Philip Johnson’s Brilliant Career by Hilton Kramer His wit all see-saw, between that and this, Now high, now low, now master up, now miss. And he himself…
Saul Bellow, Our Contemporary by Hilton Kramer The authors whose books we read when they are new and we are young are bound to occupy a place…
The Flowers on Sartre’s Grave by Hilton Kramer In one of the reports that Jane Kramer used to send to the New Yorker from Paris in the 1980's,…
American Jews and Israel – A Symposium by Lionel Abel, Robert Alter, Daniel Bell, Eric M. Breindel, Joel Carmichael, Paul Cowan, Werner J. Dannhauser, Midge Decter, Maurice Friedberg, Murray Friedman, Nathan Glazer, Irving Greenberg, Ben Halpern, Mark Helprin, Milton Himmelfarb, Erich Isaac, Rael Isaac, H. J. Kaplan, Hilton Kramer, Edward N. Luttwak, Michael A. Meyer, Jacob Neusner, William Phillips, Daniel.Pipes, Richard Pipes, Dennis Prager, Earl Raab, Eugene V. Rostow, Jonathan D. Sarna, Peter Shaw, Seymour Siegel, David Singer, Max Singer, Steven L. Spiegel, Roger Starr and Marie Syrkin Never, perhaps, has criticism of the state of Israel by American Jews been so open, so widespread, and so bitter…
The Importance of Sidney Hook by Hilton Kramer Of the writers who belonged to the original "family" of the now much-chronicled New York intellectuals, Sidney Hook has been…
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air, by Marshall Berman by Hilton Kramer The role played by modernist culture in the radical movement of the 1960's, though often assumed to have been a…
The Three Worlds of Leonid, by Leonid Berman by Hilton Kramer These memoirs ought to have made melancholy reading. Leonid Berman was born into the doomed Jewish bourgeoisie of St. Petersburg…
We Must March My Darlings, by Diana Trilling by Hilton Kramer In the lengthy note that Diana Trilling appended to her piece on "Liberal Anti-Communism Revisited" in her new book of…
Barthelme’s Comedy of Patricide by Hilton Kramer Fatherhood, as we have lately been reminded by Martin Green in Children of the Sun, is the great bugbear of…
Naipaul’s Guerrillas and Oates’s Assassins by Hilton Kramer One does not have to read very far in V. S. Naipaul's new novel-the first short chapter will do-to experience…
Lonely Rituals by Hilton Kramer Arnold Bennett, reviewing Dodsworth, observed that the novels of Sinclair Lewis "have always one admirable quality: they are about something."…
