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Book Reviews

Spring 1962

Unwilling Ironists

By Nona Balakian

Radical Innocence: Studies In The Contemporary American Novel by Ihab Hassan. Princeton University Press. $6.00 An unbiased review of Ihab Hassans’ Radical Innocence must begin with admiration for the conception […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1953

Three English Novels

By Nona Balakian

The Retreat by P. H. Newby. Knopf. $3. The Echoing Grove by Rosamond Lehmann. Harcourt. $3.95. The Face Beside The Fire by Laurens Van der Post. Morrow. $3.50. For a […]