Steven Millhauser, one of the most original novelists to emerge in the 1970s, was born on 3 August 1943 in New York and grew up in Connecticut where his father, Milton Millhauser, was an English professor at the University of Bridgeport. Millhauser recei...

Steven Millhauser. Poseidon, 1993. 239 pp. $21.00. This collection of three novellas confirms my belief in the extraordinary talent--genius?--of Millhauser. Although I have reviewed In the Penny Arcade, From the Realm of Morpheus, and The Barnum Museum in these pages, I must...

PART of Afghanistan has achieved a sort of peace. This is the bit in the north-east run by Ahmad Shah Massoud. In the war against the Afghan government and its Soviet backers, Mr Massoud has been the most successful of the guerrilla commanders....

When Sen. Patrick Leahy wants privacy, he heads down one of the Capitol's marbled hallways and through a locked door next to a hulking, white marble statue. Then, through another locked door, into a hideaway secure from the bustle outside.Many of the 100 senators have...