Nonfiction
Winter 1957
The Fiction of Graham Greene: Between the Horror and the Glory
The story of The Quiet American, Graham Greene’s recent novel about the war in Indochina, is told in a smooth but sometimes inaudible undertone that marks a further decline from […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1956
Poetry and Change
Poetry And Change The Metamorphic Tradition In Modern Poetry by Sister M. Bernena Quinn. Rutgers. $4.50. Sister Bernetta Quinn’s book deals with the special concern with change in the […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1956
The Private Soul
The Inmost Leaf by Alfred Kazin. Harcourt. $4.75. Although Alfred Kazin, whose occasional essays are collected in The Inmost Leaf, is enormously fascinated by the world of literature, he […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1955
Fiction and Power: Some Notes on Ignazio Silone
European critics are fond of remarking that Ignazio Silone is not really a writer, but something else–a sort of moral force, perhaps. It is no doubt a great thing to […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1954
Spectroscope for Ideas
Studies in Intellectual History by George Boas and others. The Johns Hopkins Press. $3.75. The Essays in the historiography of ideas which comprise this I book,” the fly-leaf explains, “are […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1954
Poetry’s Chevalier
Poetry And The Age by Randall Jarrell. Knopf. $4.00. Mr. Randall Jarrell has brought together here slightly subdued versions of a number of essays and reviews published in various periodicals […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1951
The Hero in the New World: William Faulkner’s “The Bear”¹
If, as several of Faulkner’s most enlightened observers have suggested, the novels and stories preceding Go Down Moses possess an atmosphere like that of the Old Testament, then The Bear […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1951
Casella as Critic: A Note on R. P. Blackmur
The prose of R. P. Blackmur reveals a mastery of the unsprung paradox—the paradox which never quite gets uttered, the paradox lurking in the syntax, content perhaps to remain muted […]