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Josephine Herbst

Book Reviews

Autumn 1965

Moralist’s Progress

By Josephine Herbst

Part of the Truth: An Autobiography by Granville Hicks. Harcourt, Brace and World, $5.95. Granville Hicks’s Autobiography is more about the small town and its function in American life than […]

Book Reviews

Spring 1965

Only the Best

By Josephine Herbst

Scofield Thayer and the Dial: An Illustrated History by Nicholas Joost. Southern Illinois University Press, $15.00.  For the first time, we are give a full-length account of The Dial during […]

Nonfiction

Autumn 1961

Nathanael West

By Josephine Herbst

Four short novels, a play, a few random stories, and a handful of scenarios for Hollywood comprise the totality of the work of Nathanael West. The novels were published within […]