Book Reviews
Autumn 1983
The World, the Text, and the Critic
The World, the Text, and the Critic by Edward W. Said. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1983. vi + 327 pages. $20.00. In the vacant lot behind my house groups […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1969
There Are Demons at the Bottom of the Garden
Collected Essays by Graham Greene. The Viking Press, $7.95. Graham Greene, like most professional writers, particularly among the English, has spent years of his literary life turning out brief, literate, […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1968
Making It Home
North Toward Home by Willie Morris. Houghton Mifflin Company, $5.95. Making It by Norman Podhoretz. Random House, $6.95. A first section of Willie Morris’ North toward Home appeared in […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ November 1967
Dressing Giraudoux for Market
Plays: Amphitryon, Intermezzo, Ondine by Jean Giraudoux. Translated by Roger Gellert. Oxford University Press, $5.75. When the APA production of Jean Giraudoux’s Judith opened in New York in 1965, my […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1963
Fathers, Sons, and All That
Before My Time by Niccolo Tucci. Simon and Schuster, $7.50. Strike The Father Dead by John Wain. St. Martin’s Press, $4.95. Stern by Bruce Jay Friedman. Simon and Schuster, $3.95. […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1961
Hofmannsthal without Strauss
Poems And Verse Plays by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Edited, with an introduction, by Michael Hamburger. Bollingen Series XXXIII, 2. (Pantheon Books), $6.00. At the turn of the century, when he […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1961
Dark Is the Color
The Games Of Night by Stig Dagerman. J. B. Lippincott Company. Cloth, $3.50. Paper, $1.65. The Dignity Of Night by Klaus Roehler. J. B. Lippincott Company. Cloth, $3.50. Paper, $1.65. […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1959
The Latest Eliot
The Elder Statesman by T. S. Eliot. Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. $3.75. In The Confidential Clerk, T. S. Eliot dressed his parable of identification and vocation, in the general […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1959
Theatre Letter
Going to the theatre this season has been rather like turning unfamiliar corners and coming on familiar scenes. It is not that there has been an absence of surprises, but […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1958
Theatre Letter I
Once again, there is a slightly second-hand look about the New York theatrical scene. At least, most of the plays that have drawn me to the theater this year are […]