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AuthorBeals, Carelton
AuthorBeals, Carleton
AuthorBEARD, CHARLES A.
AuthorBEARD, Prof. CHARLES A.
AuthorBECK, CURT
AuthorBeck, Elmer A.
AuthorBEDAU, HUGO ADAM
AuthorBeebee
AuthorBEECH, OSCAR STEFANI and ALEXANDRA
AuthorBeedie, William
AuthorBeffel, John Nicholas
AuthorBEICHMAN, ARNOLD
AuthorBEISER, VINCE
AuthorBelfer, Nathan
AuthorBELKNAP, ROBERT
AuthorBELL, AARON
AuthorBELL, DAMEL
AuthorBELL, DANIEI
AuthorBELL, DANIEL
AuthorBELL, MADISON
AuthorBELL, PEAL K.
AuthorBELL, PEARL K
AuthorBELL, PEARL K.
Paid articleThe Grand Tour: 1977 (May 1977)
THE GRAND TOUR: 1977 BY PEARL K. BELL In the past month I have been traveling in Israel, Greece and Italy, and I am not at all certain that travel —in the old-fashioned sense of going somewhere...
Paid articleLetter from London (December 1976)
Christmas Book Issue LETTER FROM LONDON BY PEARL K. BELL BY now it is hardly news in the United States or anywhere else that England is in a bad way, with all the alarming signs of crisis...
Paid articleIn Praise of Lionel Trilling (May 1976)
IN PRAISE OF LIONEL TRILLING BY PEARL K. BELL LIONEL Trilling is for me the only contemporary critic who, as he wrote in 1944 of E.M. Forster, "can be read again and again and who, after each...
Paid articleA Dance Completed (May 1976)
Writers & Writing A DANCE COMPLETED BY PEARL K. BELL 1951, Anthony Powell opened A Question of Upbringing-the first volume of a vast undertaking to be called A Dance to the Music of Time-with a...
Paid articleFemale Chauvinism (April 1976)
Writers & Writing FEMALE CHAUVINISM BY PEARL K. BELL There is an air of hectic dishevelment about Ellen Moers' Literary Women {Doubleday, 336 pp., $10), making me suspect that she set out to...
Paid articleIdylls of the Tribe (April 1976)
Writers & Writing IDYLLS OF THE TRIBE BY PEARL K. BELL On the assumption that literature cannot be both lucid and profound, many modern writers actively seek to mystify their readers. In the...
Paid articleThis Rough Magic (March 1976)
Writers & Writing THIS ROUGH MAGIC By PEARL K. BELL THE critic Northrop Frye, whose intellectual influence by now extends far beyond Canada's borders, has shrewdly explained the chronic sense...
Paid articleHypocrites and Tortoises (March 1976)
Writers & Writing HYPOCRITES AND TORTOISES BY PEARL K. BELL WHATEVER happened to those strident Lelchuks of the 1960s, the bearded radical professors in tailored blue jeans who turned every class...
Paid articleThe Past Recaptured (March 1976)
Writers & Writing THE PAST RECAPTURED BY PEARL K. BELL In 1882, the year he arrived in America with 40 rubles in his pocket, Abraham Cahan unburdened his heart in a letter to a Russian newspaper:...
Paid articleF. R. Leavis and the Grating Tradition (February 1976)
Writers & Writing F.R. LEAVIS AND THE GRATING TRADITION BY PEARL K. BELL A At the age of 80 F. R. Leavis, England's most contentious literary critic for more than half a century, remains bloody...
Paid articleInside the 'Workers' Utopia' (February 1976)
Writers & Writing INSIDE THE "WORKERS' UTOPIA" BY PEARL K. BELL Among the dozens of bitter Soviet jokes that Hedrick Smith, chief of the New York Times' Moscow bureau from 1971-74, tells in his...
Paid articleTales of Derring-Don't (January 1976)
Writers & Writing TALES OF DERRING-DON'T BY PEARL K. BELL One doesn't hear much these days about that old chestnut "the death of the novel," and this can be counted among our few blessings....
Paid articleBoys Will Be Boys (January 1976)
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Paid articleDead Endings (December 1975)
Writers & Writing DEAD ENDINGS BY PEARL K. BELL V.S. Naipaul, born to an Indian family in Trinidad and educated in England, has drawn the central theme of his novels—displacement and exile?from...
