Smart, lively essays on 43 poems, meant to be popular, reserved as to ego.

Seven years ago, Mr. Starr wrote a lively essay for a sober city planning document called "Los Angeles 2000 - A City for the Future."

Paglia anthologizes 43 short works in verse, from Shakespeare to Joni Mitchell, and follows each with a smart, lively essay.

Smart, lively essays on 43 poems, written about them, not about her.

Tonight at 10, Mr. Lee contributes a lively and pointed essay to the HBO quarterly magazine "Real Sports With Bryant Gumbel."

Smart, lively essays on 43 poems, written without ego for a popular audience.

There's a lively essay on the filming of "Robocop 2" and our eerily detached fascination with the "Robocop" films' bloody-minded bionic charm.

In a series of lively essays, each of which can stand by itself, he raises simple but unsettling questions about those media that we either take for granted or soon will.

(He also contributed a lively introductory essay.)

But as he shows in these tidy, lively and imaginative essays, nothing is certain in the shadow world of spies and betrayals, not even the truth.