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Gerald Howard

By Gerald Howard 5/16/05 12:00am

The Company He Kept: Novelist Flirts With Espionage

My Life in CIA: A Chronicle of 1973, by Harry Mathews. Dalkey Archive Press, 203 pages, $13.95.

A few weeks ago, the arts section of The New York Times turned its solemn eye on literary fiction. On Monday, the fine novelist and short-story writer Steve Stern got conscripted as the surely reluctant poster boy for Read More

By Gerald Howard 9/29/03 12:00am

One Generation, Two Stories: On Campus and In Country

They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967, by David Maraniss. Simon and Schuster, 572 pages, $29.95.

Toward the climax of The Armies of the Night , Norman Mailer delivers one of his finest bolts of lightning-like illumination, his intuition of the immense psychological distance between the demonstrators and the soldiers Read More