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Irving Malin

Book Reviews

Winter 1966

The Nightclerk

By Irving Malin

The Nightclerk by Stephen Schneck. Grove Press, $4.95.   This is the winner of the $10,000 Formentor Novel Prize. It joins the company of such other “illustrious” winners as Summer […]

Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section

Summer 1965

The Player King

By Irving Malin

The Player King by Earl Rovit. Harcourt, Brace and World, $5.95. Mr. Rovit uses an epigraph from Saint-Sinion: “He told us the most troublesome thing was that Monsieur le Prince […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1963

Occasions for Loving

By Irving Malin

Occasion For Loving by Nadine Gordimer. The Viking Press, $5.00. A Fortune In Dimes by Mary Carter. Atlantic-Little, Brown, $4.95. The Centaur by John Updike. Alfred A. Knopf, $4.00. Children […]