Book Reviews
Winter 1961
Worth a Guilty Conscience
The Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth. Doubleday and Company, $7.50. If the Review were a learned journal, and if your reviewer were a scholar, The Sot-Weed Factor would occasion a […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1955
An Essay on Robinson’s Reading
Edwin Arlington Robinson: The Literary Background Of A Traditional Poet by Edwin S. Fussell. University of California Press. $3.50. Robinson’s first reviewers found him displeasingly unorthodox and unpoetically difficult. Twenty […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1950
Novels of the Nebulous Self
The Sheltering Sky by Paul Boules, New Directions, $2.75. A Long Day’s Dying by Frederick Buechner, Knopf, $3.00. Face of a Hero by Louis Falstein, Harcourt, $3.00. The Short Cut […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1950
Lives Relevant and Irrelevant
Jane Austen by Elizabeth Jenkins. Pellegrini and Cudahy. $4.00. The Last Attachment: The Story of Byron and Teresa Guiccioli by Iris Origo. Scribner’s. $5.00. John Greenleaf Whittier by John A. […]