Nonfiction
Winter 1967
The Writer and the Human Condition
One way out of the barren scientific world, Max Eastman wrote, “is to declare the parallel and equal rights of poetry.” Not only has the poet or artist a right […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Spring 1965
The Angry Young Men Revisited
It is ten years since the angry wave blew in on us in Britain, at least if we date it from Lucky Jim; rather less if we are thinking of […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1965
A Conversation with T. S. Eliot
I have always been interested in the great and lively sweep of T. S. Eliot’s ideas and interests, and usually take the opportunity to discuss them with him on the […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1964
The Spire That Stayed out in the Cold
The Spire by William Golding. Harcourt, Brace and World. $3.95. Salisbury Cathedral’s spire soars 404 feet above the water-meadows of the River Avon. Allen’s Great Cathedrals tells us that, from […]