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Spinning a Sinister Web_ Double Lives: Spies and Writers in the Secret Soviet War of Ideas Against the West By Stephen Koch Free Press. 419pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham...

Exotic Misreadings (June 1992)

Exotic Misreadings The American Religion: The Emergence of the Post-Christian Nation By Harold Bloom Simon and Schuster. 247 pp. $24.00. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor Emeritus of...

Fiction in Slow Motion (December 1991)

Fiction in Slow Motion The Runaway Soul By Harold Brodkey Farrar Straus Giroux. 835pp. $30.00. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor Emeritus of English, Columbia University Harold...

At the Tip of the Ivory Tower (April 1990)

Writers & Writing AT THE TIP OF THE IVORY TOWER BY ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS FROM the very first chapter ?f The University: A ? Owner's Manual (Norton, 309 pp., $26.95), Henry Rosovsky makes it...

Crawling with Animus (March 1989)

Crawling with Animus Intellectuals By Paul Johnson Harper and Row. 385 pp. $22.50. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University If Intellectuals were...

Me and My Alter Ego (December 1988)

Me and My Alter Ego The Facts By Philip Roth Farrar Straus Giroux. 195 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University Are writers of fiction...

The Far Left Talks to Itself (December 1988)

MEETING IN CAMBRIDGE The Far Left Talks to Itself BY ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS Cambridge A three-day conference with the title "Anti-Communism and the U.S.: History and Consequences" was held...

Of Dissidents and Democracy (February 1988)

Of Dissidents and Democracy The Trial of Socrates By I.F. Stone Little Brown. 267pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University Asked why...

Absolutes and My Grandfather's Aunt Sarah (December 1987)

Thinking Aloud ABSOLUTES AND MY GRANDFATHER'S AUNT SARAH BY ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS When my grandfather Davis' little sister died, their Aunt Sarah on Cape Cod was saddened but relieved. Young...

Thus Spake BIooiti (June 1987)

Thus Spake Bloom The Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students By Allan Bloom Simon and Schuster. 392 pp....

An Errant Seeker of Truth (December 1986)

An Errant Seeker of Truth_ Faith, Sex, Mystery: A Memoir By Richard Gilman Simon & Schuster. 253 pp. $16.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia...

Perversely Ingenious Morality (October 1986)

Perversely Ingenious Morality Roger's Version By John Updike Knopf. 329 pp. $17.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University When it first was...

Making the Moral Matter (April 1986)

Making the Moral Matter_ Lionel Trilling and the Fate of Cultural Criticism By Mark Krupnick Northwestern. 207 pp. $21.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English,...

Everything in Excess (December 1985)

Everything in Excess Hemingway: A Biography By Jeffrey Myers Harper & Row. 644 pp. $27.50 Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University As the overwhelming...

A Realm of Ageless Wonder (July 1985)

A Realm of Ageless Wonder_ Secret Gardens: The Golden Age of Children's Literature By Humphrey Carpenter Houghton Mifflin. 235 pp, $16.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of...

The Torah According to a Social Democrat (March 1985)

The Torah According to a Social Democrat Exodus and Revolution By Michael Walzer Basic Books. 192 pp. $15.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia...

On Native Greats (May 1984)

On Native Greats_ An American Procession By Alfred Kazin Knopf. 408 pp. $18.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University This is a magnificent study...

Excess Without End (May 1983)

Excess Without End Ancient Evenings By Norman Mailer Little, Brown 709 pp $19 95 Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia University This is a work of...

Plumbing Writers' Depths (May 1982)

Plumbing Writers' Depths The Stuff of Sleep and Dreams: Experiments in Literary Psychology By Leon Edel Harper & Row. 352 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of...

A Malign Modernist (April 1982)

A Malign Modernist The Enemy: A Biography of Wyndham Lewis By Jeffrey Meyers Routledge & Kegan Paul. 391 pp. $19.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia ONE...

Blackening a Critic's Reputation (February 1982)

Blackening a Critic's Reputation A Mingled Yarn: The Life of R.P. Blackmur By Russell Fraser Harcourt 357 pp $19.95 Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English,...

A Maker and Finder (December 1981)

A Maker and Finder Van Wyck Brooks: A Writer's Life By Raymond Nelson Dutton. 352 pp. $21.75. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor emeritus of English, Columbia The axe Henry David...

A Study in Contrasts (May 1977)

A Study in Contrasts Transatlantic Patterns: Cultural Comparisons of England with America By Martin Green Basic. 298 pp. $11.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor of English,...

Velikovsky's World (January 1977)

Writers & Writing VELIKOVSKY'S WORLD by ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS Exactly a century ago Heinrich Schliemann discovered at Mycenae what he fancied to be the gold death mask of Agamemnon, permanently...

