John Blades

Polish-born poet Zbigniew Herbert, a Nazi Resistance fighter during World War II, and historian Francois Furet, an authority on the French Revolution who teaches in the University of Chicago's Committee...

Iowa may be the land of "Moo," as Jane Smiley whimsically suggested in her recent satire of that title, but the state is clearly fertile soil for more than ground...

Martin Amis came to the table wih a clear psychological edge, which he reinforced with a surly glance across the lush green felt. In trans-Atlantic snooker circles, he has carved...

Back in the era when a movie producer was still a mogul, a Darryl F. Zanuck, Jack L. Warner or David O. Selznick would trumpet a film recycling of an...

Tempo's Aug. 23 report on the vogue for small books suggested that it may have bottomed out with such pygmy specimens as Robert James Waller's "The Bridges of Madison County"...

By E.L. Doctorow's optimistic timetable, Booknet should have been on the nation's cable systems this summer, bringing viewers 24 hours of news about books and authors, conversations, readings, workshops and...

With a bottle of champagne, George Bullwinkel and his partners just toasted the third anniversary of their law firm, which bears no resemblance to "The Firm," the labyrinthine bureaucracy depicted...

During the last 25 years, American Indian fiction has become a growth industry-a booming one in the estimation of many critics and scholars. In addition to Thomas King (see accompanying...

For someone who had just lost nearly $71.3 million in court, Jerome Lemelson said he was holding up "incredibly well. It was a bitter pill, I admit, but I'm not...

Taking inventory of his forthcoming books, even the most avaricious publisher could savor the prospects of a lineup that includes a JFK-assassination work titled ''Covering the Body''; a portrait of...