Paid articleSinging the Entropy Blues (December 1975)
SINGING THE ENTROPY BLUES BY PEARL K. BELL Christmas Book Issue Toward the close of William Gaddis's new novel JR (Knopf, 726 pp., hardcover $15.00, paperback $5.95), it occurred to me that in...
Paid articleAn Epic of India (September 1975)
Writers & Writing AN EPIC OF INDIA BY PEARL K. BELL WHEN IT IS remembered that the British presence in India persisted for some 300 years, beginning with the 17th-century toehold of the East...
Paid articleThe Literary Legacy of World War I (October 1975)
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Paid articleThe Sardonic and the Sentimental (October 1975)
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Paid articleThe Unknown Edith Wharton (September 1975)
Writers & Writing THE UNKNOWN EDITH WHARTON BY PEARL K. BELL In 1947, Edmund Wilson ended a deservedly harsh review of Portrait of Edith Wharton, by her quondam British friend Percy Lubbock, with...
Paid articleBellow's Best and Worst (September 1954)
Writers & Writing BELLOWS BEST AND WORST BY PEARL K. BELL The great novelist is one who is willing to take intellectual risks, daring to impose his own uniquely wrought order on the offerings of...
Paid articleModern Victoriana (August 1975)
Writers & Writing MODERN VICTORIANA BY PEARL K. BELL The comfortable pomp and cluttered circumstance of Victoria's England-so close to us in historical time, so many light-years distant in...
Paid articleThe Private Thomas Mann (July 1975)
Writers & Writing THE PRIVATE THOMAS MANN BY PEARL K. BELL The stern, forbidding image of Thomas Mann the man has always seemed curiously separate from the imaginative and intellectual presence...
Paid articleSteiner's Synoptic Flop (June 1975)
Writers & Writing STEINER'S SYNOPTIC FLOP BY PEARL K. BELL A Among present-day literary critics, few can match George Steiner in erudition and sweep. Actually, he resists confinement within...
Paid articleElusive Perfection (June 1975)
Writers & Writing ELUSIVE PERFECTION BY PEARL K. BELL "A novel," Randall Jarrell once wrote (and his definition has a certain reckless wisdom), "is a prose narrative of some length that has...
Paid articlePoets of Our Times (May 1975)
POETS OF OUR TIMES BY PEARL K. BELL Surveying the tower of recently published volumes of poetry, I was almost tempted to conclude that there is today a vastly enlarged public for the work of...
Paid articleCharmed Lives (May 1975)
Writers & Writing CHARMED LIVES BY PEARL K. BELL By coincidence, two radically dissimilar English autobiographies have been published simultaneously in America this spring: one by Gerald Brenan,...
Paid articleRude Realities (April 1975)
RUDE REALITIES BY PEARL K. BELL George V. Higgins, a former Assistant U.S. Attorney General in Massachusetts, is one smart cookie. Beginning in 1972 with a sleeper, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, and...
Paid articleNo Garland for Judy (April 1975)
Writers & Writing NO GARLAND FOR JUDY BY PEARL K. BELL Six years after Judy Garland's death in the summer of 1969, at the age of 47, her monumentally appalling life has publishers falling over...
Paid articleConfronting Hateful Legacies (March 1975)
Writers & Writing CONFRONTING HATEFUL LEGACIES by pearl k. bell Nothing in Nadine Gordimer's earlier work- five admirable novels and five volumes of short stories dealing mainly with her native...
Paid articleNew York as Home (March 1975)
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Paid articleOrdering Lives (March 1975)
Writers & Writing ORDERING LIVES BY PEARL K. BELL Claire Tomalin's The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 316 pp., $8.95) is the most recent account of the prickly...
Paid articleThe Art of Seeing (February 1975)
Writers & Writing THE ART OF SEEING BY PEARL K.BELL IT is rather a pity that Eleanor Clark's gathering of her short fiction written between 1937 and the present, Dr. Heart: A Novella & Other...
Paid articleThe Intimate Byron (February 1975)
Writers & Writing THE INTIMATE BYRON by pearl k. bell ho today reads Byron? Apart from undergraduates forced to keep up with the assignments in Romantic-literature courses, or poets—another and...
Paid articleDesperate Characters (January 1975)
Writers & Writing DESPERATE CHARACTERS BY PEARL K. BELL In Diane Johnson's remarkable new novel, The Shadow Knows (Knopf. 227 pp., $6.95), we are told nothing whatever about the heroine's...
