )
  195. Reviews of books by Anne Lyon Haight and Chandler B. Grannis, Annette K. Baxter with Constance Jacobs, Jack Sullivan, and Edith LaZebnik (The New York Times Book Review)
  196. The Execution by Robert Mayer (The Chicago Tribune)
  197. Reviews of books by Jeff Dykes, William Stafford, Stanley Kunitz, Kathy Walup, Denise Levertov, Randolph Caldecott, and James D. Cooper (Saturday Review)
  198. Birdy by William Wharton (The Washington Post)
  199. Atlantic City Proof by Christopher Cook Gilmore (The Chicago Tribune Bookworld)
  200. Reviews of books by Katharine Briggs, Christopher Fry, Frank Swinnerton, and Leonid Berman (The New York Times Book Review)
  201. Reviews of books by Alice Adams, Curtis Hamack, and Barrie Hughes (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  202. Reviews of The Greenfield Review, In the Museum of Temporary Art, Alembic, Vital Statistics, and others (The Saturday Review)
  203. Reviews of books by Gerald Brenan, Jerry Patterson, and Ben Stein (The New York Times Book Review)
  204. Reviews of books by Bernard Malamud and Cynthia Propper Seton (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  205. Starting by Helen Yglesias (The New York Times Book Review)
  206. Reviews of books by Elizabeth Mooney, Ellen Goodman, Harold Faber, and Sabine Baring-Gould (The New York Times Book Review)
  207. We Must March My Darlings; and Reviewing the Forties by Diana Trilling (Change)
  208. Reviews of books by Leon E. Stover, Rosemary Ruether and Eleanor McLaughlin, and Hugh Witemeyer (The New York Times Book Review)
  209. Reviews of books by Alison Lurie, Rhoda Lehrman, Susan Richards Shreve, and Clark Blaise (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  210. Favors by Bernice Rubens (The Washington Post)
  211. Reviews of books by Suzanne Campbell-Jones, Emmet Tyrell, Jr., Vera Mae Stone, and Malissa Redfield (The New York Times Book Review)
  212. Reviews of books by Elizabeth Hardwick, Frederick Busch, William Trevor and Henry James (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  213. Reviews of books by Ruth Sidel, Richard Kenin, John Nichols and William Davis, Leo Rosten, Helen B. Strauss and Thomas Merton (The New York Times)
  214. Gulliver House by John Leggett (The Chicago Tribune)
  215. Reviews of books by William Styron, Morris Philipson, Alice Hoffman, Kingsley Amis, Walter Murphy, and John Casey (The Chronicle of Books & Arts)
  216. Review of a three-volume Bible by Bradbury Thompson (Smithsonian)
  217. A Long Desire by Evan S. Connell (The Washington Post)
  218. Reviews of books by Paul Moore, Jr., Jean Chalon, and Carl Dawson (The New York Times Book Review)
  219. Reviews of books by Thomas D. Cabot, Henry Regnery, and Neeli Cherkovski (The New York Times Book Review)
  220. Reviews of books by Muriel Spark, Ian McEwan, Bernard Packer, and Stratis Haviaras (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  221. Reviews of books by Thomas C. Wheeler, Rushworth M. Kidder, Stephanie Kraft, and Christopher Bird (New York Times Book Review)
  222. The Rock That Cried by Ellen Douglas (The Washington Post)
  223. The Ghost Writer by Philip Roth (The Washington Star)
  224. Honor, Power, Riches, Fame, and the Love of Women by Ward Just (The Chicago Tribune)
  225. Reviews of books by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Brian Moore, and Nadine Gordimer (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  226. Reviews of books by Margaret Dickie Uroff, Harold Acton, Leona Marshall Libby (The New York Times Book Review)
  227. Cannibals and Missionaries by Mary McCarthy; and Gloria Mundi by Eleanor Clark (The Chicago Tribune)
  228. Reviews of books by Terry Davis, John Hawkes, and Dan McCall (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  229. Reviews of books by Ann Thwaite and Ronald Haymen, Judy Dater, Mieczyslaw Malinski, and Lillian B. Rubin (The New York Times Book Review)
  230. Shikasta by Doris Lessing (The Washington Star)
  231. Old Love by Isaac Bashevis Singer (The Washington Post)
  232. Reviews of books by John Updike, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Mary Morris (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  233. Fiction in 1979 (The Washington Post)
  234. Desk Calendars for 1980 (The Chronicle of Higher Education
  235. Reviews of books by John Train, David Macaulay, Stephen Jones and Seon Manley and Gogo Lewis (New York Times Book Review)
