Counting Jews by Ruth Gay Travel has been, as we know, a constant, if not always voluntary feature of Jewish life. And the voluntary voyages…
Block That Cult! by William S. Pechter "Wild Rovers." William Holden. The waning of the old style cowboy cum bank-robber. The heroes bathing together, and affectionately dallying…
Bryan by Louis W. Koenig by Wilson Carey McWilliams Louis Koenig's biography of William Jennings Bryan is more than the effort to rehabilitate a man; it is a struggle…
Confessions of a Visiting Professor by Dan Jacobson Of course, we are all anti-Americans nowadays. So what is there to confess? What is there to say that hasn't…
Counting Jews by Ruth Gay Travel has been, as we know, a constant, if not always voluntary feature of Jewish life. And the voluntary voyages…
How Castro Failed by Norman Gall A Spanish colonial governor of Cuba once said, in the midst of a series of 19th-century slave revolts, that the…
Jewish Ceremonial Art and Religious Observance, by Abram Kanof; The Horned Moses in Medieval Thought, by Ruth Mellinkoff by Edouard Roditi Of the production of art books in recent years there seems to be no end. Among their constantly growing number,…
Liberty & the Intellectuals by Norman Podhoretz "There can be no question that Norman Gall (p. 45) is right in saying that the 'literary reputation' of the…
Los Angeles, by Reyner Banham by Richard Schickel The problem has always been rationalizing one's basic, and essentially visceral, liking for the place. I mean, it's just not…
Malraux’s Fate by Renee Winegarten If only Chateaubriand had visited Napoleon in exile on St. Helena, what a book would have resulted! Unlike General de…
On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover and Other Stories, by Tess Slesinger by Commentary Bk The tick of domestic conscience, the blank reassurance, the falling back into routine, belongs to Mrs. Ramsay in "To the…
The (Freudian) Congress of Vienna by Edith Kurzweil In July of 1971, the psychoanalysts returned to Vienna thirty-three years after Freud had left his native city. They came…
