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… late. It could be interpreted as a sign of the intellectual compromises any author must make who would reach a popular audience. It could be seen as evidence of the inevitable lag … of contingency —the recognition that at numerous critical points during the war things might have gone altogether …

… blood. In Holland, they bloom everywhere, behind colonials, across pools of wheat, near prints of wolves— in 1635, … the bulbs deeper, they might bloom longer. But mostly they die each year. They forget how to turn away from shade. …

… to Be Alone is a collection of Jonathan Franzen’s essays commenting on contemporary values, manners, tastes, customs and morals. His assessments are often negative, conveying the … broad range of subjects, some personal, others more general commentaries. Franzen can turn to almost any subject, …

… out of the window every time the train stopped, raising false hopes in the hearts of the Indian women, who ran along … it horrible, the things they eat and drink? I have just come back,” he said, “from God’s country,” which we are to … He has old fashioned tastes for drink, for gambling, for ladies of the theater; he rides always at a tearing run, …

… Russia Then and Now. By Freda Utley. New York: The John Day Company. $2.75. Reason, Social Myths, and Democracy. By … invasion of Finland, the Soviet-Nazi pact, the Moscow trials, the liquidation of the Kulaks, the hounding of … wrecked it. His “Capital” attracted little attention. He died a defeated man. What triumphed long after his death was …