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David R. Slavitt

Book Reviews

Winter 1970

A Horror Show

By David R. Slavitt

The Selling of the President 1968 by Joe McGinnis. Trident Press, $5.95. There is something fascinating and terrifying about any technical expertise when it is ungoverned by any ethical, philosophical […]

Poetry

Summer 1963

Ride the High Country

By David R. Slavitt

I. The long red underwear of Randolph Scott, the gold-rimmed spectacles of Joel McCrea, underscore age and through the reverend plot the old gunfighters ride for one more day. And […]

Poetry

Summer 1956

Warning

By David R. Slavitt

First beyond all song, or any note, was that terrible small silence in her lovely throat—and all along, the quiet potency for most fantastic song. Still, there lingers in Philomela’s […]