Sequels by Pearl K. Bell When John Updike published Rabbit, Run in 1960-though he was only twenty-eight, it was his fourth book and second novel-no…
Self-Seekers by Pearl K. Bell For the past two hundred years, ever since Rousseau began his Confessions with the presumptuous word "I," the expression of…
New Jewish Voices by Pearl K. Bell It is the character of our culture to be on perpetual alert for change, and so it is not surprising…
James Michener’s Docudramas by Pearl K. Bell James Michener's long and earnest novels, which can come to well over 800 pages, have not been found worthy of…
Games Writers Play by Pearl K. Bell Iris Murdoch has for many years been considered one of the major women novelists in the English-speaking world, along with…
The Real Avant-Garde by Pearl K. Bell Novels of protest-protest against oppression and injustice-have invariably taken the form of brutal realism, from a Zola to a Solzhenitsyn,…
Singing the Same Old Songs by Pearl K. Bell Joshua Then and Now is Mordecai Richler's eighth novel, but it so closely resembles his seventh, St. Urbain's Horseman, which…
Aging Novelists by Pearl K. Bell Old novelists never die, they merely repeat themselves or grow silent. A few noble exceptions -such indefatigable masters as Victor…
Marge Piercy and Ann Beattie by Pearl K. Bell Marge Piercy is a prolific novelist and poet, a one-time organizer for SDS, who has become a spokesman for radical…
A Remarkable First Novel by Pearl K. Bell The Nineteenth Elegy of John Donne, which provides Johanna Kaplan with the title of her remarkable first novel, O My…
Mailer: Settling for Less by Pearl K. Bell For some twenty years now, Norman Mailer has been promising the world a big fat novel about "the mysteries of…
Roth & Baldwin: Coming Home by Pearl K. Bell AT THE AGE of forty-six, Philip Roth has relented. He has written a short and touching novel, The Ghost
