“Prime Green” was the color of the light rising from the horizon at Manzanillo Bay, flashing before Robert Stone in the autumn of 1966. Mr. Stone had come to Mexico for Esquire. His assignment was to find his friend Ken Kesey, who had become a fugitive from the drug police in San Francisco. Kesey was Read More
Robert Stone is coming to town to read, and I’m feeling a little apprehensive already. If Auden was the avatar of the previous Age of Anxiety, is not Robert Stone the poet of the current Age of Dread? While Mr. Stone’s seductively sinister novels ( Dog Soldiers , Children of Light , Damascus Gate , Read More
Damascus Gate , by Robert Stone. Houghton Mifflin, 500 pages, $26.
A few pages into Damascus Gate , you may find yourself wondering why it took Robert Stone so long to set a novel in Israel. Often, in the past, Mr. Stone has seemed rather like the literary reincarnation of some early Church Father Read More
