by Peter Wolf (Little-Brown, 335 pp., $30). In his elegant memoir of postwar Greenwich Village life, When Kafka Was the Rage, the literary critic Anatole Broyard wrote that “you could always find your ...

In 'Flower Blossom Lady,' a joyous flourish of flowers, rendered in lush, textured brushwork and bombastic, fauvist color meet the lady's soft, pale skin and profile, gently rendered in elegant line ...