April 1, 1939
The Morality of Mr. Winters
Maule’s Curse. By Yvor Winters. New Directions. $3.00 “God,” said the dying man, pointing his finger, with a ghastly look, at the undismayed countenance of his enemy, “God will give […]
April 1, 1939
Stage and Film
The American Theater. By John Anderson. And “The Motion Picture in America,” by René Fülop-Miller. The Dial Press. $5.00 As I know no way of saying two things at precisely […]
April 1, 1939
The Quality of Man
Man’s Hope. By André Malraux. Translated from the French by Stuart Gilbert and Alastair Macdonald. Random House. $2.50 To say that Man’s Hope is not a novel in the traditional […]
April 1, 1939
New Continent
How swiftly has belief divinedA timeless country in the mind.Stern in its gardens a high sun stands.Precise and eloquent are the sandsThat greet its sea. So fit the placeAnd fleet […]
April 1, 1939
Another Typhoon
In Hazard. By Richard Hughes. Harper & Brothers. $2.50 What Richard Hughes has, above all else, is the power to startle. This is a great and dangerous gift which in the […]
April 1, 1939
New Forces in American Art
If society were suddenly empowered to establish arbitrarily its own conception of the perfect conditions for the encouragement and production of art, it might easily end by killing art. […]
April 1, 1939
One Thousand Sonnets
M: One Thousand Autobiographical Sonnets. By Merrill Moore. Harcourt Brace and Co. $5.00 Dr. Merrill Moore’s variant on the sonnet has pleased many choice readers. One of them is Dr. […]
January 1, 1939
Gallic Pageant
Death of a World (Men of Good Will, volume VII) by Jules Romains. Knopf. $3.00. As each new volume appears, the reader of Jules Romains’ Men of Good Will feels […]
January 1, 1939
Twenty-Five Directions
NEW DIRECTIONS 1938. Edited by James Laughlin IV. New Directions. $2.50 Finding twenty-five or thirty new directions a year is a task that might strain any literary compass, even so […]
January 1, 1939
The Winter’s Tale
The storm rehearses through the bewildered fieldsIts general logic; the contorted or dispassionateFaces work out their incredulity, or stammerThe mistaking sentences. Night falls. In the litSchoolroom the hothouse guests are […]
January 1, 1939
The Two Audens
Auden moves fast, like a good boxer. His subject, his opponent, present-day England, is moving fast also. Perhaps the fate of the poet is bound up with the fate of […]
January 1, 1939
Farrell and Steinbeck
NO STAR IS LOST. By James T. Farrell. The Vanguard Press. $3.00THE LONG VALLEY. By John Steinbeck. The Viking Press. $2.50 Two or three years ago, the grouping of James […]