January 1, 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: […]
January 1, 1969
Shorter Reviews: The New Yorkers
The New Yorkers by Hortense Calisher. Little, Brown and Company, $7.95. So many echoes reverberate throughout The New Yorkers that the reader has the choice of being tantalized or infuriated. […]
January 1, 1969
The Americanization of John Lehmann
In My Own Time: Memoirs of a Literary Life by John Lehmann. Little, Brown and Company, $15.00. In My Own Time is a stout and expensive condensation of the three […]
January 1, 1969
Plot Luck
The Process by Brion Gysin. Doubleday and Company, $5.95. Cowboys Don’t Cry by L. J. Davis. The Viking Press, $5.75. Erebus by Robert Hunter. Grove Press, $5.95. The Professionals by […]
January 1, 1968
Shorter Reviews: The Problem of Boston: Some Readings in Cultural History
The Problem Of Boston: Some Readings in Cultural History by Martin Green. W. W. Norton and Company, $6.00. Martin Green takes nineteenth-century Boston as a test case for a theory […]
January 1, 1968
The Puzzling Design of “Absalom, Absalom!”
It is now generally recognized that Absalom, Absalom! consists of several interrelated attempts to make sense out of the past, that none of these attempts is definitive, and that the […]
January 1, 1968
The Quiddities of Detail
The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron. Random House, $6.95. In The Confessions of Nat Turner we hear Nat tell of the slave rebellion he led in Southampton […]
January 1, 1968
Coming of Age in Their Forties
Mayo Sergeant by James B. Hall. New American Library, $4.95. The Pleasure Garden by Oakley Hall. The Viking Press, $4.95. An Exile by Madison Jones. The Viking Press, $4.50. A […]
January 1, 1968
Fusion of Two Worlds
The Diary of Anaïs Nin: Volume Two, 1934-1939 edited by Gunther Stuhlmann. Swallow Press and Harcourt, Brace and World, $6.95. The second volume of The Diary of Anaïs Nin is […]
January 1, 1968
Us Unmistakably
Death in Life: Survivors of Hiroshima by Robert Jay Lifton. Random House, $10.00. Psychiatrists are, of course. physicians whose everyday work confronts them with troubled people and turbulent emotions. In […]
January 1, 1968
Joyful Body
Stand Up, Friend, With Me by Edward Field. Grove Press, $1.45. Variety Photoplays by Edward Field. Grove Press, $1.95. They recommend themselves from the very start, these two volumes […]
January 1, 1968
Myths and Mothers
from the German. Myth, Religion and Mother Right by Johann Jakob Bachofen. Edited by Rudolph Marx and translated by Ralph Manheim. Bollingen Series (Princeton University Press), $5.00. Mother Right (Das […]