Book Reviews
Spring 1953
Stephen Crane as Symbolist
Stephen Crane, An Omnibus, selected and edited with critical introductions and notes by Robert Wooster Stallman. Knopf. $5.00. Since much of Stephen Crane’s work is hard to come by, any […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1951
A Farewell to Hemingway
Across the River and Into the Trees by Ernest Hemingway. Scribner’s. $3.00. It is not enough to say that Across the River and Into the Trees is a bad novel, […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1950
The Case against Pure Sensibility
Nothing by Henry Green. Viking. $3.00. The overevaluation of Henry Green in some of our literary circles is a typical American relapse into provincialism, an instance of our tendency to […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1949
The Love of Zombies
All Hallows’ Eve by Charles Williams. With an introduction by T. S. Eliot. Pellegrini & Cudahy. $2.75 Descent Into Hell by Charles Williams. Pellegrini & Cudahy. $2.75 I should define […]
Fiction
Autumn 1947
The Party
1. The Internal Question The party is said to be in its thirtieth year—but this is only a manner of speaking, a manner of reckoning, rather, which few people take […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1945
Stories with Infinite Interiors
The Facts of Life by Paul Goodman. Vanguard. $2.50. The tradition of “new writing” in America has too little strength to support public sympathy and too little weight to […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1945
Good Criticism with Polemical Intent
The League of Frightened Philistines by James T. Farrell. Vanguard. $2.50. The basic assumption that James T. Farrell makes in The League of Frightened Philistines would seem to be […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1949
Aesthetics without Experience
Insight And Outlook by Arthur Koestler. Macmillan. Having written superior journalism and middling fiction, Arthur Koestler comes to us now as something of a theoretical scientist and aesthetician with the […]
Fiction
Spring 1947
The Railroad
The years I spent in the control tower were the very best of my life. I look back at them, think of them constantly. It is as though what I […]
Fiction
Summer 1946
The New Egypt
The Great Event After centuries, or centuries of centuries, mankind had at last achieved immortality. This great event of our history—but it is ridiculous to speak of it as such, […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1946
Isherwood’s Master Theme
The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris and Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood. New Directions. $3.50. Prater Violet by Christopher Isherwood. Random House. $2.00. Isherwood’s greatest accomplishments are […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1946
Dry Watershed
Kenneth Burke’s criticism, from Permanence and Change to the present volume,1 has been moving toward greater generality in form while remaining more or less static in content. He has been […]