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Fiedler, Leslie

FIEDLER, LESLIE A.

The Crumbling Ivory Tower: (April 1961)

The Crumbling Ivory Tower BEFORE BEGINNING what must be in the end a rather melancholy account of higher education in the United States, I should like to remind myself of the virtues...

A Lonely American Eccentric (December 1960)

Christmas Book Issue A Lonely American Eccentric The Pleasures of John Hawkes By Leslie A. Fiedler Even though his fourth novel, The Lime Twig, will be published this winter, John Hawkes remains...

The 1960 National Book Awards: (May 1960)

By Leslie A. Fiedler The 1960 National Book Awards THERE HANGS over the National Book Awards ceremonies an air of piety, of self-conscious virtue, which is not easy to abide. Everyone present...

SEDUCTION AND THE CLASS STRUGGLE-III (February 1960)

flowering had become in Drieser's time tabu; and even the once-standard description of an unmarried mother's affection for her illegitimate child, a sympathetic rendering of her refusal to consider...

Seduction and the Class Struggle-II (February 1960)

WRITERS and WRITING Seduction and the Class Struggle—II By Leslie A. Fiedler IT IS ONLY Theodore Dreiser who proves capable of reviving the theme of seduction for serious literature, for he takes...

Seduction and the Class Struggle-I (February 1960)

WRITERS and WRITING Seduction and the Class Struggle — I By Leslie A. Fiedler SURELY ONE OF the most difficult modern novelists to assess is Theodore Dreiser, whose reputation a half-century...

Walt Whitman Reconsidered-II (March 1959)

WRITERS and WRITING Walt Whitman Reconsidered — II By Leslie A. Fiedler WHAT ARE THE forms in which Whitman's feelings are objectified? What are his subjects, his themes, symbols and myths?...

Walt Whitman Reconsidered (March 1959)

WRITERS and WRITING Walt Whitman Reconsidered By Leslie A. Fiedler IN ITS ORIGINAL intent. Leaves of Grass is a single poem, which grew during the almost 40 years which Whitman devoted to it from...

Final Thoughts on the Leopold Case (November 1958)

Final Thoughts on the Leopold Case By Leslie A. Fiedler The newspapers provide us every few weeks with another Crime of the Century; and there seems, on the face of it, small reason to ransack...

From Redemption to Initiation (May 1958)

WRITERS and WRITING From Redemption to Initiation By Leslie A. Fiedler Though the treatment of the child in 20th-century fiction is often merely an up-to-date adaptation of sentimental...

On Becoming a Dirty Writer (December 1957)

WRITERS and WRITING On Becoming a Dirty Writer By Leslie A. Fiedler Author, "An End to Innocence IT WAS only a few weeks ago that I succeeded in getting hold of a copy of Vladimir Nabokov's...

The Young Generation-A Fortyish View (May 1957)

The Young Generation — 9 A Fortyish View By Leslie A. Fiedler “Be careful what you wish for in your youth," says an aphorism of Goethe, "for you will get it in your middle age." It is a...

A Homosexual Dilemma (December 1956)

A Homosexual Dilemma Giovanni's Room. By James Baldwin. Dial. 248 pp. $3.00. Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler Visiting professor of English, Princeton; author, "An End to Innocence'' For what seems...

Hollywood Without Madness (December 1955)

Hollywood Without Madness The Deer Park. By Norman Mailer. Putnam. 375 pp. $4.00. Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler Author, "An End to Innocence"; Professor of English, Montana State...

What Makes Herman Run? (October 1955)

WRITERS and WRITING What Makes Herman Run? Marjorie Morningstar. By Herman Wouk. Doubleday. 565 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler Author, "An End to Innocence"; Professor of English...

NOTES ON UKIYOE (May 1955)

Notes on Ukiyoe The Floating World. By James A. Michener. Random House. 403 pp. $§.75M Reviewed by Leslie A. Fiedler Author, "An End to Innocence"; contributor to "Partisan Review,''...

JEW MEETS ANTI-SEMITE (April 1950)

Jew Meets Anti-Semite THE CRIPPLED GIANT. By Milton Hindus. Boar's Head Books. 159 pp. $2.00. Reviewed by LESLIE A. FIEDLER IHAVE HAD the depressing sense lately that there is no...

ART AS A CROSSWORD PUZZLE (March 1950)

Art as a Crossword Puzzle THE DEMON LOVER. By Arthur Wormhoudt. The Exposition Press. WO pp. $3.50t Reviewed by LESLIE A. ELEDLER THERE ARE TWO noteworthy facts about the relationship...

THE NOVEL DEHYDRATED (May 1949)

The Novel Dehydrated Reviewed by LESUE A. FIEDLER GREAT NOVELS AND THEIR NOVELS. By Somertet Maugham. John C. Winston Co. 245 pages. $3.00. HERE IS AN EGREGIOUS CASE in the history of the...

FIEDLER, LESLlE A.

FIELD, A. R.

FIELD, ANDREW

FIELD, GEORGE

FIELD, MICHAEL

FIESS, E.

FIESS, EDWARD

FIGUERES, JOSE

FILENE, PETER

Filler, Louis

FILREIS, ALAN

FINE, EMILY BROWN