SOURCE: "What Makes the World Go Round," in Washington Post Book World, Vol. 25, July 23, 1995, p. 11.
[Stavans is a novelist and critic. In the following review, he examines Paz's treatment of love in The Double Flame, admiring its thematic breadth and depth.)
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