The State of the Novel by John W. Aldridge Preoccupation with the state of the novel was until about ten years ago one of the major bores of American…
How Good is Alison Lurie? by John W. Aldridge There is some firm evidence in the five novels she has so far published that Alison Lurie should be a…
My Life as a Man, by Philip Roth by John W. Aldridge In 1961, Philip Roth published in these pages a remarkable essay entitled "Writing American Fiction" which attracted considerable attention at…
Seduction and Betrayal, by Elizabeth Hardwick by John W. Aldridge Elizabeth Hardwick's new collection of essays, all first published in the New York Review of Books, is a work of…
The Unwritten War: American Writers and the Civil War, by Daniel Aaron by John W. Aldridge Daniel Aaron has written a book about the impact of the Civil War on American writers in order to demonstrate…
Afterthoughts on the 20’s by John W. Aldridge The publication last spring of Malcolm Cowley's "A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation" has reopened a…
Cannibals and Christians, by Norman Mailer by John W. Aldridge More eloquently than Burroughs or Genet, with perhaps something even of the jubilant nausea of Kierkegaard, Norman Mailer has advertised…
Standards: A Chronicle of Books for Our Time, by Stanley Edgar Hyman by John W. Aldridge Stanley Hyman has here brought together a selection of fifty-four of the reviews he has written in recent years for…
