Books, Arts & Manners: Random Notes

Left Over from October: Vladimir Lakshin, deputy editor of the “liberal” Soviet journal Novy Mir and now author of Solzhenitsyn, Tvardovsky, and Novy Mir (MIT, $12.50), takes strenuous issue with Solzhenitsyn’s portrait, in The Oak and the Calf, of the magazine’s late editor, the poet Tvardovsky. Lakshin’s own portrait of Solzhenitsyn depicts a greatly gifted artist but a badly flawed man. . . . Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen (Doubleday, $15.95) looks like a fascinating volume, the personal history of a sixty-year priesthood. The Archbishop died last year. . . . The American South: Four Seasons of the Land (Oxmoor, $29.95) is a gorgeous book, with superb photographs by William A. Bake and a lovely lyric text by James J. Kilpatrick. It is certainly one of the most beautiful and successfully executed volumes of its kind. . . . The Splendid Art of Opera: A Concise History (Methuen, $15), by Ethan Mordden, runs the historical gamut of opera from Orfeo to Sweeney Todd.

More November Titles: In Private Power: Multinational Corporations and the Survival of Our Planet (Morrow, $12.95) Axel Madsen offers the interesting revisionist argument that the survival of Spaceship Earth or whatever you want to call it depends upon the creation of giant companies. . . . Mark Harris’s Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck (Georgia, $9.95) is a biography originally intended to be the authorized life of the novelist. Bellow, however, was never amused by Harris, and will be even less amused by this unflattering portrait. . . . The subject of James Michener’s latest novel, The Covenant (Random House, $15.95), is two hundred years of South African history. For $35 you can buy an autographed, limited-edition, volume. . . . Indira Gandhi (Little, Brown, $15) is a biography by Dom Moraes, a poet, essayist, and former friend of the Indian Prime Minister. It is reported that Mrs. Gandhi refused to read the manuscript.

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Left Over from October: Vladimir Lakshin, deputy editor of the “liberal” Soviet journal Novy Mir and now author of Solzhenitsyn, Tvardovsky, and Novy Mir (MIT, $12.50), takes strenuous issue with Solzhenitsyn’s portrait, in The Oak and the Calf, of the magazine’s late editor, the poet Tvardovsky. Lakshin’s own portrait of Solzhenitsyn depicts a greatly gifted artist but a badly flawed man. . . . Treasure in Clay: The Autobiography of Fulton J. Sheen (Doubleday, $15.95) looks like a fascinating volume, the personal history of a sixty-year priesthood. The Archbishop died last year. . . . The American South: Four Seasons of the Land (Oxmoor, $29.95) is a gorgeous book, with superb photographs by William A. Bake and a lovely lyric text by James J. Kilpatrick. It is certainly one of the most beautiful and successfully executed volumes of its kind. . . . The Splendid Art of Opera: A Concise History (Methuen, $15), by Ethan Mordden, runs the historical gamut of opera from Orfeo to Sweeney Todd.

More November Titles: In Private Power: Multinational Corporations and the Survival of Our Planet (Morrow, $12.95) Axel Madsen offers the interesting revisionist argument that the survival of Spaceship Earth or whatever you want to call it depends upon the creation of giant companies. . . . Mark Harris’s Saul Bellow, Drumlin Woodchuck (Georgia, $9.95) is a biography originally intended to be the authorized life of the novelist. Bellow, however, was never amused by Harris, and will be even less amused by this unflattering portrait. . . . The subject of James Michener’s latest novel, The Covenant (Random House, $15.95), is two hundred years of South African history. For $35 you can buy an autographed, limited-edition, volume. . . . Indira Gandhi (Little, Brown, $15) is a biography by Dom Moraes, a poet, essayist, and former friend of the Indian Prime Minister. It is reported that Mrs. Gandhi refused to read the manuscript.