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Charlie Chaplin and His Times Kenneth S. Lynn Simon & Schuster / 604 pages / $35 REVIEWED BY John R. Dunlap I n his later years, Charlie Chaplin liked to say that The Gold Rush (1925) was the...

American Arts and Letters /Hung-Up Henry (September 1994)

Hung-Up Henry by Kenneth S. Lynn p rofessor Hobson's book is the outcome of years of work by a conscientious scholar. I No earlier biography of Mencken is nearly as informative. At the same time,...

American Arts and Letters / Dwight Stuff (June 1994)

Dwight Stuff by Kenneth S. Lynn young girls with orthodontia. Or the Muscovites now walking around with buttons reading: "Want to lose weight? Ask me how." While the average life expectancy for...

American Lives and Letters/Life With Lionel (February 1994)

AMERICAN LIVES AND LETTERS Life With Lionel by Kenneth S. Lynn T he New York intellectuals of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s were "overbearing and arrogant, excessively competitive; they lacked...

American Lives and Letters/Edith Wharton's Abuser (December 1993)

Edith Wharton's Abuser by Kenneth S. Lynn artin Scorsese's version of M Edith Wharton's portrait of post–Civil War New York society in The Age of Innocence opens with a scene at the opera in...

American Lives and Letters / Bobby Kennedy's Crying Game (October 1993)

0 n the eve of the thirtieth anniversary of Jack Kennedy's death, the mythic conception of him as a president who "gave his country back to its best self," as Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. writes in...

Spectator's Journal / Castroville (July 1993)

and the usual horde of Americans. A visitor from the East looks around and asks how the protest is going; in the spirit of the day it is explained that the boycott, like the Rapture, is expected by...

Vladimir Nabokov: The American Years, by Brian Boyd (October 1991)

BOOK REVIEWS At the end of May 1940, three weeks before the German tanks rolled into Paris, 41-year-old Vladimir Nabokov, his wife Vera, and their six-year-old son Dmitri were at last able to flee...

Hemingway (January 1988)

veryone knows Ernest Hemingway. Or, at least, they think they do. It is hardly possible not to, for Hemingway is one of the inescapable presences of our century, a combative, swaggering,...

The Air-Line to Seattle (November 1983)

THE AIR-LINE TO SEATTLE Kenneth S. Lynn / University of Chicago Press/ $17.50 Terry Eastland Do not be misled by the subtitle of this collection of articles originally published in Commentary and...

Academia/ After the Debauch (December 1982)

dollars in damages. It will not be long before the outcomes of Superbowl and World Series games are held up until some federal judge rules on a contested game-decision. As the judiciary has...

Malcolm Cowley Forgets (October 1980)

"Malcolm Cowley Forgets" Kenneth S. Lynn Dear sweet old Malcolm,...

Books for Christmas (December 1979)

BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS Holiday gift suggestions from some of the writers whose books would top our own list of recommendations. WILLIAM J. BENNETT Director, National Humanities Center; co-author of...

Lyons, Donald