Camping in the Wasteland by Neil Compton Since the birth of network television, autumn has been open season for the exercise of critical wit.
Forbidden Foods by Erich Isaac In the Bible, the word kasher (kosher) appears in reference to acts properly performed or deemed fitting, but it is…
In Praise of Guimaraes Rosa by Emir Rodriguez-Monegal Serious criticism of Latin American writers is still in its infancy in the United States. A tragic case in point…
Invitation to an Inquest, by Walter & Miriam Schneir by Commentary Bk "United States v. Julius and Ethel Rosenberg" wasn't the Dreyfus, the Mooney, the Sacco-Vanzetti case of the early 1950's. But…
Lincoln Center: Act II by Jack Richardson By now, even to those whose passion for the drama encompasses no more than an annual theater party, critical gossip…
Manchild in the Promised Land, by Claude Brown by George Dennison Claude Brown's story of growing up in Harlem deals at great length with juvenile crime, the life in the streets,…
Our Depleted Society, by Seymour Melman by Robert Lekachman As his previous writings document, Seymour Melman is no partisan of the military path to prosperity.
Testimony, by Charles Reznikoff by Milton Hindus It would be interesting to inquire why the classification of a man as a "Negro" writer or of Faulkner as…
The Accidental Century, by Michael Harrington by George Kateb This is a book of great ambitiousness. That it is only a qualified success can hardly be surprising.
The Arab Refugees: A Zionist View by Marie Syrkin If there is anything which can be said to trouble Americans sympathetic to Israel, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, it is…
The Golem of Prague & The Golem of Rehovoth by Gershom Scholem When, a year ago, Gershom Scholem, the foremost authority of our day on Jewish mysticism, heard that the Weizmann Institute…
Vacuum Diplomacy by George Lichtheim This spring it will be twenty years since Winston Churchill, in his Fulton address of March 12, 1946, officially inaugurated…
