January 1, 1969
Shorter Reviews: Going Places
Going Places by Leonard Michaels. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $4.95. In Going Places, Leonard Michaels has given us what must surely be one of the longest 192-page books of short […]
January 1, 1969
Compulsion to Love
Collected Stories : I by Muriel Spark. Alfred A. Knopf, $6.95. Nobody could ever accuse Muriel Spark of being afraid to take risks. Yet some of these stories, unfettered, arresting […]
January 1, 1969
Sex Ex Machina and Other Problems
And Other Stories by John O’Hara. Random House, $5.95. Selected Stories of Roald Dahl. Modern Library, $2.45. The Lonesome Traveler by John William Corrington. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, $5.95. Phineas […]
January 1, 1969
Berryman’s Dream World
His Toy, His Dream, His Rest by John Berryman. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $6.50. In opening his 77 Dream Songs, John Berryman pictures his hero as having to say “a […]
January 1, 1969
Little Pomp; Much Circumstance
Portrait of Elgar by Michael Kennedy. Oxford University Press, $10.00. The Essence of Bruckner by Robert Simpson. Chilton Book Company, $5.50. No one who has glumly marched down the […]
January 1, 1969
Only Half the Job
The London Novels of Colin MacInnes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $7.50. Nat Hentoff introduces this volume with remarks intended to show that Mr. MacInnes is not just a “documentator”— as […]
January 1, 1969
Critics of Consciousness
Critics of Consciousness: The Existential Structures of Literature by Sarah Lawall. Harvard University Press, $7.00. “Rien n’existe plus pour le critique que cette conscience qui n’est même plus d’autrui, qui […]
January 1, 1969
Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice (The Tavistock Lectures)
Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice (The Tavistock Lectures) by C. G. Jung. Pantheon Books, $6.95. Jungianism is a kind of superior game, not a cumulative “scientific contribution” after all, […]
January 1, 1969
Questions of Mission
Woodrow Wilson and World Politics: America’s Response to War and Revolution by N. Gordon Levin, Jr. Oxford University Press, $7.50. The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900 by Robert L. Beisner. McGraw-Hill Book Company, […]
January 1, 1969
With a Poet’s Discernment
Blake And Tradition by Kathleen Raine. The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1962. Bollingen Series (Princeton University Press), $22.50. Thomas Taylor the Platonist: Selected Writings edited by […]
January 1, 1969
A Rage for Disorder
Negative Capability: Studies in the New Literature and the Religious Situation by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Yale University Press, $6.00. For almost two decades Nathan A. Scott, Jr., who holds […]
January 1, 1969
Shorter Reviews: Israel and the Arabs
Israel And The Arabs by Maxime Rodinson. Translated by Michael Perl. Pantheon Books, $5.95. Es ist schwer zu sein ein Yid (It’s Hard to Be a Jew) goes the title […]