Nonfiction
Autumn 1952
Norman Douglas
So, while her arm rested lightly on mine, we wandered about those gardens, the saintly lady and myself; her mind dwelling, maybe, on memories of her one classic love-adventure and […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1950
Ten Poets
Ten Poets Collected Poems by Isaac Rosenberg, Schocken Books, Inc., $3.50. Poems by Wilfred Owen, New Directions, $1.50. The Lost Son by Theodore Roethke, John Lehmann, 6s net. Strike Through […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1950
I Will Teach You My Townspeople
Paterson (Book III) by William Carlos Williams. New Directions. $3.00 A Dream Of Love, A Play by William Carlos-Williams. New Directions. $1.50 The Clouds by William Carlos Williams. Wells College […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1949
Between Fraud and Heroism
In The American Grain by William Carlos Williams. New Directions. $1.00. One can understand why this book is not better known. It should be known by everyone whose interest in […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1949
New Books of Verse
The Pisan Cantos by Ezra Pound. New Directions. $2.75. Other Skies by John Ciardi. Atlantic-Little Brown & Co. $2.00. In Public, In Private by Edwin Denby. The Decker Press. $2.50. […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1947
Weltschmerz Refurbished
Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry. Reynal and Hitchcock. $3.00. This novel resists classification. It cannot fairly be called a “first,” a “psychological,” or a “philosophical” novel although it is […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1944
Smear and Whitewash
The Literary Fallacy by Bernard DeVoto. Little Brown. $2.50. Mr. DeVoto’s latest foray against the writers of the twenties and thirties is only the last of many similarly bitter and […]