Death in Life by Theodore Solotaroff It gets harder and harder to see Susan Sontag through the smoke of opinion that smolders away now on all…
Herzog, by Saul Bellow by Theodore Solotaroff "Herzog" is a lovely book, so crammed with wit and thoughtfulness and feeling that one can go on reading it…
Irving Howe-The Socialist Imagination by Theodore Solotaroff Over the past decade or so there have seemed to be two Irving Howes. One, of course, is the literary…
Once Upon a Droshky, by Jerome Charyn; and Seven Days of Mourning, by L. S. Simckes by Theodore Solotaroff A few years ago, I belonged to an informal circle at the University of Chicago. Most of us were graduate…
“Ship of Fools” & the Critics by Theodore Solotaroff WHATEVER THE problems were that kept Katherine Anne Porter's Ship of Fools* from appearing during the past twenty years, it…
David Knudsen, by George P. Elliott by Theodore Solotaroff THIS IS A luminous and important novel that deserves much better than the perfunctory or hostile reviews that it received…
Isaac Rosenfeld: The Human Use of Literature by Theodore Solotaroff "THAT WHICH DIES ACQUIRES a life of its own." The statement, made by Isaac Rosenfeld himself in one of his…
Bernard Malamud’s Fiction: The Old Life & the New by Theodore Solotaroff I WOULD SAY THAT Bernard Malamud has been a writer almost unique in our time. He has found the objects…
The Graduate Student: A Profile by Theodore Solotaroff Now that college education is becoming a commonplace in American life, the graduate student seems to have preempted what novelty…
“All that Cellar-Deep Jazz&rdquo by Theodore Solotaroff The times seem to have caught up with Henry Miller, not only in the sexual sophistication that permits the recent…
Revolutionary Road, by Richard Yates by Theodore Solotaroff I have a number of quarrels with "Revolutionary Road," but have only admiration for the way its author has turned…