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Book Reviews

Autumn 1985

The Blessed and the Forsaken

By Gary Davenport

The Infinite Passion of Expectation: Twenty-five Stories by Gina Berriault. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1982. 252 pages. $12.50. The Lights of Earth by Gina Berriault. San Francisco: North Point […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1984

The Word and the World

By Gary Davenport

Standing By Words: Essays by Wendell Berry. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1983. 214 pages. $10.50. The idea that the world is more an organism than a machine is so […]