Book Reviews

Was the great playwright a lone genius, or simply an important part of a brilliant team?

WHAT THE BEST COLLEGE TEACHERS DO. ...

By Robert McCrurn. Norton. 530 pp. $27.95

LOOKING FOR LONGLEAF:
The Fall and Rise of an
American Forest.
By Lawrence S. Earley

Phyllis Rose on the art of the essay

ATHENS:
A History, from Ancient
Ideal to Modern City.
By Robin Waterfield. Basic.

KAFKA:
A Biography.
By Nicholas Murray.

NEW POLITICAL RELIGIONS,
or An Analysis of Modern Terrorism.
By Barry Cooper

THE NUREMBERG INTERVIEWS:
An American Psychiatrist’s
Conversations with the
Defendants and Witnesses.
By Leon Goldensohn

FAT MAN FED UP:
How American Politics Went Bad.
By Jack Germond.

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