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Tracing the Common Thread (May 1972)

Tracing the Common Thread Democratic Humanism and American Literature By Harold Kaplan Chicago 272 pp $12 00 Reviewed by Granville Hicks Author, "Literary Horizons A Quarter Century of...

Living with Books: (January 1958)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks James Jones's 'Some Came Running': A Study in Arrogant Primitivism Writing about himself in Twentieth Century Authors, James Jones says that he joined the...

Living with Books (December 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks A Masterful Novel by Heinrich Boll And Short Stories by James Purely Tomorrow and Yesterday (Criterion Books, $4.50) is the fourth of Heinrich Boll's novels...

Living with Books (December 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks 'Sewanee,' 'Partisan,' 'Kenyon' and 'Hudson' Reviews: A Brief Analysis Among the so-called little magazines, the big four are the Sewanee Review, the Partisan...

Living with Books (November 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Stories by Yerlin Cassill, James Hall And Herbert Gold in New Collection IN His introduction to Fifteen by Three (New Directions, paperbound, $1.35), James...

Living With Books (November 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Novels of Innocence by Mark Harris, Margaret Creal and Andrew Lytle By one of those accidents that are common enough in the publishing world, though seldom...

Living With Books (October 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Some Good Fiction Which Won't Get The Popular Attention It Deserves In the publishing business, as everyone knows, a few novels get a good deal of attention...

Living with Books (September 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Writers' Conferences and Writing Courses: Can Writing Be Taught? This summer I was on the teaching staff of the Antioch Writers' Conference, along with James...

Living with Books (September 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Traditional Novels by Gerald Warner Brace and James Gould Cozzens Critical opinion today places a high value on the innovating novelists, those who try to...

Living with Books (August 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Wright Morris Turns to Sex in His 11th Novel, 'Love Among the Cannibals' My enthusiasm for Wright Morris goes back to 1942, when I read his first novel, My...

Living with Books (July 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Novels by Robert Graves, Bernard Wolfe, H. M. Lynde and John Wyllie On the jacket of Robert Graves's They Hanged My Saintly Billy (Doubleday, $3.95) there is...

Living with Books (May 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks 'The Sandcastle,' 'The Legacy' and Two Other, Less Memorable Novels One of the brightest and certainly one of the most enjoyable of the younger British...

Living with Books (April 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks John Cheever's 'Wapshot Chronicle' And Two Novels by Younger Writers A good novel always gives one kind of pleasure or another, but the kind of pleasure that...

Living With Books (March 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Irving Howe's 'Politics and the Novel' —Intelligent, Appreciative Criticism Unlike most literary critics today, Irving Howe has an active interest in...

Living With Books (March 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks 'The Innocent,' a Vigorous, Readable Southern Novel by Madison Jones Madison Jones is a serious young Southern writer, with a talent for portraying action and...

Living With Books (February 1957)

living with books By Granville Hicks Harris's 'Ticket for a Seamstitch' and Gill's 'The Day the Money Stopped' Mark Harris's A Ticket for a Seamstitch (Knopf, $3) is another book about that...

Living With Books (February 1957)

living with books By Granville Hicks The Prize Short Stories of the Year And Three New Individual Collections When E. M. Forster was looking for a working definition of the novel, he was forced...

Living With Books (January 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks 'Some Corner of an English Field,' The Second Novel of Dannie Abse Dannie Abse is a young poet and physician who was born in Wales and now lives and practices...

Living With Books (January 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks A Late Look at 1956 Novels by John Hersey, Eva Boros and Iris Murdoch THIS PIECE, written as 1956 nears its end, is devoted to three of the year's novels that...

Living with Books (January 1957)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Ivy Compton-Burnett's 'Brothers and Sisters' Combines Artistry, Insight IN his introduction to the American edition of Ivy Compton-Burnett's Brothers and...

