Poetry
Winter 1955
Winter Landscape, Tien Shan
As in your dream, over the glittering gaudy ranges, Your shadow fleeter, death or glory, than your fear, Behold the origin and end of all romance, The hero’s paradise where […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1946
Escape to Reality
Mr. Ransom’s remarks on my program for universal salvation, as outlined in the last section of the Speculation, were acute and just, and I ought to have known something everybody […]
Speculation
Autumn 1945
The Religious Poetry of Robert Penn Warren
It rots her sleep—Jenny is one of those who nip like a bird and void like an ox—the poor and lightly damned! That can be a torture also. —Djuna Barnes, […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1943
Images with Abstract Titles
Paul Klee: Paintings, Watercolors, 1913 to 1939 edited by Karl Nierendorf. Oxford. $8.00 These are 67 reproductions, two in color, the best selection out, with pleasant reminiscences by Mr. Nierendorf, […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1943
Lady Flat on Her Back
The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy. Simon and Schuster. $2.50. The author says her “novel in six parts” is about “a missing object … the ordinary, indispensable self that has somehow […]
Fiction
Spring 1942
Give Me Time
In 1935 my brother was the age that I am now, and I suppose I was like other little brothers, but I don’t remember that my brother ever had a […]