  236. Reviews of books by William Golding, John Rechy, Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, Catherine Breslin (The Chronicle of Books and Arts)
  237. The Plan of St. Gall by Walter Horn and Ernest Born
  238. Reviews of books by Howard Thurman, Christopher Hallowell, Liane de Pougy, and Dan Ford (The New York Times Book Review
  239. O My America by Johanna Kaplan (The Chrobicle of Higher Education)
  240. Reviews of books by Harry Combs, Martin Caiden, Burroughs Mitchell, Edgar AllanPoe, and Quentin Crisp (New York Times Book Review)
  241. Reviews of books by James Houston, Wright Morris, William Maxwell, Susan Cheever, and T. Allan Broughton (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  242. The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (The Washington Star)
  243. The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard (The Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  244. Pictures from an Institution by Randall Jarrell (Change)
  245. Reviews of books by Carl Bridenbaugh, Nancy F. Cott, Elizabeth H. Pleck, Russ Kingman, and Molly Picon (The New York Times Book Review)
  246. Reviews of books by Margaret Atwood, Vance Bourjaily, and Johanna Kaplan (Books & Arts)
  247. The Salt Eaters by Toni Cade Bambara (The Chicago Tribune)
  248. Reviews of books by Michele Sarde, Suzanne Levine, Harriet Lyons, Joanne Edgar Ellen Sweet, and Mary Thom (The New York Times Book Review)
  249. Review of books by Anne Tyler, George V. Higgins, and Desmond Hogan (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  250. The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five by Doris Lessing (The Washington Star)
  251. The Delphinium Girl by Mark Smith (Chicago Tribune Book World)
  252. Freddy's Book by John Gardner (The Los Angeles Times)
  253. Reviews of books by Dervla Murphy, Robert A. Wilson, and Leon Prochnik (The New York Times Book Review)
  254. Innocent Blood by P.D. James (The Washington Star)
  255. Reviews of books by Eugene McCarthy, Floyd C. Watkins, John T. Hiers, and Graham Watson (The New York Times Book Review
  256. Havelock Ellis by Phyllis Grosskurth (The Washington Star)
  257. Reviews of books by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Richard Bausch, Jane Smiley, Herbert Mason, and Carolyn Doty (The Washington Post)
  258. Reviews of books by Diane Ackerman, Keith Sagar, Margaret Hope Bacon, and Julius Caesar (A. Wiseman, translator) (The New York Times Book Review
  259. Witnesses by Marcy Heidish (The Washington Star)
  260. Reviews of books by Margaret Mead, Rhoda Metraux, Ruth Gordon, Nan Bishop, Sarah Hamilton, Clare Bowman, and Leonard Yanow (The New York Times Book Review)
  261. Reviews of books by Leonard Wolf, Peter Dreyer, Sandra Hayward Albertson, and Martha and Morton Fried (The New York Times Book Review)
  262. Reviews of books by J. H. Plumb, Daphne du Maurier, Gabrielle Brown, Lawrence Ferlinghetti (The New York Times Book Review)
  263. Middle Ground by Margaret Drabble (The Washington Star)
  264. Loon Lake by E. L. Doctorow (The Los Angeles Times)
  265. Reviews of books by Peter Townsend, Jessamyn West, and Louise Bernikow (The New York Times Book Review)
  266. Hearts by Hilma Wolitzer (The Washington Post)
  267. Fifty Stories by Kaye Boyle (The Washington Star)
  268. Reviews of books by Robert Phelps, Janet Sternburg, Virginia M. Kouidis, and John D. Margolis (The New York Times Book Review)
  269. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting by Milan Kundera (The Chicago Tribune)
  270. Rites of Passage by William Golding (The Washington Star)
  271. Reviews of books by Roger A. Bruns, Hunter Davies, and Peter Gdowski (The New York Times Book Review)
  272. Smokestack Lightning by John Eskow (The Nation)
  273. Ways to Escape by Graham Greene (The Los Angeles Times Book Review)
  274. Other People's Worlds by William Trevor (The Washington Star)
  275. Reviews of books by Richard Hauer Costa and John Lehmann (The New York Times Book Review)
  276. The White Hotel by D. M. Thomas (The Washington Star)
  277. The Cat and the King by Louis Auchincloss (The New York Times Book Review)
  278. Her Side of It by Thomas Savage (Book World)
  279. The Mysteries of Amanda Cross (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  280. Sweetsir by Helen Yglesias (The Washington Star)
  281. Review of American Rose by Julia Markus; and A Romantic Education by Patricia Hampl (The Chicago Tribune)
