January 1, 1966
The Education of Daniel J. Boorstin
The Americans: The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin. Random House, $8.95. Daniel J. Boorstin’s repudiation of the Communist Party is long since behind him, but his effort to atone […]
January 1, 1966
Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed
QUEEN VICTORIA: BORN TO SUCCEED by Elizabeth Longford. Harper and Row, $8.50. Appearing forty-four years after Lytton Strachey’s Queen Victoria, the Countess of Longford’s biography represents an astonishing failure to […]
January 1, 1966
In and Out of Fashion
Re-Appraisals: Some Commonsense Readings in American Literature by Martin Green. W. W. Norton and Company, $6.00. The Landscape of Nightmare: Studies in the Contemporary American Novel by Jonathan Baumbach. New […]
January 1, 1966
All: The Collected Short Poems: 1923-1958
This is the most importantly bad book I have read this year, both because of its feebleness as poetry and because of its perniciousness as a model. I am told […]
January 1, 1966
Three French Poets
From Symbolism to Baudelaire by Angelo P. Bertocci. Southern Illinois University Press, $4.50. Apollinaire by Margaret Davies. St. Martin’s Press, $10.00. Mallarmé by Guy Michaud. Translated by Marie Collins and […]
January 1, 1966
The Big House of Ross-Drishane
In Ireland, until recent years, the great house or manor house was known simply as the Big House. In George Moore’s Hail and Farewell, for example, it is to the […]
January 1, 1966
Hemingway and Me: A Rather Long Story
July 2, 1961. It was late if a hot bright Sunday morning when my phone rang with the news of Hemingway’s sudden departure from the living. All the instruments agreed: […]
January 1, 1966
Excursion
One of the least advertised pleasures of travel is the frequenting of graves … One of the most touching graves in all the world must be that of the little […]
January 1, 1966
Dickens and the Scandal-Mongers
Dickens and the Scandal-Mongers by Edward Wagenknecht. University of Oklahoma Press, $5.00. Humanities professors look with awe upon the accomplishments of computers, assembly lines, mass advertising, mass marketing, and—wonder […]
January 1, 1966
Young Critics on Young Poets
Death Of The Kapowsin Tavern by Richard F. Hugo. Harcourt, Brace and World, $3.95 I came to this book doubly prejudiced in its favor. First because I was recently frightened […]
January 1, 1966
The Nightclerk
The Nightclerk by Stephen Schneck. Grove Press, $4.95. This is the winner of the $10,000 Formentor Novel Prize. It joins the company of such other “illustrious” winners as Summer […]
January 1, 1966
Sexus
Sexus by Henry Miller. Grove Press, $1.25. Grove Press has published an imitation of Henry Miller by Henry Miller. It should make the stockholders very happy. And the reviewers. […]