NEW LISTINGS
The Muckrakers,
Bernard Schlink Short Stories, and
Fighting Homosexuality in Oregon

REVIEWS
Of Two Minds
"The assumption seemed to be
that if a psychiatrist could be everywhere,
he would be able to solve all social ills.
This was not the psychoanalysis of devastated Europe
but a bright, shiny intellectual appliance,
an automated floor buffer
for messy psyches."

An Ocean to Cross
"I suspect that what they did around Year Five
in their new disability was to come to an agreement.
The unspoken agreement was that they would kill themselves.
They didn't phrase it that way;
they didn't have to."

Hiking Through American Deserts
"After I got through with this one,
I had closed and locked most of the doors. I called up
my travel agent to tell her I wanted to go off to the desert,
but to a safe one. Like Algeria, Iraq, or Afghanistan."

Great Reviews of the Past
The Inside Story of USA Today
Part I
"The purpose of this review is not to defame
social workers, HEW bureaucrats, teachers, television station owners,
fundamentalist ministers, and the other ne'er-do-wells who feed off
the carcasses of the poor and untutored."
Part II
"Whenever they trundle out the lachrymal discharges
of the leading heavy, it's probably time to man the bilges,
especially when we know that he is not necessarily
riding away into the sunset after a job well done,
but more likely tucking his $100,000,000 in options
in the trunk of his Lamborghini and driving off
into the Poconos."

BRIEF REVIEWS
Haitian Slaves Known As Restavecs,
How to Learn Magic in Calcutta, and
Hurricanes in Cuba