Paid articleLost in the Land of Oz (January 1975)
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Paid articleBlack Magic (December 1974)
Writers & Writing BLACK MAGIC BY PEARL K. BELL Unlike most black writers today, whose novels and autobiographical testaments are firebombs meant to reduce susceptible white liberal readers to...
Paid articleUnreal City (November 1974)
Writers &Writing UNREAL CITY BY PEARL K BELL Urban existence in the second half of the 20th century, becoming daily more dirty, deprived, uncomfortable, expensive, and menacing, has few...
Paid articleHeller's Trial by Tedium (October 1974)
Writers & Writing HELLER'S TRIAL BY TEDIUM BY PEARL K BELL The plight of the American writer faced with the terrifying necessity of writing a second and different novel, after reaping the lush...
Paid articleOut of the Provinces (September 1974)
Writers & Writing OUT OF THE PROVINCES by pearl k bell T M hough the British novelists Arnold Bennett and George Gissing were more or less Edwardian contemporaries—Gissing was born in 1857,...
Paid articleThe Overblown and the Overlooked (September 1974)
Writers & Writing THE OVERBLOWN AND THE OVERLOOKED by pearl k. bell The most irritating literary event of 1974 occurred this summer with the publication of Alison Lurie's fifth novel in a dozen...
Paid articleSex Under Socialism (August 1974)
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Paid articleAnglophiles and Americaphobes (July 1974)
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Paid articleExile's Revenge (June 1974)
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Paid articleBlacks and the Blues (May 1974)
BLACKS AND THE BLUES BY PEARL K. BELL In 1949, early in his career, James Baldwin published a now legendary essay, "Everybody's Protest Novel," in which he took a stand that at the time was...
Paid articleA Surfeit of Sex (May 1974)
Writers & Writing A SURFEIT OF SEX BY PEARL K. BELL t n ancient Freudian days—say, 15 years ago, before the acid-rock blare of the emancipated '60s drowned out the reticent cautions of the...
Paid articleFacts-Fatal and Fertile (April 1974)
Writers & Writing FACTS-FATAL AND FERTILE BY PEARL K. BELL o n the evidence of a pair of recent offerings —Joseph Blotner's Faulkner: A Biography (Random House, 2 vols., $25) and Wallace...
Paid articleThe Gift of Metamorphosis (April 1974)
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Paid articleThe Artist as Hero (March 1974)
Writer & writing THE ARTIST AS HERO BY PEARL K. BELL T o our great surprise, four novelists have recently published books whose central character is an artist. I say surprise because the...
Paid articleThe Fatal Disease of Ireland (February 1974)
Writers & Writing THE FATAL DISEASE OF IRELAND BY PEARL K. BELL Holy Hibernia, another book about Roger Casement! Even the Irish must by now find the flood of words devoted to the martyred...
Paid articleA Woman of Letters (February 1974)
Writers & Writing A WOMAN OF LETTERS BY PEARL K. BELL Why don't people write serious literary letters any more? In the light of a beautiful new book, What the Woman Lived: Selected Letters of...
Paid articleA Voice from Down Under (January 1974)
Writers & Writing A VOICE FROM DOWN UNDER BY PEARL K BELL PATRICK WHITE, the Australian writer who recently won the Nobel Prize lor Literature, may well be unique Almost invariably, Australians...
Paid articleBeyond the Fashionable (January 1974)
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Paid articleFidgety Feminism (December 1973)
Writers & Writing FIDGETY FEMINISM BY PEARL K. BELL EARLY IN 1971 Jane Howard, then a 35-year-old staff writer for Life, undertook a formidable self-assigned task: to interview a large variety of...
Paid articleThe Politics of Russian Poetry (December 1973)
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Paid articleMasterful Music and Muddled Magjc (November 1973)
Writers & Writing MASTERFUL MUSIC AND MUDDLED MAGIC BY PEARL K. BELL At a time when so much new fiction reads as though it had been pounded out on a supersonic electric portable between a late...
Paid articleStudies in Disillusionment (November 1973)
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Paid articleOf Mollusks and Men (October 1973)
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Paid articleSinners and Saints (October 1973)
Writers &Writing SINNERS AND SAINTS BY PEARL K. BELL In a recent article, the British writer Colm Brogan tells a sharply revealing story about Graham Greene. At a London dinner years ago, Brogan...
Paid articleFather Chesterton (October 1973)
Winters Writing FATHER CHESTERTON BY PEARL K. BELL Although it is something of a literary oddity, a mild but unquestionable G. K. Chesterton revival is currently going on. Not long ago, W. H....
