The Child by Commentary Bk ON MY way through the park I saw you playing one second. Watching you, your father Reads "Family Times of…
The Study of Man: Bible and Babel by Jacob J. Finkelstein ONE of the most absorbing aspects of the study of the civilizations of the ancient Near East, and especially of…
Algeria: The Realities, by Germaine Tillion by Joel Carmichael ONE of the subtler successes of Leninism has been the gradual permeation of the left intelligentsia by the slogan, "The…
An American Fairy TaleA Story by Delmore Schwartz THIS is a fairy tale. And it is a success story. It is a story which is not only full…
Critique of Religion and Philosophy, by Walter Kaufmann by Commentary Bk SOME future cultural historian may write a monumental study of the pervasive image of the "doctor" in present-day intellectual expression.…
Eisenhower as President:A Critical Appraisal of the Record by William V. Shannon ACROSS a divided and militarily defenseless Europe, the shadow of Stalin's armies fell; in Korea, Communist Chinese forces pushed American…
Generation of Decision, by Sol Liptzin by Israel Knox PROFESSOR LIPTZIN'S book is part history, part literary summation, but it is above all a political tract. Its thesis, insofar…
Gimpel the Fool and Other Stories, by Isaac Bashevis Singer by Kenneth Rexroth RECENTLY I was working in a night club below Cooper Union. I had been out of New York for many…
I Sell My House:One Man's Experience with Suburban Segregation by Alan Wood UNLIKE most of the families who bought a "resale" in North Shore Community Homes, we had no relatives living there.…
Is There An “Arab Civilization”?Islam and Arabism by A. G. Horon ISLAM arose in Arabia. But from the ethnographic standpoint Arabia proper comprised at first only the Nejd and the Hejaz,…
Poems of a Jew, by Karl Shapiro by Irving Feldman IT IS disappointing to find the rather dramatic title of this collection of poems and its short introductory essay, in…
T. S. Eliot’s Stature as Critic:A Revaluation by F. R. Leavis HOW can a book of criticism be at once so distinguished and so unimportant? The question is the more worth…
The Child by Commentary Bk ON MY way through the park I saw you playing one second. Watching you, your father Reads "Family Times of…
The Jews of Rhodes:A Centuries-Old Community in Retrospect by Richard Galan THE Colossus of Rhodes was probably not very appealing as a work of art-no more than the Statue of Liberty,…
The New United Nations:What It Can't and Can Do by Hans J. Morgenthau IN TRYING to assess the contribution the United Nations makes today, and might be able to make tomorrow, to the…
The South and the Law of the Land:The Present Resistance and Its Prospects by C. Vann Woodward THE annual fall maneuvers have left the school desegregation front very little altered in the Border States and the Upper…
Toward the Automatic Factory, by Charles R. Walker by Arnold M. Rose THE automatic factory was already known in the 18th century, but it was only with its extension into many lines…
Two Poems About Ezra Pound by Dannie Abse Paul Potts I HAVE waited to ask you this. I could not ask you in prison. I waited until you…