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Timebends: A Life, by Arthur Miller (Grove Press, 614 pp., $24.95)

In this superb autobiography, Miller bends chronology, pursues the themes of his life by moving back and forth in time, “and instead of one incident in one time-frame succeeding another, displays past and present concurrently, with neither one ever coming to a stop.” He entered manhood in the 1930s and was profoundly influenced by the events of that decade: the rise of fascism, the suffering in the Depression, and the Spanish Civil War. He believes art should be moral

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Jeffrey Meyers

Mr. Meyers is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of John Huston: Courage and Art.

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Timebends: A Life, by Arthur Miller (Grove Press, 614 pp., $24.95)

In this superb autobiography, Miller bends chronology, pursues the themes of his life by moving back and forth in time, “and instead of one incident in one time-frame succeeding another, displays past and present concurrently, with neither one ever coming to a stop.” He entered manhood in the 1930s and was profoundly influenced by the events of that decade: the rise of fascism, the suffering in the Depression, and the Spanish Civil War. He believes art should be moral