The Anatomy of “Playboy” by Benjamin DeMott AT FIRST GLANCE, the magazines-Gent, Dude, Nugget, Playboy, and the rest-seem about as remarkable as bananas in a fruit store.…
Notes on the American Press by Benjamin DeMott WHAT KILLED the American press? Prickly irascibility. Whose prickly irascibility? Its own. Like every catechism this one has its limits:…
The New Professors, edited by Robert O. Bowen by Benjamin DeMott CLEVER folk scorn it as a cliche and vulgar men read it with dollar-conscious leers, but the plain truth remains…
