March 12, 2025
I Do Not Know Lucy Ives
The latest from Lucy Ives, An Image of My Name Enters America, is composed of five slyly connected essays, all orbiting an obsessive attempt to externalize self-knowledge through history, memory, […]
March 12, 2025
Why We Chose It: “I Do Not Know Lucy Ives”
I Do Not Know Lucy Ives appears in the Winter 2025 issue of The Kenyon Review. Sam Bodrojan’s review of Lucy Ives’s essay collection An Image of My Name Enters […]
April 21, 2024
More Semantics of Poetry
Sirs: Mr. Wheelwright bases his contribution to the “Semantics of Poetry,” in a recent Kenyon Review, on a terminology by which poetic language can be factually discussed,—”a set of definitive […]
April 21, 2024
Toward a Methord for Musicology
Philosophies of Music History by Warren Dwight Allen. American Book Company. $3.50 Mr. Allen has undertaken a heroic task. His book is a history of music histories and a critical […]
April 21, 2024
Q’s Revisions
The New Oxford Book of English Verse edited by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. Oxford Press. $3.00 Q used to come late to his class in Aristotle’s Poetics which met once a […]
April 21, 2024
The Nature of Comedy
In Praise of Comedy by James Feibleman. Macmillan. $3.75 Mr. Feibleman begins with two historical and critical surveys, then proceeds to develop an ambitious new theory of comedy, and winds […]
April 21, 2024
Unifying Science
International Encyclopedia of Unified Science. Vol. I, no. 3: Foundations of Logic and Mathematics by Rudolf Carnap. Vol. I, no. 4: Linguistic Aspects of Science by Leonard Bloomfield. Vol. II, […]
April 21, 2024
The Myth of Sainthood: a review of The Star of Satan by Georges Bernanos
The Star of Satan by George Bernanos. Macmillan. $2.50 Periodically the stream of French literature bursts its banks, casts off all moral fetters including Catholicism, and swings violently to the […]
April 20, 2024
The Loud Hill of Wales: a review of The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas
The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas. New Directions. $2.50 The unmistakable signature of Dylan Thomas’s poetry, so far as we have it in his three English volumes or in […]
April 20, 2024
France and Its Painting: a review of Modern French Painters by R. H. Wilenski; Verve VIII by E. Teriade; Paris, France by Gertrude Stein
Modern French Painters by R. H. Wilenski. Reynal & Hitchcock. $6.00 Verve VIII edited by E. Teriade. New York: Verve. $2.50 Paris, France by Gertrude Stein. Scribner. $2.50 At least […]
April 20, 2024
Concerning the Symposium
Papers for the symposium, “Literature and the Professors,’’ appearing in the current issues of this Review and the Southern Review, were received in greater numbers than it was possible to […]
April 20, 2024
The Widow
“The earth out of stone, the rose out of earth, Are strange things,” she suddenly said; “A rose in bloom is a strange thing.” “There are stranger things than that, […]