Book Reviews

Alex Beam on the character of New England

James Morris on one of America's most significant waterways

A MAN WITH
NO TALENTS:
Memoirs of a Tokyo Day Laborer.
By Oyama Shiro. Translated by Edward Fowler.
Cornell Univ. Press.
139 pp. $21

Ann J. Loftin on a prickly playwright

Brian Hall on T. S. Eliot's poetry and love life

THE FUTURE WITHOUT A PAST:
The Humanities
in a Technological Society.
By John Paul Russo.
Univ. of Missouri Press. 313 pp. $39.95

CHINA’S RISE
IN ASIA:
Promises and Perils.
By Robert G. Sutter.
Rowman & Littlefield. 297 pp. $24.95

PROTECTING LIBERTY IN AN AGE OF TERROR.
By Philip B. Heymann and Juliette N. Kayyem.
MIT Press. 194 pp. $30

ON THE ICE:
An Intimate Portrait of Life at McMurdo Station, Antarctica.
By Gretchen Legler.
Milkweed Editions.
195 pp. $15.95

THE CUTTER
INCIDENT:
How America’s First Polio Vaccine Led
to the Growing Vaccine Crisis.
By  Paul A. Offit.
Yale Univ Press.
238 pp. $27.50

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