Book Reviews
Summer 1969
Myth or Criticism
Continuites by Frank Kermode. Random House, $5.95. The Urgent West by Walter Allen. E. P. Dutton and Company, $5.95. The conclusions of The Urgent West are that we have a […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ November 1969
Shorter Reviews: Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714
Poems On Affairs Of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714. Volume I: 1660-1678, edited by George deF. Lord ($10.00); Volume II: 1678-1681, edited by Elias F. Mengel, Jr. ($12.50); Volume III: […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1967
I’ll Play My Father
The Revolutionary Personality by E. Victor Wolfenstein. Princeton University Press, $7.50. The Revolutionary Personality is a distillate of modern orthodoxy. Essentially Freudian, it attempts yet once more to assert that, […]
Book Reviews
Autumn/ November 1966
The Totalitarian Liberal State
The New Radicals by Paul Jacobs and Saul Landau. Vintage Books, $1.95. Thoughts Of The Young Radicals, A Collection of Essays from The New Republic. New Republic, .75. We Accuse […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1966
On Plagiarism as One of the Fine Arts
The Mine and the Mint by Albert Goldman. Southern Illinois University Press, $5.95. The De Quincey of this book is neither critic, familiar essayist, nor the aesthetically privileged figure of […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1966
Sexus
Sexus by Henry Miller. Grove Press, $1.25. Grove Press has published an imitation of Henry Miller by Henry Miller. It should make the stockholders very happy. And the reviewers. […]
Reviews: Dickens and Some Others: Special Review Section
Summer 1965
The Convert and the Heretic
Love and Revolution: My Journey Through an Epoch by Max Eastman. Random House, $8.95. William James begins his chapter on conversion in The Varieties of Religious Experience by remarking that […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1965
Zion as Main Street
Waiting for the End by Leslie A. Fiedler. Stein and Day, $5.95. Once upon a time when Alienation was a new word the doctors prescribed culture pills. The patient recovered […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1964
Shakespeare: Some Recent Books
The most visible book this year has been A. L. Rowse’s William Shakespeare (Harper and Row, $6.95). We know how this book was received, and perhaps there is no use […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1964
Rochester and the Defeat of the Senses
No one was more frequently banished from the court of Charles II than the Earl of Rochester. This was generally a consequence of his private life, and of that we […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1963
Hostis Humani Generis
Eichmann In Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil by Hannah Arendt. The Viking Press, $5.50. Certain modern trials have confirmed the principle that law is an extension of […]