History Into Art by John Romano "One January afternoon in the year 1941, a German soldier was out walking, enjoying an afternoon's liberty, when he found…
Joan Didion & Her Characters by John Romano Two paradoxes characterize Joan Didion's writing. The first concerns her subject matter. The other paradox concerns her way of writing.
Redemption According to Cheever by John Romano When, in John Cheever's new novel, Falconer, Ezekiel Farragut's impossibly beautiful wife Marcia returns from three weeks in Rome with…
Selected Poems, 1923-1975, by Robert Penn Warren by John Romano There is something anomalous in the poetic achievement of Robert Penn Warren, and it is not the anomaly of his…
Ann Beattie & the 60’s by John Romano Ann Beattie's stories have been appearing in the New Yorker for the past few years, and have now been collected…
Hugh Kenner’s Modernism by John Romano One way to describe Hugh Kenner's immense influence as a critic is to say that, to a remarkable extent, he…
William Carlos Williams, by Reed Whittemore by John Romano The story of American literary modernism, as told until a few years ago, was doubly rare among intellectual histories: it…
The New Laureates by John Romano They are the two poets most closely attended to by poetry's present audience, the poets of their generation most often…
Three American Moralists, by Nathan A. Scott, Jr. by John Romano There can be no doubt that the liberal, literary intelligence that came to maturity after World War II has declined…
Our Best-Known Neglected Novelist by John Romano John Hawkes is perhaps this nation's best-known neglected novelist.
Sylvia Plath Reconsidered by John Romano As a general rule, no writer is responsible for the vagaries of his posthumous literary reputation. Sylvia Plath, martyr and…