  282. The World without End by Francine du Plessix Gray (Commonweal)
  283. The Source of Light by Reynolds Price (The Los Angeles Times)
  284. Fireworks by Angela Carter (The Washington Star)
  285. Played Out: The Jean Seberg Story by David Richards (The Washington Star)
  286. Angel of Flight by Joyce Carol Oates (The Los Angeles Times)
  287. Shannon by Gordon Parks (The Los Angeles Times)
  288. Saving Grace by Celia Gittelson (Commonweal)
  289. Braided Lives by Marge Piercy (The Washington Post)
  290. Levitation: Five Fictions by Cynthia Ozick (The Washington Post)
  291. The Annotated Huckleberry Finn, edited by Michael Hearn (The Washington Post)
  292. Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee (The Los Angeles Times)
  293. Worldy Goods by Michael Korda (The Chicago Tribune)
  294. Sassafras, Cypress and Indigo by Ntozake Shange (The Washington Post)
  295. Autumn, A. G. Mojtaba (The Chicago Tribune)
  296. A Coin in Nine Hands by Marguerite Yourcenar (The Los Angeles Times)
  297. Grace Abounding by Maureen Howard (Book World)
  298. Review of books by Willa Cather (The Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress)
  299. Reviews of Old Devotions by Ursula Perrin; and Crossroads by Mary Morris (The Chicago Tribune)
  300. The American Novel and the Way We Live by John W. Aldridge (The Washington Post)
  301. Reviews of books by Barbara Mercer, Dyan Sheldon, and Jane Somers (The Washington Post
  302. No Longer Is the Story All. Reviews of authors Bobbie Ann Mason, Barbara L. Greenberg, and Katrina Loeser (The Georgia Review)
  303. Reviews of books by Jamaica Kincaid and Janet Kauffman (Book World)
  304. Reviews of books by William Wharton, Richard Sennett, Eudora Welty, Jean Rhys, Susan Kenney, Alice Adams, and Alison Lurie
  305. Miscellaneous reviews: The Years of Ordeal by Joseph Frank; A Curious Street by Desmond Hogan; Unto This Hour by Tom Wicker; The MacNeil-Lehrer Broadcasts; and Christmas issue of Book World
  306. Reviews of What She Told Him by Carolyn Doty (Los Angeles Times); Bright River Trilogy by Annie Greene (Los Angeles Times); The Finishing School by Gail Godwin (Washington Weekly); The Lover by Marguerite Duras (The Chicago Tribune); Last Letters from Hav
  307. Reviews of The Craft Apprentice by W. J. Rorabaugh (Book World; A Father's Words by Richard Stern (The Chicago Tribune); De Beauvoir's Life: A Text of Liberation (Los Angeles Times); Dessa Rose by Shirely Anne Williams; (Book World); The Handmaid's Tale b
  308. Reviews of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice by Sharon O'Brien (The Chicago Tribune, etc.); Spillville by Patricia Hampl (Hungary Mind Review); A Sport of Nature by Nadine Gordimer (The Chicago Tribune); The Birthmark by Dorothea Straus (The New York Times
  309. Reviews of Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner (The New York Times Book Review; The Madwoman's Underclothes by Germaine Greer (The Chicago Tribune); Memory Board by Jane Rule (The Advocate)
  310. Reviews of Makeba: My Story by Miriam Makeba (The Chicago Tribune); The Memoirs of Ethel Smyth (The Washington Post); The Wind Blows Away Our Words by Doris Lessing (The Chicago Tribune); Not That Sort of Girl (and other books) by Mary Wesley (The Washing
  311. Reviews of Virginia Woolf by Louise DeSalvo; Who Killed Virginia Woolf by Alma Bond (Lambda Rising); The End of Tragedy by Rachel Ingalls (The Chicago Tribune); Lost in the City of Light by Richard de Combray (The Washington Post); Charley Bland by Mary L
  312. Reviews of Willa Cather: Double Lives by Hermione Lee (The Village Voice); article Little Closet on the Prairie (The Village Voice); The World Is My Home by James A. Michener (New York Times Book Review); Cold Times by Elizabeth Jordan Moore (The Washingt
  313. Reviews of Long Way from Home by Frederich Busch (The Chicago Tribune); The Fouintain of Age by Betty Friedan (The Boston Globe); Sarah Orne Jewett by Elizabeth Silverthorne (New York Times Book Review); Temple by George Dennison (New York Times Book Revi
  314. Reviews of Big As Life by Maureen Howard (The Washington Post); A Murder, A Mystery, and a Marriage, and The Annotated Huckleberry Finn by Michael Hearn (The Washington Post); Some Girls by Kristin McCloy (The Washington Post); Time's Power by Adrienne Ri
  315. Fine Print, A Review for the Arts of the Book
  316. National Public Radio, A-Y
  317. National Public Radio, 1982-1988