HOW TO BE A MOVIE STAR; Elizabeth Taylor in Hollywood By William J. Mann
“How to Be a Movie Star” reads like a labor of immoderate love. Mann, who wrote the widely praised biography  Kate: The Woman who was Hepburn, insists time and again, on page after page, that his subject is broader and deeper than [...]
THE DISCOVERER
By Jan Kjaerstad
Jan Kjaerstad’s novel The Discoverer completes a trilogy about a Norwegian broadcaster named Jonas Wergeland, which is a relief. If someone hadn’t completed a trilogy about Jonas Wergeland, he might have had something to say about it. The maker of “Thinking Big,” a TV series about Norway’s most illustrious figures, like Ibsen [...]
THE BOOK OF GENESIS
Illustrated by R. Crumb
It is not in praise of the Creator that R. Crumb portrays him - in the splash page that begins his much-anticipated adaptation of Genesis in comic-book form - as Crumb sees his own father. He grew up in helpless terror of Charles Crumb Sr., a former Marine Corps [...]
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