Book Reviews
Summer 1990
On the Cutting Edge
The Kenyon Review. 1939-1970: A Critical History by Marian Janssen. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989. 351 pages. $45.00. In its heyday during the 1940s and the early […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1983
The “Hound & Horn” Letters
The “Hound & Horn” Letters edited by Mitzi Berger Hamovitch. Athens, Ga.: The University of Georgia Press, 1982. 247 pages. $25.00. About twenty-five years or so ago I was privileged […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1969
Genial Scholar
Regionalism and Beyond: Essays of Randall Stewart edited by George Core. Vanderbilt University Press, $6.95. There are various reasons for publishing collections of scholarly essays, and one of the best […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ November 1966
Wild about Harry
Refractions: Essays in Comparative Literature by Harry Levin. Oxford University Press, $7.50. Harry Levin is one of the ablest and most consistently entertaining practitioners of literary criticism in business today. […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1966
The Curious Death of the Novel: Or, What to Do about Tired Literary Critics
I. FABLE Once upon a time there was a group of very talented writers known as Modern Novelists, who wrote books known as Modern Novels. The writers known as Modern […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1964
Well Worth the Saying
Poetry And Fiction: Essays by Howard Nemerov. Rutgers University Press. $7.50. When Howard Nemerov’s most recent book of poems, The Next Room of the Dream, was published last year, one […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1963
The Self Recaptured
We do not know very much about how fiction works. This may indeed be the age of the novel, but, if so, we are still so involved in the form […]