The Romance of American Communism, by Vivian Gornick by Marion Magid ON STALINISM, at least, one might have thought the verdict was in for all time, but no such luck. The…
To an Early Grave, by Wallace Markfield by Marion Magid Like a number of recent examples of the urban-picaresque mode, "To an Early Grave" seems less a novel than a…
Auteur! Auteur! by Marion Magid As any reader of the film quarterlies will know, while the rest of us have been arguing over such questions…
The Innocence of Tennessee Williams by Marion Magid Tennessee Williams is not our best, but our only American playwright since O'Neill. His imagination magnetized though it is by…
Jewish Wit, by Theodor Reik by Marion Magid IT WOULD BE ironic indeed if Jewish wit had outdistanced its persecutors for centuries, only to succumb in the end…
