The Statement by Brian Moore by Roger Kaplan A voluminous literature has accumulated on Vichy France and on the story of French collaboration with the Nazis during World…
Fragile Glory, by Richard Bernstein by Roger Kaplan Richard Bernstein, formerly the Paris bureau chief of the New York Times, where he is now national cultural correspondent, attempts…
The Black and the Red: Francois Mitterrand, The Story of an Ambition, by Catherine Nay by Roger Kaplan If Francois Mitterrand runs for a second seven-year term as President of France next year and wins, it will surprise…
Walter Laqueur at Sixty-Five by Roger Kaplan To commemorate his sixty-fifth birthday, there has just appeared a bibliography of the writings of Walter Laqueur, the prolific, erudite,…
Liberalism and Its Challengers, by Alonzo L. Hamby by Roger Kaplan Twice in a row, American voters have elected by large majorities the most conservative presidential candidate since Herbert Hoover.
Glitz, by Elmore Leonard; Briarpatch, by Ross Thomas by Roger Kaplan After eighteen novels written over the course of three decades, Elmore Leonard, who lives and writes in a suburb north…
Heller’s Last Gag by Roger Kaplan Joseph Heller is a writer whose Books are awaited and even long-awaited, which is a polite way of saying that…
