Nonfiction
Summer 1953
Georges Rouault: As Seen in the Retrospective Exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art at New York
Georges Rouault has long been recognized as the foremost religious painter of his time. What we know of his early life, of his writings, of his deepest attachments, bespeaks the […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1952
Albert Camus
Some ten years ago, in an essay1 remarkable for its generosity and perception, Sartre analysed Camus L’Etranger in the light of Le Mythe de Sisyphe, a book of philosophical essays […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1952
Art Notes from Paris
The Hôtel Drouot I have been harboring some rough notes which I now offer to any young man in search of a real problem for a dissertation. Subject: the transformation […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1951
Burke, Burke, the Lurk
A Rhetoric of Motives by Kenneth Burke. Prentice Hall. $5.00. I have often wondered at the intemperate reactions to Mr. Kenneth Burke’s work. A Rhetoric of Motives, to cite the […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1950
The Frankfurter and the Hotel
Down and Out In Paris And London by George Orwell. Harcourt, Brace. $2.75. Burmese Days by George Orwell. Harcourt, Brace. $3.00. Coming Up For Air by George Orwell. Harcourt, Brace. […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1950
Malraux’s Aesthetic
Undoubtedly there will be a great deal of critical effort exercised in assimilating this extraordinary book to André Malraux’s previous writing and to his career. It need only be said […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1955
Art Letter
Museum and Anti-Museum The way in which the brilliant conceit of a writer can dominate discussion was well illustrated this past year by the endless talk about the theory of […]