Paid articleRacing Through the Century (September 1973)
Writers &Writing RACING THROUGH THE CENTURY BY PEARL K. BELL As the Welsh novelist Richard Hughes informs us in the preface, The Wooden Shepherdess (Harper & Row, 389 pp., $7.50) is "the...
Paid articleHow Lorca Died (September 1973)
Writers & Writings HOW LORCa DIED by pearl k. bell In 1950 the British writer Gerald Brenan, who has spent most of his adult life in andalusia and knows Spain as few foreigners can hope to,...
Paid articleFrom Brooklyn and the Bronx (August 1973)
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Paid articleFrom Oedipus to Marx to Freud (July 1973)
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Paid articleThe Red and the Black (July 1973)
Writers & Writing THE RED AND THE BLACK BY PEARL K. BELL Although the tragic encounter of Indian and white has been a primordial fact of the American experience from its earliest beginnings, only...
Paid articleThe Lost and Found Generation (June 1973)
Writers &Wfriting THE LOST AND FOUND GENERATION BY PEARL K. BELL the half-century since he produced his first literary essay on "This Youngest Generation," Malcolm Cowley has been writing essays...
Paid articlePortraits of Two Ladies (June 1973)
Writers &Wfating PORTRAITS OF TWO LADIES by pearl k. bell T M he European generation that reached early adulthood during World War II is now approaching the crest of middle age; and the threats...
Paid articleTransient Pleasures (May 1973)
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Paid articleThe Uses and Abuses of Criticism (May 1973)
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Paid articleOedipal Poetics (April 1973)
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Paid articleThe Real Macaulay (April 1973)
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Paid articlePynchon's Road of Excess (April 1973)
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Paid articleNuggets of Gold amid the Dross (March 1973)
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Paid articleNewsmen's Novels (March 1973)
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Paid articleSterile Diversions (February 1973)
Writers & Writing STERILE DIVERSIONS BY PEARL K. BELL Just as Ford Madox Ford's tragic The Good Soldier has been called a French novel written in English, one might better understand Michel...
Paid articleTales of Two Women (February 1973)
Writers & Writing TALES OF TWO WOMEN BY PEARL K. BELL l n the engaging novels and stories that she has published over the last decade, the Irish writer Edna O'Brien has brought a special charm to...
Paid articleThe Porn Is Green (January 1973)
Writer & Writing THE PORN IS GREEN BY PEARL K. BELL From all the advance hoopla, it is clear that the Great American Novel of 1973 will be Alan Lel-chuk's American Mischief (Farrar, Straus &...
Paid articleThe Fin on the Sea (January 1973)
Writers & Writing THE FIN ON THE SEA BY PEARL K. BELL What in the world is there left to say about Virginia Woolf? She is a redoubtable presence in dozens of British autobiographies, in the...
Paid articleOf Myths and Men (December 1972)
Writers & Writing OF MYTHS AND MEN BY PEARL K. BELL John Gardner is a professor of Old and Middle English at Southern Illinois University, and in an earlier, well-received novel, Grendel, based...
Paid articleA Neglected Master (December 1972)
Writers &Writing A NEGLECTED MASTER BY PEARL K. BELL For many years before Christina Stead's great novel The Man Who Loved Children was reissued in 1965, a quarter of a century after it first...
Paid articlePale Nabokov (November 1972)
Writers & Writing PALE NABOKOV BY PEARL K. BELL When Vladimir Nabokov's ambitious novel Ada was published three years ago, he told a reporter, with characteristically witty immodesty, "I have...
Paid articleUnderstanding the Past (November 1972)
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Paid articleThe Unmaking of a Gentleman (October 1972)
Writers & Writing THE UNMAKING OF A GENTLEMAN BY PEARL K. BELL Tn this last will and testament Eric Blair—who signed his first book, Don n and Out in Paris and London, with the hastily...
Paid articleIt's a Wise Child (October 1972)
Writers & Writing IT'S A WISE CHILD BY PEARL K BELL Little could James Joyce have foreseen the avalanche of cliche he was setting rn motion when he began A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man...
Paid articleSolzhenitsyn Grappling with History (October 1972)
Writers & Writing SOLZHENITSYN GRAPPLING WITH HISTORY BY PEARL K. BELL Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1970 mainly for three novels that grew directly out of his cruelly...
