A Poet of the Holocaust by Robert Alter The relation of Hebrew poetry to the Holocaust is a peculiar one, largely because many readers and some writers of…
Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks, by Donald Bogle; The Only Good Indian … The Hollywood Gospel, by Ralph and Natasha by Richard Schickel The distinctions between these two books are infinitely more important than their similarities.
Afterthoughts on the 20’s by John W. Aldridge The publication last spring of Malcolm Cowley's "A Second Flowering: Works and Days of the Lost Generation" has reopened a…
Travelers, by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala by Johanna Kaplan Ruth Prawer Jhabvala has written seven novels and three collections of short stories, yet she has remained relatively unknown in…
Two Conductors by B. H. Haggin The context I find necessary for an evaluation of Pierre Boulez and Michael Tilson Thomas begins with the remarkably perceptive…
Jews and the Tragic Sense by Frederick Plotkin Throughout its history, Judaism has been haunted by a dilemma--at whose door shall its troubles be laid?
Nostalgia and Adultery by William S. Pechter "Where were you in '62?" the ads for "American Graffiti" ask. Wherever I was I recall doing my best to…
On Soviet Dissidence by Lev Navrozov "The West, the West," my guest chimes, looking indolently on. "I was in the West." He likes our country house,…
SDS, by Kirkpatrick Sale by Carl Gershman In April 1967 someone at the National Office of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) came across a cartoon showing…
The Country and the City, by Raymond Williams by Alan Goldfein Early in The Country and the City Raymond Williams quotes a couplet by George Crabbe (from The Village, 1783): "No…
The Dialectical Imagination, by Martin Jay by Stanley Rothman On February 3, 1923 a decree of the Education Ministry marked the official creation of the Institut fir Sozialforschung (Institute…
The Idea of Fraternity in America, by Wilson Carey McWilliams by David Donald This enormous volume, "pretentious" and "intolerably long" by its author's admission, is really two distinct books bound together.
The Stalemate Society by Rudolf Klein At the beginning of this century, most people living in America worked with their hands, either in factories or on…
The Working Critic by Jack Richardson Since the publication, some thirty years ago, of "On Native Grounds," Alfred Kazin has been an important, working critic of…
To the Country by Bette Howland It so happens that my mother's oldest and dearest friend, Little Bertha, lives on a farm not ten miles from…
