By Minna Proctor 1/18/99 12:00am

Haute Pulp in the Big City: The Tarantino Factor

Blood Acre , by Peter Landesman. Viking, 260 pages, $23.95.

The Narrowback , by Michael Ledwidge. Atlantic Monthly Press, 304 pages, $24.

The new esthetic in high pulp: Mrs. Dalloway meets NYPD Blue . For the cross-over audience, those haute folk who sneak a James M. Cain between their Don DeLillo and Ernest Hemingway; Read More

By Terry Golway 7/27/98 12:00am

Conor Cruise O’Brien-The Voice of Reason?

The fire that consumed three Catholic boys in Northern Ireland on July 12 was the same fire that took the lives of four black girls in an Alabama church more than 30 years ago. Hatred was its oxygen, bigotry its accelerant.

We Americans understand certain things about our society, so the Southern fire remains fixed Read More