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Wayland Young

Fiction

Spring 1954

The Glass Trumpet

By Wayland Hilton Young

Marion, shining new from an old university, sufficient and pretty, believed in art. She believed in it all round the clock; in its existence, effects, and its causes, in a […]

Fiction

Autumn 1957

The Admirer

By Wayland Young

Further polarizing the green sea-light of Venice around and between their red and black heads, the two young women got up from the cafe table. They gathered their bags and […]

Nonfiction

Summer 1957

Letter from London

By Wayland Young

While the multi-racial uproar of the British Empire changes IV) land disintegrates to the South, to the North it has had a strange little accretion. On September 18th 1955 a […]

Nonfiction

Spring 1957

London Letter

By Wayland Young

The horses of the British mounted police have a special gait of their own for charging crowds. The rider can cause them to rear right up and advance in a […]

Book Reviews

Autumn 1954

Isherwood in the Afternoon

By Wayland Young

The World in the Evening by Christopher Isherwood. Random House. $3.50. The long awaited novel of Christopher Isherwood’s maturity is a bit of a puzzle. People have waited so long […]