Nonfiction
Spring 1956
Fiction and the Criticism of Fiction¹
The novel is at the present time universally recognized as one of the greater historic forms of literary art. Its resources and capacities appear to be commensurate with the realities […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1945
Modernizing James
Henry James: The Major Phase by F. O. Matthiessen. Oxford. $2.50. This book is an important contribution to the growing literature about Henry James. For all the talk of […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1944
Lost Illusions
Arrival And Departure by Arthur Koestler. Macmillan. $2.00. This novel is more the product of the exasperated political sensibility than of consistent political thought. It is a brilliant piece of […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1943
Mrs. Woolf and Mrs. Brown
Virginia Woolf by E. M. Forster. Harcourt, Brace. $1.00. Virginia Woolf by David Daiches. New Directions. $1.50. The Death Of The Moth by Virginia Woolf. Harcourt, Brace. $3.00. In her […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1942
Souvenirs and Experiments
New Directions in Prose and Poetry, 1941. Edited by James Laughlin. New Directions. $3.50 On the whole James Laughlin has been making good progress with his annual collection of […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1939
Paleface and Redskin
Viewed historically, American writers appear to group themselves around two polar types. Paleface and redskin I should like to call the two, and despite occasional efforts at reconciliation no love […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1939
Franz Kafka: The Hero as Lonely Man
With the recent publication in German of Max Brod’s biography of Franz Kafka, it has at last become possible to approach the author of The Trial and The Castle from […]