Book Reviews

CURT RICHTER:
A Life in the
Laboratory.
By Jay Schulkin.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. 187 pp. $49.95

James Gilbert on an illusory Utopia

THE LIFE OF DAVID.
By Robert Pinsky.
Schocken. 209 pp. $19.95

THE PRISON ANGEL:
Mother Antonia’s Journey From
Beverly Hills
to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail.
By Mary Jordan and Kevin Sullivan.
Penguin. 237 pp. $24.95

Martin Walker on Britain's high point

David M. Oshinsky on America's recent past

Richard Schickel on Stepin Fetchit

Graphic art from the heyday of newspapers.

The Irish immigrant experience.

Pages