Book Reviews
Summer 1969
Shorter Reviews: Lawrence in Love: Letters to Louie Burrows
Lawrence in Love: Letters to Louie Burrows edited by James T. Boulton. Southern Illinois University Press, $7.50. This volume of Lawrence’s letters is a very satisfying thing to read. Especially […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1969
Only Half the Job
The London Novels of Colin MacInnes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $7.50. Nat Hentoff introduces this volume with remarks intended to show that Mr. MacInnes is not just a “documentator”— as […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1966
Comment on “In and Out of Fashion”
Re-Appraisals: Some Commonsense Readings in American Literature by Martin Green. W. W. Norton and Company, $6.00. The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel by Jonathan Baumbach. New […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1966
The Morality of Lolita
People talk of the art of the future, meaning by art of the future some especially refined new art which they imagine will be developed out of that exclusive art […]
Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section
Summer 1965
The Problems of Fictional Theater
The Dickens Theatre: A Reassessment Of The Novels by Robert Garis. Oxford University Press, $5.60. What Mr. Garis has to say about Dickens in this remarkable book is comparatively easy […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1964
A Sling against Goliath
The Myth Of The Britannica by Harvey Einbinder. Grove Press. $7.50. This is much more than an attack on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. It is also a collection of anecdotes of […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1963
Science and Sensibility
Part I, Science for the Layman The convulsed, contorted humanist, impaled on the accusation of the two cultures, will come at last (if he is a man of good will) […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Autumn 1962
A Literary Defense of “The Two Cultures”
It is now nearly three years since C. P. Snow delivered the Rede Lecture that was afterward published under the title of The Two Cultures. F. R. Leavis’ recent attack […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1959
British Decency
I. F. R. Leavis, 1958 The sky was inky grey, the gravel paths gleamed wet and brown, and the buildings were a smooth wet featureless buff color round the broad […]