Nonfiction
Winter 1955
Dostoevsky: The Politics of Salvation
In nineteenth century Russia the usual categories of discourse tend to break down. Politics, religion, literature, philosophy—these do not fall into neat departments of the mind. Pressed together by the […]
Joseph Conrad
Winter 1954
Joseph Conrad III: The Political Novels (Continued)
In Under Western Eyes Conrad’s recommendation to charity is heeded on occasion, in The Secret Agent hardly at all. The secret agent is Mr. Verloc, employed by the Czarist embassy […]
Joseph Conrad
Autumn 1953
Order and Anarchy: The Political Novels
By temper and discipline Joseph Conrad was hostile to the life of politics. He could not identify with a cause or idea, in the manner of Dostoevsky; he did not […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1952
Sensibility Troubles
The Season’s Difference by Frederick Buechner. Knopf. $3.50 The Catherine Wheel by Jean Stafford. Harcourt. $3.00 The miracle in Mr. Buechner’s book is meant to rout the complacencies of […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1951
The Spell of Nada
After the Lost Generation: A Critical Study of the Writers of Two Wars by John Aldridge. McGraw-Hill. $3.75. Mr. John Aldridge comes to us as a critical spokesman for the […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1951
Sherwood Anderson: An American as Artist
“For all my egotism,” wrote Sherwood Anderson at the end of his life, “I know I am but a minor figure.” This self-estimate is both accurate and sincere: it comes, […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1949
The Cost of Distraction
The Collected Essays Of John Peale Bishop edited, and with an Introduction by, Edmund Wilson. Scribners. $4.50 Of A. E. Housman, John Peale Bishop wrote: “What Housman told the reader […]