Book Reviews
Winter 1941
The Background of a Style
For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway. Scribner. $2.75 What was for long the sign of Ernest Hemingway’s work—the curious tension between subject matter and style, between the themes […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1956
Pride Unprejudiced
Jane Austen was born in 1775, the daughter of the rector of Steventon, and she lived in this quiet village in its quiet Hampshire landscape until she was twenty-six years […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1952
Fiction with a Great Burden
D. H. Lawrence And Human Existence by Father William Tiverton. Foreword by T. S. Eliot. Philosophical Library. $3.00 Some circle has been nearly closed. Not entirely, but nearly. The […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1950
The Novel and the Individual
Two Worlds And Their Ways by Ivy Compton-Burnett. Knopf. $3.50 On This Side Nothing by Alex Comfort. Viking. $2.50 “Why can’t we admit them as human beings?” D. H. […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1949
Fiction and the “Matrix of Analogy” ¹
If the novel, as R. P. Blackmur recently proposed, is now to enjoy the kind of attention from criticism that for the past twenty years has been the privilege of […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1947
The American Novel
The Left Hand Is The Dreamer by Nancy Wilson Ross. Sloane, $3.50. The Gentle Bush by Barbara Giles. Harcourt, $3.50. This Is The Year by Feike Feikema. Doubleday, $3.00. Williwaw […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1944
Fictions Not Wholly Achieved
The Dangling Man by Saul Bellow. Vanguard. $2.50. Return of the Traveller by Rex Warner. Lippincott. $2.00. Mr. Bellow’s hero reflects: He has a community. I have this six-sided box. […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1942
Mythology (For the Study of William Blake)
It is time to argue that the central problem in William Blake, a puzzling poet, is not mysticism at all, as has been generally supposed, but mythology; a mythology which […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1941
Return of Glenway Wescott
The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott. Harper. $2.00 The reviewers of this short novel have been sympathetic toward it and quite unintelligent about it: they have had some sense of […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1940
Fiction Going and Coming
Night of the Poor by Frederic Prokosch. Harper. $2.50Tommy Gallagher’s Crusade by James T. Farrell. Vanguard Press. $1.00The Hospital by Kenneth Fearing. Random House. $2.00 Two of these novels are […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1939
Limitations of the Fable
Over the Mountain. By Ruthven Todd. Knopf. $2.50The Professor. By Rex Warner. Knopf. $2.50 It could be argued that Franz Kafka is interesting as an illustration of an occasional phenomenon […]