Scholarly Identification Without Analysis (December 1976)

Scholarly Identification Without Analysis Dostoevsky: The Seeds of Revolt, 1821-1849 By Joseph Frank Princeton. 401 pp. $16.50. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor of English, Columbia...

The Mystery of Creation (September 1976)

Waiters & Writing THE MYSTERY OF CREATION BY ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS Giambatista Vico is the great unread innovative genius everyone has been rediscovering since his New Science was first...

Coming Back to the Beginning (May 1975)

Coming Back to the Beginning Partial Magic: The Novel as a Self-Conscious Genre By Robert Alter California. 246 pp. $10.00. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor of English, Columbia...

The New Burdens of Education (December 1973)

The New Burdens of Education The American University By Talcott Parsons and Gerald M. Plan Harvard. 463 pp. $15.00. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor of English, Columbia...

Writers at the Mercy of the Age (May 1973)

Writers at the Mercy of the Age Bright Book of Life: American Novelists and Storytellers from Hemingway to Mailer By Alfred Kazin Atlantic-Little Brown. 302 pp. 58.95. Reviewed by Robert Gorham...

The Problematic State of Literature (May 1971)

The Problematic State of Literature The Imperial Self By Quentin Anderson Knopf. 274 pp. $7.95. The Critical Path By Northrop Frye Indiana. 171 pp. $4.95. Beyond Formalism By Geoffrey H....

Putting Everything in Question (May 1969)

Putting Everything in Question ERNEST HEMINGWAY: A LIFE STORY By Carlos Baker Scribner's. 697 pp. $10. Reviewed by ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS Professor of English, Columbia University I was a...

Letter from Czechoslovakia (September 1967)

A TRAVELER'S NOTEBOOK Letter from Czechoslovakia By Robert Gorham Davis Prague In Prague, heading for the old town square where Kafka had lived as a boy, I came quite by chance on the Clement...

Letter from Greece (August 1967)

Letter from Greece By Robert Gorham Davis Athens On the tiny Greek island of Mykonos, the Cezanne clusters of houses, churches and windmills dazzle white against the incredible blue of the sea...

Heart of the Artichoke (May 1967)

Heart of the Artichoke fathers By Herbert Cold Random House. 308 pp. $5.95. Reviewed by robert gorham davis Professor of English, Columbia University In Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, the...

Social Chronicle of Literary Communism (December 1961)

Social Chronicle of Literary Communism WRITERS ON THE LEFT By Daniel Aaron Harcourt, Brace and World. 460 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by ROBERT GORHAM DAVIS Professor of English, Columbia...

Freud and Faust in American Letters: (May 1960)

Freud and Faust in American Letters Love and Death in the American Novel. By Leslie A. Fiedler. Criterion. 604 pp. $8.50. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor of English Literature, Columbia...

America 1959: A British View (December 1959)

Christmas Book Issue America 1959: A British View By Robert Gorham Davis IN THE PRESENT national mood, an American inclined to be critical of his culture is more likely to be embarrassed than...

An Unpolitical Political Novel (November 1959)

WRITERS and WRITING An Unpolitical Political Novel Advise and Consent. By Allen Drury. Doubleday. 616 pp. $5.75. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor of English Literature, Columbia...

Living With Books (September 1958)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Robert Gorham Davis Notes from a European Journey: Small Ambitions and Great Ideals Salzburg, Austria The day the executions of Imre Nagy and General Pal Maleter were...

Living With Books (June 1958)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Robert Gorham Davis 'The Art of the Essay,' Contemporary Collection Edited by Leslie A. Fiedler A textbook called The Art of the Essay (Crowell, $4.25) sounds innocent...

Living With Books (May 1958)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Robert Gorham Davis Archibald MacLeish's 4J.B.,' a Verse Play, and Carl Jung's 'Answer to Job' The verse play J.B. by Archibald MacLeish (Houghton Mifflin, $3.50) treats the...

The Changed Belief of Howard Fast (February 1958)

WRITERS and WRITING The Changed Belief of Howard Fast The Naked God. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis By Howard Fast. Professor of English, Smith College; Praeger. 180 pp. $3.50. contributor, N....

The Triumph of Sigmund Freud (December 1955)

The Triumph of Sigmund Freud The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud (Vol. 2). By Ernest Jones. Basic Books. 512 pp. $6.75. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor of English, Smith College;...

A Machiavellian Views Subversion (May 1954)

A Machiavellian Views Subversion The Web of Subversion. By James Burnham. John Day. 248 pp. $3.75. Reviewed by Robert Gorham Davis Professor of English, Smith College; critic, contributor to...

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