Paid articleSwiftian Swami (September 1972)
Writers &\tyHting SWIFTIAN SWAMI BY PEARL K. BELL George Woodcock's study of Aldous Huxley, Dawn and the Darkest Hour (Viking, 299 pp., $7.95), is intellectual biography at its best: intelligent,...
Paid articleA Critic's Epitaph (September 1972)
Writers & Writing A CRITIC'S EPITAPH BY PEARL K. BELL It is unsettling to read Edmund Wilson's A Window on Russia (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 280 pp., $7.95) so soon after his death in June. This...
Paid articleOut of the Ivory Tower (August 1972)
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Paid article"O das Alter!" (June 1972)
Writers & Writing 'ODAS ALTER!' BY PEARL K. BELL Simone de Beauvoir has set herself an uncommonly demanding task in The Coming of Age (Putnam, 585 pp., $10.00)—a stupidly misleading...
Paid articleHorseman of the Apocalypse (June 1972)
Writers &Writing HORSEMAN OF THE APOCALYPSE BY PEARL K. BELL It has been almost 10 years since James Baldwin flung down the gauntlet before America with his intemperate, agonized and chilling...
Paid articleFalling Snow (May 1972)
Writers & Writing FALLING SNOW BY PEARL K. BELL One of the stranger anomalies of contemporary writing is the paucity of first-rate political novels. Though our age is one of bitter and...
Paid articleMishima's Apotheosis (May 1972)
MISHIMA'S APOTHEOSIS BY PEARL K. BELL YUKIO MISHIMA'S Spring Snow (Knopf, 464 pp , $7 95) is the first volume of the tetralogy which the 45-year-old Japanese writer finished a few hours before he...
Paid articleA Question of Credibility (May 1972)
Writers & Writing A QUESTION OF CREDIBILITY BY PEARL K BELL Though less than half ot 1972 has flowed out to oblivion, I strongly doubt that the year will see a more embarrassingly bad piece of...
Paid articleHenry James: The Triumph of Leon Edel (April 1972)
Writers & Writing HENRY JAMES: THE TRIUMP OF LEON EDEL BY PEARL K. BELL when The Treacherous Years, the fourth volume of Leon Edel's majestic biography of Henry James, appeared in England three...
Paid articleWomen Cast Adrift (March 1972)
Writers & Writing WOMEN CAST ADRIFT BY PEARL K. BELL Half a lifetime ago, Jean Rhys proved herself a novelist of rare and penetrating insight into the phenomenon of modern woman, free and uneasy...
Paid articleColical and Comical Criticism (March 1972)
Writers & Writing COLICAL AND COMICAL CRITICISM BY PEARL K. BELL From the start of his literary career in 1951, when he devoted After the Lost Generation to systematically puncturing the inflated...
Paid articleThree Not So Ladylike Novelists (February 1972)
Writers & Writing THREE NOT SO LADYLIKE NOVELISTS BY PEARL K BELL Does anyone remember that only 16 years ago Mary McCarthy was considered extremely daring because in an otherwise merely feline...
Paid articleIsherwood Remembers Mama (January 1972)
Writers & Writing ISHERWOOD REMEMBERS MAMA by PEARL K. BELL Some writers, no matter how long they may actually have lived, have a way of seeming fixed at a specific age. T.S. Eliot is always 40...
Paid articleThe Poverty of Poetry (January 1972)
Writers&Writing THE POVERTY OF POETRY BY PEARL K. BELL If some of the poets I've been reading in the past few weeks could switch off their tape recorders long enough to examine Paul Goodman's...
Paid articleHistorical Whodunit (December 1971)
HISTORICAL WHODUNIT BY PEARL K BELL Caveat lectoi On first looking into Herman Wouk's Homenc-sized novel. The Winds of Wat (Little, Brown, 885 pp , $10 00), let the reader beware Meals will be...
Paid articleCreeping Gobbledygook (December 1971)
Christmas Book Issue CREEPING GOBBLEDYGOOK BY PEARL K. BELL Never in academic history has there been a more obsessive interest in the study of language??what it is, how human beings learn to...
Paid articleWaxing Wroth (November 1971)
Writers & Writing WAXING WROTH BY PEARL K BELL Contrary to popular relief, not all Satire is funny or meant to be—who could possibly laugh at Swift's nauseated portrait of the Yahoos9 But in...
