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Doris Lessing • 72 Items / 41 Books, 28 Articles, 2 Reviews, 1 Poem
Briefing for a Descent into Hell (1971)
by Doris Lessing
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Published Reviews
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    Dazzle-Dust (Review)
    Jeffrey Meyers
    Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing
    1. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    Commonweal, May 7, 1971, p. 220
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    Observation Ward (Review)
    Michael Thorpe
    Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing
    1. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    Encounter, September 1971, p. 80
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    And Now, Inner Space Fiction (Review)
    Robin MacNaughton
    Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing
    1. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    The Nation, December 27, 1971, p. 699
  4. Book Reviews
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    The Personal Matter of Doris Lessing (Review)
    Gail Godwin
    Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing
    1. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    The North American Review (New), Summer 1971, pp. 66-69
  5. Books
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    Toward a More Human World (Review)
    Benjamin DeMott
    Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing
    1. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    The Saturday Review, March 13, 1971, pp. 25-26
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    The Future in Books (2 Reviews)
    Alexei Panshin
    Briefing for a Descent into Hell, by Doris Lessing
    1. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    2. The Diffusion of Sufi Ideas in the West by Leonard Lewin
    Amazing Science Fiction Stories, June 1973, pp. 104-105
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    Watchman, What of the Night? (2 Reviews)
    Roger Sale
    Of a Fire on the Moon, by Norman Mailer
    1. Of a Fire on the Moon by Norman Mailer
    2. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    The New York Review of Books, May 6, 1971, pp. 13-16
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    "The End of the World Is Coming (3 Reviews)
    Elizabeth Janeway
    Love in the Ruins, by Walker Percy
    1. Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
    2. Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
    3. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    The Atlantic Monthly, August 1971, pp. 87-89
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    Stranger than Truth (20 Reviews)
    William H. Pritchard
    Touching, by Gwen Davis
    1. Touching by Gwen Davis
    2. Feeling It by L.H. Whittemore
    3. Dealing; or, The Berkeley-to-Boston Forty-Brick Lost-Bag Blues by Michael Douglas
    4. Dance the Eagle to Sleep by Marge Piercy
    5. Eisenhower, My Eisenhower by Jerome Charyn
    6. The Death and Life of Harry Goth by D. Keith Mano
    7. Farragan's Retreat by Tom McHale
    8. Cony-Catching by Kirby Farrell
    9. The Bushwacked Piano by Thomas McGuane
    10. The Dick Gibson Show by Stanley Elkin
    11. Enchantment by Linda Grace Hoyer
    12. The Abortion by Richard Brautigan
    13. The Merry Merry Month of May by James Jones
    14. Lion Country by Frederick Buechner
    15. Babi Yar by Anatoly Kuznetsov
    16. For the Good of the Cause by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
    17. Fireflies by Shiva Naipaul
    18. Nightlines by John McGahern
    19. MF by Anthony Burgess
    20. Briefing for a Descent into Hell by Doris Lessing
    The Hudson Review, Summer 1971, pp. 355-368