Making Books  

The Business of Books: How International Conglomerates Took Over Publishing and Changed the Way We Read by Andre Schiffrin Verso Books, 2000, 181 pp., $23 Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future by Jason EpsteinĀ  Norton, 20001, 188 pp., $21.95 …



Ambassador to a Private World  

Seeing Mary Plain: A Life of Mary McCarthy by Frances Kiernan Norton, 2000, 845 pp., $35 Partisans: Marriage, Politics, and Betrayal Among the New York Intellectuals by David Laskin Simon & Schuster, 2000, 319 pp., $26 Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting …