Michael Mewshaw
Stories
Two well-known authors prove that knowing the subject matter doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good book.
Mar 1975
Two books on why you can’t go home again.
Apr 1975
Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.
May 1975
Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.
Aug 1975
Donald Barthelme wrote a novel about you and it’s so bad.
Jan 1976
East Texas author William Goyen was more at home in the Fifties.
Feb 1976
T for Texas, T for Tennessee Williams’ autobiography, and T for terrible.
Mar 1976
Spiritual desolation in Crawford’s The Backslider; spiritual warfare in Naipaul’s Guerrillas.
Apr 1976
Peter Passel and Rollo May help those who help themselves.
May 1976