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Autumn 1965

Wonderland Revisited

By Harry Levin

In the twentieth century’s commemoration of the nineteenth, we have reached the centennial of Alice. Not uncharacteristically, the date has been somewhat blurred. The author, whose fussiness has endeared him […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1946

Poet on a Pedestal

By Harry Levin

Aragon: Poet Of The French Resistance edited by Hannah Josephson and Malcolm Cowley. Duell, Sloan, and Pierce. $2.00 A tribute to a brave man and a brilliant writer from his […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1939

New Irish Stew

By Harry Levin

Finnegan’s Wake. By James Joyce. The Viking Press. $5.00 A generation ago J. M. Synge pointed out that writers had been content for too long too make a mutually exclusive […]