American Cassandra, by Peter Kurth by Kenneth S. Lynn The German playwright Carl Zuckmayer's word for Dorothy Thompson was “double-portion,” and it seems right.
The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe by Kenneth S. Lynn What happens when one of the kings of the New Journalism, who throughout his career has employed fictional techniques in…
The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, by Doris Kearns Goodwin by Kenneth S. Lynn The author of The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys, an ambitious work of more than 900 pages spanning a hundred years…
The Schlesinger Thesis by Kenneth S. Lynn Once upon a time, the books of the historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. were worth reading. Today, having lost his…
The Lyrical Left, by Edward Abrahams by Kenneth S. Lynn The Lyrical Left is not merely a historical account of the rise and fall of cultural radicalism in pre-1917 New…
Literary Criticism. French Writers. Other European Writers. The Prefaces to the New York Edition, by Henry James by Kenneth S. Lynn At the close of his nation's Civil War, the twenty-two-year-old Henry James entered upon the "delicate task," as he would…
An American Procession, by Alfred Kazin by Kenneth S. Lynn The major key to his native city, said Henry James, was the monstrous labyrinth stretching from Canal Street to the…
The Roots of Treason: Ezra Pound and the Secret of St. Elizabeths, by E. Fuller Torrey by Kenneth S. Lynn Edwin Fuller Torrey, M.D., is a member of the psychiatric staff at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C. Although by…
Mailer: A Biography, by Hilary Mills by Kenneth S. Lynn For forty years the reviewing of new American writing has been dominated by critics who have sought to extend the…
What Was Literature?, by Leslie Fiedler by Kenneth S. Lynn As Leslie Fiedler himself acknowledges in his latest book, What Was Literature?, the only reason the editor Philip Rahv decided…
Santayana and the Genteel Tradition by Kenneth S. Lynn The Harvard faculty of the 1890's thought of itself as made up of men of superbly independent mind. George Santayana,…
Waldo Emerson: A Biography, by Gay Wilson Allen by Kenneth S. Lynn Commentators on Emerson's life have always been "notably skittish" about dealing with the circumstances and implications of Emerson's first marriage…