Living With Books (December 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS The State of Literary Journalism: Is the Serious Novel Expendable? By Granville Hicks Last spring. I wrote an article for The New Leader on the state of literary journalism in...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (November 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Collections of New and Classic Works By Saul Bellow, Orwell and Wilder Saul Bellow's new book, Seize the Day (Viking, $3.00), contains a novella, three...

Living with Books (November 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks 'The Radical Novel in the United States,' A Critical Survey by Walter B. Rideout Walter B. Rideout's The Radical Novel in the United States, 1900-1954...

Living With Books (October 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS 'Peyton Place' and Other Fictional Treatments of Small-Town U.S.A. By Granville Hicks It isn't easy these days for a book to get a reputation as a shocker, but Grace Metalious's...

Living with Books (October 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS C. P Snow's 'Homecoming' Describes Social as Well as Individual Problems By Granville Hicks Three weeks ago, reviewing Wright Morris's The Field of Vision, I had a good deal to...

Living With Books (October 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks 'The Field of Vision,' by Wright Morris, A Significant and Enriching Novel The scene of Wright Morris's new novel, The Field of Vision (Harcourt, Brace,...

Living With Books (August 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS A Sampling of Literary Reference Works Accumulated Over 20 Years By Granville Hicks HICKS Having lived and worked in the country for the past 20 years and more, I have of...

Living With Books (July 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Donald Elder's Biography Helps Solve Mysteries of Ring Lardner IT is surprising that someone didn't get around to writing a biography of Ring Lardner before...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (April 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS War, All Inspires German, British, U.S. Novels Although current reports of the demise of the novel seem to me exaggerated, I am prepared to admit that the form may not be...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (April 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks 'A House of Children,' by Joyce Cary, and David Garnett's 'Aspects of Love' Joyce Cary's first novel was published in 1932, when he was a good bit past 40. He...

Living With Books (March 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks A Fine New Novel by Mark Harris and Collected Stories of J. F. Powers Having greatly enjoyed Mark Harris's new novel, Bang the Drum Slowly (Knopf, $3.50), I...

Living With Books (March 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Novels by Graham Greene, David Karp Describe American Political Innocence Although Graham Greene makes a distinction between his thrillers-"entertainments" he...

Living With Books (February 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS New Novels on Current Politics by Edwin O'Connor, Richard Llewellyn By Granville Hicks Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah (Atlantic-Little Brown, $4.00) deals with one phase of...

Living With Books (January 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Orwell's 'Keep the Aspidistra Flying' and Nigel Dennis's 'Cards of Identity' Before the success of Animal Farm, few of George Orwell's books had been...

Living With Books (January 1956)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks MacKinlay Kantor's 'Andersonville' and 'A Dream of Kings' by Davis Grubb MacKinlay Kantor's Andersonville (World, $5) has been carried to a tremendous...

Writers and Writing Living With Books (December 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS Dylan Thomas and George Orwell-So Different, Yet in One Way So Alike By Granville Hicks There has been considerable controversy over John Malcolm Brinnin's Dylan Thomas in...

Living With Books (December 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS 1955's Young Novelists Say Farewell To Old Timidity on Social Themes By Granville Hicks You hear it said in critical circles that too many of the writers who have emerged since...

Living With Books (November 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Morris Ernst's New Book Predicts Pie in the Sky Within Two Decades Some weeks ago (NL, September 19), I discussed Erich Fromm's melancholy views of...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (November 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Everyone Analyzes Everyone Else in Mary McCarthy's 'A Charmed Life' Mary McCarthy has a curious position in contemporary literature. Although she has never...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (October 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Giono, Camus and the 'Anchor Review' Concern Themselves With Man's Fate Jean Giono's new novel, The Malediction (Criterion Books, S3.00), is amazingly unlike...

Living With Books (October 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Novels by Robert Coates, Jo Sinclair, Felix Jackson and Peter Matthiessen In an article called "Gray New World," published in the Nation last June, John W....

