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W. P. Southard

Nonfiction

Winter 1946

Escape to Reality

By W. P. Southard

Mr. Ransom’s remarks on my program for universal salvation, as outlined in the last section of the Speculation, were acute and just, and I ought to have known something everybody […]

Book Reviews

Summer 1943

Images with Abstract Titles

By W. P. Southard

Paul Klee: Paintings, Watercolors, 1913 to 1939 edited by Karl Nierendorf. Oxford. $8.00 These are 67 reproductions, two in color, the best selection out, with pleasant reminiscences by Mr. Nierendorf, […]

Book Reviews

Winter 1943

Lady Flat on Her Back

By W. P. Southard

The Company She Keeps by Mary McCarthy. Simon and Schuster. $2.50. The author says her “novel in six parts” is about “a missing object … the ordinary, indispensable self that has somehow […]

Fiction

Spring 1942

Give Me Time

By W. P. Southard

In 1935 my brother was the age that I am now, and I suppose I was like other little brothers, but I don’t remember that my brother ever had a […]