Paid articleMorality Tale Without Mercy (October 1971)
Writers & Writing MORALITY TALE WITHOUT MERCY BY PEARL K BELL LIKE THE BEST of his earlier novels, Bernard Mala-mud's The Tenants (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 230 pp , $6.95) is a morality tale...
Paid articleDull Decay and Exuberant Comedy (October 1971)
writer & Writing DULL DECAY AND EXUBERANT COMEDY BY PEARL K. BELL IN THE MORE THAN 20 years since the appearance of John Hawkes' powerfully original first novel, The Cannibal, a brilliantly...
Paid articleRejecting Greatness (September 1971)
Writers & Writing REJECTING GREATNESS BY PEARL K. BELL A NOVELIST LIKE Graham Greene makes critics uncomfortable. How does he manage to write about such enigmatic and disorderly human problems as...
Paid articleA Hard Look at Flabby Thought (September 1971)
Writers & Writing A HARD LOOK AT FLABBY THOUGHT BY PEARL K. BELL SCARCELY A DAY GOES BY in the press without some banal reprise of the self-congratulatory mea culpa: The middle-class American...
Paid articleIrish Types and Stereotypes (August 1971)
Writers & Writing IRISH TYPES AND STEREOTYPES BY PEARL K. BELL FROM ITS TITLE, The Onion Eaters, to the last of its witless scatological buffooneries, J. P. Donleavy's new novel (Delacorte, 306...
Paid articleThe Dead and the Dying (July 1971)
Writers & Writing THE DEAD AND THE DYING BY PEARL K. BELL THAT WE LIVE in a time of hysterical devotion to the present, loud with the carpe diem of the swingers, is only one reason I want to send...
Paid articleGuilt on Trial (June 1971)
Writers & Writing GUILT ON TRIAL BY PEARL K. BELL IN HIS REVIEW of Bernard Malamud's The Fixer, Mordecai Richler remarked: "These days it's not very risky to be a Jew. It is, however, becoming...
Paid articleMarking Time (June 1971)
Writers & Writing MARKING TIME BY PEARL K. BELL A CASUAL GLANCE at the jacket copy for Richard B. Wright's impressive first novel, The Weekend Man (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 247 pp., $6.95), could...
Paid articleThree Self-Images (May 1971)
Writers & Writing THREE SELF-IMAGES BY PEARL K. BELL MEN WRITE AUTOBIOGRAPHIES for reasons that are as multifarious and varied as their faces, a truism borne out with particular force by three...
Paid articleHollywood's Siren Song (May 1971)
Spring Book HOLLYWOOD'S SIREN SONG BY PEARL K. BELL WHEN DANIEL FUCHS' three novels of Brooklyn (Summer in Williamsburg, Homage to Blen-holt and Low Company), which he had written as a young man...
Paid articleAn Eminent Edwardian (May 1971)
Writers & Writing AN EMINENT EDWARDIAN BY PEARL K. BELL Ford Madox Ford was only 65 when he died in Deauvilie in 1939, but his life and career spanned so vast a spectrum of literary history that...
Paid articleDoris Lessing's Auld Laing Syne (April 1971)
Writers & Writing DORIS LESSING'S AULD LAING SYNE BY PEARL K. BELL Doris Lessing"s new book. Briefing for a Descent Into Hell (Knopf, 308 pp., $6.95), is not a novel but a tract, and a...
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Writers & Writing SLOGGING THROUGH A SAHARA BY PEARL K. BELL It seems a simple rule, but in fact it is not: A serious novel that leaves its reader unchanged, though his mind may for a while...
Paid articleFiction in a Vacuum (March 1971)
Writers & Writing FICTION IN A VACUUM BY PEARL K. BELL In an essay written a few years ago for the reissue of Christina Stead's neglected masterpiece, The Man Who Loved Children, Randall Jarrell...
Paid articleBlood and Sand (March 1971)
Writers & Writing BLOOD AND SAND BY PEARL K. BELL James Jones, ex-soldier in the Regular Army, ex-Midwestern boozer and battler, and for more than a decade a fat-cat expatriate on the He...
Paid articleThe Power and the Vainglory (February 1971)
Writers & Writing THE POWER AND THE VAINGLORY BY PEARL K. BELL Some drumbeaters of postmodernism insist that there is no longer any valid distinction between novel-writing and journalism. Yet...
Paid articleA Curious Grudgery (January 1971)
Writers & Writing A CURIOUS GRUDGERY BY PEARL K. BELL The recently departed year could easily remain unlamented and uncelebrated for many reasons, but it did have one literary distinction: It...