LIVING WITH BOOKS (September 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Capitalist Mass Society Indicted Anew In Erich Fromm's 'The Sane Society' Reading The Sane Society (Rinehart, $5.00), one suddenly realizes that Erich Fromm...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (September 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS! By Granville Hicks Alan Harrington, Gerald Brace Show Good Novels Need Not Be Pessimistic In an interview recently published in the New York Times Book Review, Sloan Wilson...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (August 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Fiction Chronicle: Novels by Halevy, Ellison, Bonner, Gallagher and Goyen AS I was remarking the other day, every publishing season brings its quota of...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (July 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Is Non-Fiction More 'Serious' Than Fiction? Some Philistines Think So Mr. George Hinckley, circulation manager of the Reporter, recently sent out an appeal...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (June 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Joyce Gary Concludes His Trilogy Tragically With 'Not Honour More' Joyce Gary's new trilogy, which began as high comedy in Prisoner of Grace, comes to a...

Living With Books: (May 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Wyndham Lewis and Lin Yutang Mix Politics and Literature—Unsuccessfully MEN OF LETTERS are seldom reticent about telling the world what is wrong with it,...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (May 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks The Red(?) Thirties Illuminated in Murray Kentpton's Tart of Our Time' During the worst years of the Great Depression, many Americans came to feel that some...

Living With Books: (April 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS 'The Emigrants' by George Lamming ?A Colorful New Novel of Alienation By Granville Hicks A COUPLE of years ago, a young native of the West Indies, George Lamming, published a...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (April 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Three New Novels by Oakley Hall, Millen Brand and Ivy Compton-Burnett Like His earlier novel, The Corpus of Joe Bailey, Oakley Hall's Mardios Beach (Viking,...

Living With Books (March 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS Political Novels by Joseph Wechsberg, Ralph de Toledano and May Sarton HICKS Although it is true that many of the talented young novelists choose to write on quiet, personal...

Living With Books: (March 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks A Modern Reworking of the 'Odyssey' And a Jewish Family's Life in Wales WHEN ROBERT GRABVES wrote I, Claudius twenty years ago, his knowledge of and...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (January 1955)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks The Impressive Debut of a Versatile Writer, 25-year-old Shirley Ann Grau Since Shirley Ann Grau is a Southerner and only 25, one couldn't hold it against her...

Living With Books: (December 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS 1954's Novelists Treat the Theme of 'Here and There,' 'Now and Then' By Granville Hicks IN THE PAST YEARS, I have read more than thirty American novels. I know of a few others...

Living With Books: (November 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Aging Sean O'Casey's Latest Memoirs Are Lively, Peevish and Provocative WITH Sunset and Evening Star (Macmillan, $4.75), Sean O'Casey brings to its conclusion...

Living With Books: (November 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS Three Novels Touch on the Problem Of Rootlessness in Modern Society By Granville Hicks AS I HAVE pointed out from time to time in these pages, each publishing season brings its...

LIVING WITH BOOKS (October 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Toynbee's 'Study of History' Concludes With the Future Still a Question Mark The first three volumes of Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History appeared in 1934,...

Living With Books: (October 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Wright Morris's New Novel Contrasts The World of the '20s and the '50s IN 1942, I read Wright Morris's first novel, My Uncle Dudley, and was convinced that it...

Living With Books (September 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Three Novels on Connecticut Living, Juvenile Murder, Menhaden Fishing I HAVE BEEN reading three novels that I didn't get a chance to read when they were...

Living With Books (August 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS Selections of Prose and Poetry From Cyril Connolly's 'Horizon' By Granville Hicks In a summer that, for various reasons, has not provided much time for concentrated reading, I...

Living With Books (July 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS David Riesman Explores the Problem Of the Individual in a Mass Society By Granville Hicks In the introduction to one of the sections of Individualism Reconsidered (Free Press,...

