James Joyce
The Liar's Tale
Zeno’s Conscience By Italo Svevo translated by William Weaver (Everyman’s Library, 437 pp., $20) Emilio’s Carnival (Senilita) By Italo Svevo translated by Beth Archer Brombert with an introduction by Victor Brombert (Yale University Press, 233 pp., $14.95) A Life By Italo Svevo translated by Archibald Colquhoun (Pushkin Press, 411 pp., £10) Memoir of Italo Svevo By Livia Veneziani Svevo translated by Isabel Quigly (The Marlboro Press/ Northwestern University Press, 178 pp., $15.95) READ MORE >>
The Liar's Tale
Zeno’s Conscience By Italo Svevo translated by William Weaver (Everyman’s Library, 437 pp., $20) Emilio’s Carnival (Senilita) By Italo Svevo translated by Beth Archer Brombert with an introduction by Victor Brombert (Yale University Press, 233 pp., $14.95) A Life By Italo Svevo translated by Archibald Colquhoun (Pushkin Press, 411 pp., £10) Memoir of Italo Svevo By Livia Veneziani Svevo translated by Isabel Quigly READ MORE >>
Kabul Dispatch: Prep School
1. "The Mujahedin laid 260 anti-tank mines for Russian tanks. Out of that 180 mines exploded. Now find out how many mines are remaining." 2. "15 Mujahedin attacked 100 Communists from one side. 17 Mujahedin attacked from the other side. Out of 100 Communists, 14 were arrested and 72 were killed. Find out: a) how many Mujahedin were involved in the attack and b) how many infidels fled." READ MORE >>
Talk Talk
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, Volume 4; Se-Z edited by R, W, Burchfield (Oxford University Press, 1,454 pp., $150) The Story of English by Robert McCrum, William Cran, and Robert MacNeil (Elisabeth Sifton Books/Viking, 384 pp.,$24,95) American Talk: The Words and Ways of American Dialects by Robert Hendrlckson (Viking, 231 pp., $18.95) Take My Word For It READ MORE >>
The Vanity of "Vanity Fair"
Once upon a time—between September 1913 and February 1936—there was Vanity Fair. A quarter of a century after it folded, Cleveland Amory called it “America’s most memorable magazine,” and only a curmudgeon would quarrel with that accolade. It inspired an unusual fondness in both its contributors and its readers when it was alive, and amazingly its reputation still inspires much the same fondness in those who have never turned its pages. It is understandable that Condé Nast Publications Inc., the firm descended from the original publisher, should have been tempted to revive it. READ MORE >>
