Book Review
Autumn 1940
The Myth of Sainthood: a review of The Star of Satan by Georges Bernanos
The Star of Satan by George Bernanos. Macmillan. $2.50 Periodically the stream of French literature bursts its banks, casts off all moral fetters including Catholicism, and swings violently to the […]
Special Anniversary Feature: Excerpts from the War Years
Winter 1989
Death of a Thinker: A Note on the French Novel 1925-40
From the Summer 1941 issue. 1. I Am Alone In August, 1925, in the village of Hillion on the North coast of Brittany, a man named Georges Palante shot himself […]
Fiction
Spring 1955
The Head in the Parlor
It was seeing Jack Pryden that afternoon, after so many years, that gave me the idea of going to see old Baldur Blake, the sculptor. I didn’t know why. I […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1952
G. G. Belli: Roman Poet
Giuseppe Gioacchino Belli, 1791-1863; member of various academies and author of some mediocre verse in literary Italian; known for a series of over two thousand sonnets in popular Roman speech, […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1950
Hadrian’s Villa
To F. E. B. Animula, vagula, blandula You walk up the lovely cypress alleys, planted by the 18th Century owner of the place, whose life, one imagines, must have […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1946
Existentialist Fiction
The Stranger by Albert Camus. Knopf. $2.00. Whatever its interest to professional philosophers—and I am not equipped to say if it has any—Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, as expounded in […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1941
Death of a Thinker: A Note on the French Novel 1925-40
1. I Am Alone In August, 1925, in the village of Hillion on the North coast of Brittany, a man named Georges Palante shot himself in the head with a […]
Fiction
Summer 1940
The Ball
She ran up the long steps eagerly. There was a ball tonight, the chandelier in the lobby blared light like a trumpet through the great open door and sent long […]