Nonfiction
Autumn 1965
Wonderland Revisited
In the twentieth century’s commemoration of the nineteenth, we have reached the centennial of Alice. Not uncharacteristically, the date has been somewhat blurred. The author, whose fussiness has endeared him […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1951
Observations on the Style of Ernest Hemingway
“The most important author living today, the outstanding author since the death of Shakespeare,” is Ernest Hemingway. So we have lately been assured by John O’Hara in the New York […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1950
An Explication of the Player’s Speech¹
(Hamlet, II, ii, 472-541) 1 The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, 2 Black as his purpose, did the night resemble 3 When he lay couched in the ominous horse, […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1948
Flaubert: Portrait of the Artist as a Saint (Reconsiderations IX)
“I have always put myself in what I have written. In place of Saint-Antoine, for example, it is I who am there; the Temptation has been for me and not […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1946
Poet on a Pedestal
Aragon: Poet Of The French Resistance edited by Hannah Josephson and Malcolm Cowley. Duell, Sloan, and Pierce. $2.00 A tribute to a brave man and a brilliant writer from his […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1939
New Irish Stew
Finnegan’s Wake. By James Joyce. The Viking Press. $5.00 A generation ago J. M. Synge pointed out that writers had been content for too long too make a mutually exclusive […]