Michael Mewshaw
Articles by Michael Mewshaw
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sep 30, 1975 — By Michael Mewshaw
Can college athletics survive? Can short stories?
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.
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.
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