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Books In Review The Cracked Vessel George Kennan: diplomat, misanthrope, diarist. The Kennan Diaries Edited by Frank Costigliola (Norton, 768 pages, $39.95) Reviewed by Joseph Epstein The...
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Books In Review The Heart of the Heartland The Selected Letters of Willa Cather Edited by Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout (Knopf, 752 pages, $37.50) Reviewed by Joseph Spstein Willa Cather's...
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PLAUSIBLE PREJUDICES: ESSAYS ON AMERICAN WRITING Joseph Epstein/W.W. Norton/$17.95 George Sim Johnston Viewing the overproduction of books and pamphlets in his own day, Samuel Johnson complained...
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search of the kind Masmy has undertaken, and, less directly, from what Soviet scholars like Sivachev and Yakovlev choose to emphasize or ignore. What both approaches reveal, above all else,...
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