April 1, 1965
The Sense of Guilt
I find a curious mood in myself when thinking about the second half of the 1930s. It is different from my feelings about the earlier days when writers went on […]
April 1, 1965
Reality’s Shifting Stages: Reviews by Five Hands
The Broken Ground by Wendell Berry. Harcourt, Brace and World, $3.95. Wendell Berry’s The Broken Ground announces the beginning of a career in poetry that probably will be more durable […]
April 1, 1965
Wolf Enough
Wolf enough, he prowled outside the pack, nozzle to moon and baying loneliness, or laired in ice, unpaired, he felt the lack of someone furred to share his coldnesses—and well […]
April 1, 1965
Hawthorne and 100 Years: A Report from the Academy
As I have said, we are always finding new Hawthornes, but the illusion soon wears away, and then we perceive that… he had some peculiar difference from them. —William Dean […]
April 1, 1965
“Such an Adam as He Is in the Motions”
The south dreamed me that day I climbed, in cloud, to a summer spun of leaves where leaves spread lakes around the boles of trees and shine back to the […]
January 1, 1965
The Poignant Prophet
Aldous Huxley’s professional life divided sharply: he won his first audience as a satirist and attracted his second as a prophet. Toward the end he was often called a philosopher. […]
January 1, 1965
Listening to Leda in the Cemetery
After the shortcut past the stones, By clover lawns and cherry trees, I watched a clipped priest of a swan Invest himself in water. Saw The quick transparency: blue mist […]
January 1, 1965
That Old Vitriola
Music Observed by B. H. Haggin. Oxford University Press, $6.50. When I was asked to write a review for the present issue, I was pleased—especially because I have felt for […]
January 1, 1965
This Dying Lark
The behan story, in a way, begins with the Playboy riots of 1907. Irish nationalism, the Establishment-to-be, had fuelled (and, of course, was fuelled by) the new drama but Synge […]
January 1, 1965
Notions Good and Bad
Sometimes A Great Notion by Ken Kesey. The Viking Press, $7.50. Bad Characters by Jean Stafford. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $4.95. Cabot Wright Begins by James Purdy. Farrar, Straus and […]
January 1, 1965
The Marriage Wig
If you’re going to marry, make sure you first know whom you’re going to divorce. —Yiddish Proverb 1. The Mishnah says I blind you with my hair, that when I […]
January 1, 1965
Lost: One Mind
Foreign And Other Affairs: A View From The Radical Center by John Paton Davies, Jr. W. W. Norton and Company, $4.00. There is one obscure moment the life of John […]