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
Winter 1966
Hemingway and Me: A Rather Long Story
July 2, 1961. It was late if a hot bright Sunday morning when my phone rang with the news of Hemingway’s sudden departure from the living. All the instruments agreed: […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1965
Hawthorne and 100 Years: A Report from the Academy
As I have said, we are always finding new Hawthornes, but the illusion soon wears away, and then we perceive that… he had some peculiar difference from them. —William Dean […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1964
Our Hemingway Man
Part I, The End of Compendium Reviewing Nothing like starting with a confession: this was to have been a whole lot grander. I had dreamed up a poor academic slob […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1962
The Mother of Us All: Pocahontas Reconsidered
“Were there two sides to Pocahontas? Did she have a fourth dimension?” —Ernest Hemingway …having feasted him after their best barbarous manner they could, a long consultation was held, but the […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1962
The Dungeon of the Novel
The Dungeon Of The Heart by Edwin T. Bowden. The Macmillan Company. $3.75. Form And Fable In American Fiction by Daniel G. Hoffman. Oxford University Press. $7.00. This looks like […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1960
Fallen from Time: The Mythic Rip Van Winkle
“Black wing, brown wing, hover over; Twenty years and the spring is over; To-day grieves, to-morrow grieves, Cover me over, light-in-leaves …” —T. S. ELIOT Washington Irving is reported to […]