October 1, 1979
Editorial: A Note on Modernism and Value
Modernism is a term like left and right: its meaning depends on which way one is facing. What constitutes the “modern” changes not only with time but even more importantly […]
January 1, 1979
Editorial: The Apples of Olympia
Outside Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre there hung an emblem depicting Hercules carrying the starry sphere upon his shoulders. Hercules the human hero has taken on the task from Atlas the god, […]
January 1, 1968
Editor’s Note
Christina Stead (England) Herbert Gold (United States) Erih Kǒs (Yugoslavia) Nadine Gordimer (South Africa) Benedict Kiely (Ireland) Hugh Hood (Canada) Henrietta Drake-Brockman (Australia) Carlo Cassola (Italy) Our first plan was […]
January 1, 1961
Standpoint
During the recent Presidential campaign there was a good deal of rather imprecise discussion of the matter of “America’s image abroad.” This number of the Review carries the second in […]
July 1, 1958
Edgar Collins Bogardus
A few weeks ago Edgar Bogardus died of asphyxiation from a defective gas flue in his old home at Mount Vernon, Ohio. He had only a few months earlier assumed […]
October 1, 1946
Editorial: The 1946 Short Story Prize Contest
In the judgment of the Editors, two stories stood out above all other entries in the 1946 Short Story Prize Contest, conducted by this Review and Doubleday and Company, Inc. […]
January 1, 1945
The Severity of Mr. Savage
Mr. D. S. Savage, the English poet and critic, has kindly allowed us to see some essays of a forthcoming book, and we cannot but appreciate the unusual consistency of […]
July 1, 1944
Editor’s Note: Gerard Manley Hopkins
The poet was born in 1844, and died in 1889; and the four essays that follow are in the nature of an anniversary tribute. These papers are not to be […]
April 1, 1944
Announcement to Contributors
We are happy to announce that this Review has now received a considerable three-year benefaction from a new source, greatly relieving the strain of financing in war time. The budgetary […]
September 26, 1943
E. M. Forster
The Forster revival is good for us, especially in a time when everybody is planning a new world. The only one of the five novels that was sufficiently known to […]
September 26, 1943
The James Number
The nine essays which make up the body of this number are in tribute to Henry James upon the occasion of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. They were prepared […]
April 1, 1943
Editorial Comment: The Inorganic Muses
For some time I had planned to prepare an essay, as soon as I could rely better upon my feelings in the matter, about the radical innovation I seemed to […]