Michael Mewshaw

Apr 30, 1977 — By Michael Mewshaw

What happens to a mercenary when all the fighting stops?

Apr 1, 1977 — By Michael Mewshaw

In their hearts, these conservative writers knew they were right. Now the rest of us know it too.

Mar 1, 1977 — By Michael Mewshaw

The Mexican pyramids are an open book compared to Peter Tompkins’s rambling account of them.

Feb 1, 1977 — By Michael Mewshaw

The Oranging of America is not about the Longhorn football team taking over the government, but Max Apple’­s book is only slightly less bizarre.

Jan 1, 1977 — By Michael Mewshaw

Being Watergate special prosecutor was hard; writing a book about it was harder.

Dec 1, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Turn a few new leaves this holiday season.

Nov 1, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake find the Limo scene semi-amusing.

Sep 30, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Domestic bliss has seen better days than it sees in Shelby Hearon’s new novel.

Aug 31, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Why the best years of our lives weren’t.

Jul 31, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's latest book "The Final Days" is just too much hocus-pocus.

Jun 30, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Start fooling around with Mother Earth and you end up getting accused of rape.

May 31, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

America and Texas: past and present.

Apr 30, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Peter Passel and Rollo May help those who help themselves.

Apr 1, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Spiritual desolation in Crawford’s The Backslider; spiritual warfare in Naipaul’s Guerrillas.

Mar 1, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

T for Texas, T for Tennessee Williams’ autobiography, and T for terrible.

Feb 1, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

East Texas author William Goyen was more at home in the Fifties.

Jan 1, 1976 — By Michael Mewshaw

Donald Barthelme wrote a novel about you and it’s so bad.

Dec 1, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

World War II the way it really was.

Nov 1, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Larry McMurtry brings his Texas odyssey to an end.

Sep 30, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Can college athletics survive? Can short stories?

Aug 31, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Does crime pay?

Jul 31, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Peter Matthiessen writes of men pursuing a dying profession and Philip Roth pursues his critics.

Jun 30, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Frederick Exley shows how to get too much of a good thing.

May 31, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Exploring the heavy price of Empire.

Apr 30, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Coupling takes many forms, as John Updike and Shelby Hearon can tell you.

Mar 31, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Two books on why you can’t go home again.

Feb 28, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw

Two well-known authors prove that knowing the subject matter doesn’t necessarily guarantee a good book.