America, Rome, and the Bourgeoisie by William S. Pechter The "Emigrants" is an almost three-hour-long Swedish saga about a mid-19th-century migration of peasants to America, made by a director,…
America, Rome, and the Bourgeoisie by William S. Pechter The "Emigrants" is an almost three-hour-long Swedish saga about a mid-19th-century migration of peasants to America, made by a director,…
Amphigorey; The Awdrey-Gore Legacy, by Edward Gorey by John Hollander The recent rise of the picture book has paradoxically come about as a result of the decline of book illustration…
August 1914; The Nobel Lecture on Literature, by Alexander Solzhenitsyn by Robert Conquest Since "August 1914" is only part of a larger work, and so perhaps not susceptible of ready judgment, it may…
Dayan as Politician by Hillel Halkin Dayan's credentials seem authentic enough. But the clincher, of course, is that piratical eye-patch. To make off with such a…
Defaming the Jews by Robert Alter Some cliches become so hallowed by usage that they can serve as a cover for the worst kinds of crassness…
Lords of the Press by Rudolf Klein The mass media and their masters, the men who control the largecirculation press and television, exert a peculiar, half-guilty fascination…
Money, the Job, and Little Women by Ellen Moers All of Jane Austen's opening paragraphs, and the best of her first sentences, have money in them; this may be…
Somewhere Else, by Robert Kotlowitz by David Stern Robert Kotlowitz's first novel tells a story which in its every aspect is commonplace.
The Cold War According to Kennan by Adam B. Ulam In August 1950 George F. Kennan went on indefinite leave from the State Department. His decision to do so seemed…
The Election and the National Mood by Earl Raab The reasons underlying Senator McGovern's defeat in the 1972 elections had been thoroughly analyzed long before the polls opened on…
The Intellectuals and the Powers and Other Essays, by Edward Shils by James Q. Wilson The great tradition of Western sociological thought has been preoccupied, not with the family, small groups, occupations, or any of…
What the Voters Sensed by Norman Podhoretz "Among the more puzzling questions arising from an analysis of the election returns like the one by Seymour Martin Lipset…
Where the Wasteland Ends, by Theodore Roszak by Alan Goldfein When Theodore Roszak wrote his popular "The Making of a Counter Culture" back in 1969, he may have been partial…
