Hunger and Ideology by Steven Marcus "The Great Hunger" is a work of unusual distinction, informed at every point by the knowledge that facts alone do…
Against the American Grain, by Dwight Macdonald by Steven Marcus For years now Dwight Macdonald has been firing off his gay and spirited salvos against the barbarians in our midst,…
Who Is Fagin? by Steven Marcus FAGIN is back in the news. The English musical play, Oliver!, which is scheduled to open in New York next…
The Two Cultures, by C. P. Snow by Steven Marcus "By training I was a scientist," remarks Sir Charles Snow at the beginning of The Two Cultures and the Scientific…
On the Horizon: Annals of the Prize Ring by Steven Marcus Steven Marcus here reviews A. J. Liebling’s "The Sweet Science."
Mt. Everest and the British National Spirit:The Triumph That Marks Decline by Steven Marcus In the nature of the case, the climbing of Mt. Everest was an extraordinary event.
This Music Crept by Me Upon the Waters, by Archibald MacLeish; Dream and Responsibility, by Peter Viereck by Steven Marcus
On the Horizon: The Legacy of O. Henry by Steven Marcus The Complete Works of O. Henry consist of two volumes totaling 271 stories and 1,700 pages.
The American Negro in Search of Identity:Three Novelists: Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin by Steven Marcus In picking up a novel about Negroes one feels almost as if the writer were starting from scratch—as if he…
On the Horizon: The Highbrow Know-Nothings by Steven Marcus WYNDHAM LEWIS's The Revenge for Love, written in 1937 and now published in this country for the first time, is…
Terrors of Yoknapatawpha and Fairfield:As Reflected in Their Regional Fiction by Steven Marcus GENERALLY speaking, there are two kinds of stories being written in America today-Southern stories and Connecticut stories. These are more…