Paid articleZuckmayer and Company (January 1971)
Writers & Writing ZUCKMAYER AND COMPANY BY PEARL K. BELL OCCASIONALLY IN the course of reading an autobiography I have felt the writer walk magically out of the flat black-and-white pages of...
Paid articleValley of the Stone Dolls (December 1970)
Christmas Book Issue VALLEY OF THE STONE DOLLS BY PEARL K. BELL The New Feminism has been growing both in numbers and in embattled intensity since about 1966, when Betty Friedan, that tireless...
Paid articlePoetry Without Hope (November 1970)
Writers & Writing POETRY WITHOUT HOPE BY PEARL K. BELL One of the curious and significant things about the poetry books being published this fall and winter is that many of them rely heavily for...
Paid articleA Time for Silence (November 1970)
Writers & Writing A TIME FOR SILENCE BY PEARL K. BELL At 32, Joyce Carol Oates has produced four long novels, three short-story collections, two not-so-slim volumes of poetry and, at latest...
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Waiters & Writing MR. KEATS LAYS IT ON WITH A TROWEL BY PEARL K. BELL "Mr. Lewis Lays It on with a Trowel," read the headline to one of the sparkling columns Dorothy Parker, as "Constant Reader,"...
Paid articleHemingway's Abortive Resurrection (October 1970)
Writers & Writing HEMINGWAY'S ABORTIVE RESURRECTION BY PEARL K. BELL In all his work, good and bad, the essence of Hemingway's world was the hero, the man inspired to sudden, life-giving...
Paid articleA Tough Act to Follow (September 1970)
Writers & Writing A TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW by pearl k. bell Let me admit from the start my adoration of Kingsley Amis. In the 18 years since the irrecoverably perfect pleasure of reading Lucky Jim...
Paid articleAuden's Omnium-Gatherum (September 1970)
Writers & Writing AUDEN'S OMNIUMGATHERUM BY PEARL K. BELL In the 18th and 19th centuries, educated persons, and those with pretensions to learning, kept so-called commonplace books in which...
Paid articleMeasuring Up to Forster (June 1970)
Writers & Writing MEASURING UP TO FORSTER BY PEARL K. BELL In one of those concurrences that no longer seem to surprise (for they have such an odd logic of their own), E. M. Forster died just as...
Paid articleEmotion and Objectivity (June 1970)
Writers & Writings EMOTION AND OBJECTIVITY BY PEARL K. BELL Not so many decades ago, the term 'young man's autobiography," though not without examples, still seemed self-contradictory; the very...
Paid articleEudora Welty's Southland (May 1970)
Writers & Writing EUDORA WELTY'S SOUTHLAND BY PEARL K. BELL There is a map at the front of Eudora Welty's new novel, Losing Battles (Random House, 438 pp., $7.95), to help the reader find his way...
Paid articleDurrell Against His Grain (April 1970)
Writers &Writing DURRELL AGAINST HIS GRAIN BY PEARL K BELL T m. en years ago when Clea, the final volume of Lawrence Durrell's ambitious Alexandua Quartet, was published, the literary air around...
Paid articleTwo Critical Sensibilities (March 1970)
Writers & Writing TWO CRITICAL SENSIBILITIES BY PEARL K BELL A, collection of essays is always risky, for the light of contiguity reveals flaws and crow's-feet that can go undetected when...
Paid articleThe Double World of John Fowles (January 1970)
Writers & Writing THE DOUBLE WORLD OF JOHN FOWLES BY PEARL K. BELL At the very beginning of John Fowles' The French Lieutenant's Woman (Little Brown, 467 pp., $7.95) we are tapped on the...
Paid articleA Literary Orphan (December 1969)
A Literary Orphan WAITING FOR, THE NEWS By Leo Lilwak Doubleday. 312 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by PEARL K. BELL Some novels-and one can almost never predict the reception of good writing; only kitsch...
Paid articleTaker of Notes (May 1969)
Taker of Notes BULLET PARK By John Cheever Knopf. 245 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by PEARL K. BELL Contributor, the "New Yorker," New York "Times Book Review" There is something strangely misguided...
Paid articleParched and Gritty Land (December 1968)
Parched and Gritty Land A TIME AND A PLACE By William Humphrey Knopf. 208 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by PEARL K. BELL Contributor, the "New Yorker," New York "Times Book Review" William Humphrey's...
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