Book Reviews
Autumn/ September 1966
Shorter Reviews: The Dark
The Dark by John McGahern. Alfred A. Knopf, $3.95. Excited by Gunter Grass, the man down the road said, “The Irish novel is a trifle, a joke. In Germany and […]
Department KR: A Section of Briefer Comment
Winter 1965
This Dying Lark
The behan story, in a way, begins with the Playboy riots of 1907. Irish nationalism, the Establishment-to-be, had fuelled (and, of course, was fuelled by) the new drama but Synge […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1962
Involved Humanity
I Remember! I Remember! by Sean O’Faolain. Atlantic-Little, Brown. $4.50. In Ireland, over recent years. A major problem has been evident in connection with short-story writing: the necessity to enliven—or […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1964
The Deadly Corkman
The Lonely Voice by Frank O’Connor. The World Publishing Company. $4.00. Traveling on a plane from London to Dublin recently, I fell into the company of a New Critic, our […]