In her novel Swimming into Darkness, Gail Helgason exercises considerable artistic licence
in depicting Saskatchewan doctors' partial withdrawal of services in 1962. 1, 2 Although …

Nobody has a bad word to say about Alan Johnson—not something that can be said of
every former health secretary. He held the job for two years (2007-09), during which the …

Die. By giving away the conclusion in the title, Hibbert ruined the surprise ending. What fun
is that? Another gross violation of ethics occurred when Bart stuck various objects to his skin …

Thirty years ago, critics singled out Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman as a landmark play; it
broke with the conventions of classical tragedy in that its hero was an ordi-nary person …

Sir,--May I correct a slip made by Michael Beloff (February 1)? Just after observing that Rose
Heilbron is inaccurately described in the subtitle of her biography, he goes on to assert that …

American exceptionalism, and we miss the significance of a colonial writer best understood
as a representative of British culture. So affirms Robert Micklus in his study of the life and …

If Lillian Hellman had not finally succumbed in 1984 to the com-plex of medical problems
she'd fought for years, there is no way William Wright and all the legal and financial forces of …

608 THE NEW ENGLAND QUARTERLY the pulpit may either fall on deaf ears or soon be
forgotten. That being said, what Stout has done is greatly to be admired: he has created a …

For some, eighteenth-century America was no promised land. For Dr. Alexander Hamilton, it
was scarcely tolerable. Coping with what he found to be annoying and distressing aspects of …

Tt's amazinghow quicklyyou can read a book of 434 pages lwhen the characters are without
any depth or interest and improbability lurks beneath every twist and turn of a vapid plot …