Living With Books (June 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS Novels by Steinbeck and Shirer And One from South Africa By Granville Hicks William L. Shirer, in Stranger Come Home (Little, Brown, $3.95), has written about a foreign...

Living With Books (May 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS A Fiction Roundup, with Comments On Form, Meaning and Narrative By Granville Hicks The pleasures of reading fiction are varied. Sometimes, what one wants is a story, and today...

Living With Books (May 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Jacques Barzun Examines America??Its Techniques, Its Culture, Its Values Jacques Barzun's God's Country and Mine (Little, Brown, $5.00) is one of the...

Living With Books (April 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS The Tragedy of a Sturdy Country Woman Displaced to an Alien World By Granville Hicks One of the most interesting and moving novels I have read since I have been writing this...

Living With Books (April 1954)

The Disturbing Problem of 'Genius': New Studies of Proust and Faulkner LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks Writing about William Faulkner a couple of years ago, Irving Howe said: "He is--to use...

THE GREAT REVERSAL (March 1954)

By Granville Hicks THE GREAT REVERSAL WHittaker Chambers wrote a long book, Witness, to describe his two conversions—to Communism and from Communism—both of them emotional experiences of the...

Liberals Fake and Retarded (March 1954)

Although a majority of American intellectuals are anti-Communist, there are still small groups who retain their old pro-Soviet prejudices LIBERALS Fake and Retarded By Granville Hicks Whatever...

Living With Books (March 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS Is 'Technique' the Magic Ingredient That Produces a Work of Art? By Granville Hicks You hear a story that strikes you as enormously funny, and when you repeat it, it goes flat....

Living With Books (January 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS By Granville Hicks A Novel of Despair from Spain And a Buoyant One from France Camilo Jose Cela is apparently the only novelist of any stature to have developed in Franco's...

Living With Books (January 1954)

LIVING WITH BOOKS Two Novels About Youth and Age By Jessamyn West and Eudora Welty By Granville Hicks Jessamyn West's Cress Delahanty (Harcourt Brace, $3.75) carries its heroine from the age of...

ORWELL: A GENERATION'S CONSCIENCE (February 1950)

Orwell: A Generation's Conscience DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON. By George Orwell. Harcourt. Brace & Co. 213 pp $2.75. i BURMESE BAYS. By George Orwell. Harepurt, Brace & Co. 287 pp. 18.00....

AMERICA THROUGH FOREIGN EYES (July 1949)

America Thought For Eyes •THAT WAS AMERICA. Edited by Oscar Handlin. Harvard Unioerrfty Press. 602 pp. $6.00. Reviewed By GRANVILLE MICKS ^HE TEARS SINCE THE CONCLUSION OF THE SECOND WORLD E...

IRRESPONSIBLES: 1949 (June 1949)

Irresponsibles: 1949 By Granville Hicks With this column by Granville Hicks, The New Leader man git rates a new feature — periodic guest columns by prominent leaders in politics, science and the...

HAWTHORNE ISOLATED (June 1949)

WRITERS and WRITING THE NEW LEADER LITERARY SECTION Hawthorne Isolated NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE By Mark Van Doren. The American Men 0/ Letters Series. New York: William Sloane Associates. 285 pp....

VEHICLES FOR FANTASY (April 1949)

Vehicles for Fantasy (viewed by GRANVILLE HICKS fHE GHOSTLY 'TALES OF HENRY J AMES.-Edited by Leon Edel Rutgers University Press. 66 pp. $5.00. MR. EDEL HAS PUT TOGETHER a fat and immensely...

HICKS, JOHN D.

HIGGINS, R.A.

HIGGINS, TRUMBULL

HILDEBRANDT, RAINER

HILDRETH, ROBERT

Hilferding, Rudolf

Hilktuit, Morris

HILL, GEORGE

HILL, GILBERT M.

HILL, HERBERT

HILL, NORMAN

Hill, Stephen