Book Reviews
Autumn 1959
Henderson’s Bellow
Henderson The Rain King by Saul Bellow. Viking. $4.50. The first forty pages of Henderson The Rain King, are packed with enough material for two or three novels, odd, […]
Fiction
Spring 1959
The Assessment of an Amateur
I stopped drawing large drafts on my future when I was just shy of thirty—the usual age, I think, for those with the artistic temperament; for that, I suppose, is […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1958
A Perverse Fiction
By Love Possessed by James Gould Cozzens. Harcourt. $5.00. The form of James Cozzens’ latest novel is that of The Ambassadors: the book is organized around a central consciousness, an […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1956
Proust and Joyce Underway: Jean Santeuil and Stephen Hero
Jean Santeuil by Marcel Proust, tr. by Gerard Hopkins. Simon and Schuster. $5.95. Stephen Hero by James Joyce. Edited by Theodore Spencer, with additional manuscript pages edited by John J. […]
Fiction
Spring 1954
Cooley’s Version
Professor De Witte, head bent low, took the Widener steps two at a time. Still he managed to keep his eye on a stubby, redheaded man standing by a pillar, […]