Book Reviews
Winter 1942
Good-Bad Novels
The Hermit Place by Mark Schorer. Random House. $2.50 So It Doesn’t Whistle by Robert Paul Smith. Harcourt Brace. $2.50 In The Hermit Place, the landscape of treachery, weakness, […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1965
Let Me Tell You about the Rich…
The love of money is the root of all evil. If you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich? A man who marries money has to earn it. Money can’t buy […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1958
Two Renaissance Novels
Fires On The Plain by Shohei Ooka. Knopf. $3.50 The Makioka Sisters by Junichiro Tanizaki. Knopf. $4.95. Fiction writers a kind of aborigines, defend a constantly diminishing territory. They are […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1957
Big Novel
The Velvet Horn by Andrew Lytle. McDowell, Obolensky. $3.95. Southern Novels have a habit of telling you what good families they come from (why, the Oxford branch, you know) […]
Fiction
Spring 1957
Legend of Two Swimmers
Everyone must have a worthless uncle; it is a part of life. At ten I knew all there was to know about remittance-men and black-sheep younger sons shipped off to […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1956
A McCarthy Inquiry
A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy. Harcourt. $3.95. Readers of The Oasis and The Groves of Academe may have prepared themselves for another turbulent, clever, conflicting McCarthy investigation—this time […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1955
Stranger, Tread Light¹
The Laird of Gartmore, disguised as the Sheik Mohammed el Fasi, was riding through the Atlas mountains on his way toward the forbidden city of Tarudant when he was captured […]
Fiction
Winter 1955
The Chevigny Man
The last of the Renaissance men,” said Paul Teeling, tipping the bottle uncertainly at the jigger as if trying to salt the tail of an elusive bird. “Poet, art-critic, novelist, […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1951
Private Jones’s Revenge
From Here To Eternity. By James Jones. Scribner’s. $4.50 This book is scarcely a subject for criticism; it lumbers from cover to cover like a huge prime-mover and even the […]
Fiction
Winter 1951
The Thin Voice
They had come down to Heiligenkreuz in Major Danney’s civilian car and that was some comfort. But now they were standing in the dark on the schoolhouse steps, hunch-backed under […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1949
The Good Ford
Along with G. P. R. James and Mrs. Oliphant, we have forgotten Ford Madox Ford. Some middle-aged book reader might remember that he collaborated with Joseph Conrad, changed his name […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1943
Gallic American
Memories Of Happy Days by Julian Green. Harpers. $3.00. The lives of the poets are among the pleasant by-products of literature—the leisurely, intimate personal conversations about the past such as […]