cover image The Secret Museum

The Secret Museum

Walter Kendrick. Penguin Books, $7.95 (30pp) ISBN 978-0-14-010947-4

Village Voice editor Kendrick (The Novel Machine) goes back to the erotic murals of ancient Pompeii and forward to the recent presidential commissions on pornography to demonstrate how public attitudes toward pornography and censorship have changed. PW noted that this is a ""well-researched, nontitillating study of the phenomenon.'' (April)