Postwar Japanese literature has been characterized by the emergence of a large number of woman writers as major figures in the literary establishment. Among these ba Minako occupies a prominent position. Since winning the 1967 Akutagawa Prize for her...

It [the first edition of Leaves of Grass] is very close to the primitive magma. It has the appearance of a flow of lava which nothing could stop and which has remained formless. --Roger Asselineau [Yecao (Weeds) is] genuine poetry in...

'Oba Oba '93," the Brazilian dance and music extravaganza, is a spectacle of feathers and exotica, of pounding drums and bronze bombshells with sculptured bodies and fixed smiles. It is the Brazil of MGM musicals rather than the desperately poor, violent country of...