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AuthorHUCHES, JOHN
AuthorHUDSON, C. F.
AuthorHUDSON, G. F.
AuthorHUDSON, G.F.
AuthorHUEBNER, LEE W.
AuthorHughan, Jessie W.
AuthorHUGHES, EMKYS
AuthorHUGHES, EVAN
AuthorHUGHES, H. STUART
AuthorHUGHES, JOHN
AuthorHUGHES, JOHN W.
AuthorHughes, Rupert
AuthorHUMPHREY, HUBERT H.
AuthorHUMPHREY, MURIEL
AuthorHumphrey, Senator Hubert H.
AuthorHUNT, JOHN
AuthorHUNT, LAWRENCE
AuthorHUNTER, CHARLAYNE
AuthorHUNTER, DAVID R.
AuthorHUNTER, EDWARD
AuthorHUNTER, ERNEST E.
AuthorHunter, Holland
AuthorHUNTINGTON, MICHAEL HARRINGTON/DAVID MARQUAND/MORTON H. HALPERIN/SAMUEL P.
AuthorHUNTINGTON, SAMUEL P.
AuthorHUPE, ROBERT STRAUSZ
AuthorHURRAY, WILLIAM
AuthorHURWITZ, HAROLD
AuthorHUSARSKA, ANNA
AuthorHUYSSEN, ANDREAS
AuthorHYMAN, STANLE YEDGAR
AuthorHYMAN, STANLEY EDGAR
Paid articleVarangian Times (May 1977)
Writers &.Writing VARANGIAN TIMES BY STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN The following previously unpublished essay by The New Leader's former literary critic, who died in 1970, will appear in a forthcoming...
Paid articleIllumination for the Unchurched (August 1970)
Writers &Writing ILLUMINATION FOR THE UNCHURCHED BY STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN T M he Old Testament (ot), quaintly regarded as the Bible (Tanach) by the Jews, is becoming fashionable these days. Much...
Paid articlePrince Myshkin in Hollywood (May 1970)
PRINCE MYSHKIN IN HOLLYWOOD BY STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN A book some of us have been awaiting for years, Jay Martin's authorized biography of Nathanael West, is finally to appear in June. (It is...
Paid articleSeize the Moon (December 1969)
SEIZE THE MOON BY STANLEY EDGAR HYMAN There are no novels any more. The hungry readers look up, and are not fed. All of our Melvilles seem to be engaged in writing their Pierres (Ada's Goat...
Paid articleThe Book of the Year? (May 1969)
Spring Books The Book of the Year? By Stanley Edgar Hyman I was abroad when Philip Roth's Portnoy's Complaint (Random House, 274 pp., $6.95) came out, and I am still abroad, but I have been...
Paid articleScythian Humanist (December 1968)
Christmas Books A Scythian Humanist By Stanley Edgar Hyman There appears to be a growing interest in the work of Evgeny Zamyatin. Eight translations of his only novel, We, have appeared over the...
Paid articleCouplings (May 1968)
SPRING BOOKS Couplings By Stanley Edgar Hyman What is wrong with John Updike's new novel, Couples (Alfred A. Knopf, 458 pp., $6.95)? Just about eveiything. It is a strong contender in the...
Paid articleKenneth Burke at Seventy (May 1967)
WRITERS & WRITING Kenneth Burke at Seventy By Stanley Edgar Hyman Kenneth Burke seems finally to be coming into his own. His two giant volumes on motivation, A Grammar of Motives and A Rhetoric...
Paid articleGerm's Choice, Shame's Voice (December 1966)
WRITERS & WRITING Germ's Choice, Shame's Voice By Stanley Edgar Hyman "The only arms I allow myself to use-silence, exile, and cunning," Stephen Dedalus proclaims proudly near the end of A...
Paid articleNabokov's Distorting Mirrors (May 1966)
'EXACTLY TWENTY-FIVE HANDWRITINGS' Nabokov's Distorting Mirrors By Stanley Edgar Hyman With characteristic showmanship, Vladimir Nabokov is carefully bringing out his Russian novels in America...
Paid articleThe Art of Joseph Mitchell (June 1965)
CORRECTING A MISEMPHASIS The Art of Joseph Mitchell By Stanley Edgar Hyman The general agreement that Joseph Mitchell is the paragon of reporters seems to be so complete that his importance as a...
Paid articleGrossman Beginning (June 1965)
WRITERS&WRITING Grossman Beginning By Stanley Edgar Hyman ALFRED GROSSMAN is a young American novelist who appears to be less well known here than in England, where he is taken to be a satirist...
Paid articlePlaying Doctor, Playing War (May 1965)
Writers&writing Playing Doctor, Playing War By Stanley Edgar Hyman Negatives, by Peter Everett (Simon and Schuster, 200 pp., $4.95), the latest winner of the Somerset Maugham prize, is a most...
Paid articleFlannery O'Connor's Tattooed Christ (May 1965)
Spring books Flannery O'Connor's Tattooed Christ By Stanley Edgar Hyman Flannery O'Connor's death last August, at the age of 39, was the crudest loss to our literature since the death of...
Paid articlePawnee Days and Ways (April 1965)
WRITERS&WRITING Pawnee Days and Ways By Stanley Edgar Hyman One of the casualties of our era of specialization is the ambitious ethnography, the work, like Codrington's The Melanesians or...
Paid articleJohn Barth's First Novel (April 1965)
WRITERS&WRITING John Barth's First Novel By Stanley Edgar Hyman John barth's The Sot-Weed Factor was first published in 1960, but I did not catch up with it until last year, when it appeared in...
Paid articleWren Houses for the Birds (February 1965)
WRITERS & WRITING Wren Houses for the Birds By Stanley Edgar Hyman If the tape machine has released all sorts of terrible djinn. into our polluted air, it has also brought us many invaluable...
Paid articleT. S. Eliot 1888-1965 (February 1965)
WRITERS WRITING T. S. Eliot 1888-1965 By Stanley Edgar Hyman The death of Thomas Stearns Eliot diminishes us considerably. In 1950, Eliot appeared on the cover of Time, having achieved that...
Paid articleThe Lawrence Mob (January 1965)
WRITERS&WRITING The Lawrence Mob By Stanley Edgar Hyman MANY WRITERS bore and repel me, but there are only two important ones whom I detest. They are Edgar Allen Poe and D. H. Lawrence: Poe...
Paid articleThe Austerities of the New Novel (January 1965)
WRITERS & WRITING The Austerities of the New Novel By Stanley Edgar Hyman I am perhaps not the best audience for the French "new novel." I do not believe that the traditional novel is dead, or...
Paid articleNew Voices of Isaac Babel (July 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING New Voices of Isaac Babel By Stanley Edgar Hyman Whoever may be the foremost major writer of our century, Isaac Babel is surely its foremost minor writer. In his lifetime he...
Paid articleIsaac Singer's Marvels (December 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING Isaac Singer's Marvels By Stanley Edgar Hyman With the publication of Isaac Bashevis Singer's latest book. Short Friday and Other Stories (Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 243...
Paid articleSnopeslore (December 1964)
CHRISTMAS BOOK ISSUE Snopeslore By Stanley Edgar Hyman "HE HAD never thought of it [the sea] before and he could not have said why he wanted to go to it—what of repudiation of the land,...
Paid articleThe Correction of Opinion (November 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING The Correction of Opinion By Stanley Edgar Hyman It appears to be generally believed that James Purdy is an important American writer. The publication of his third novel,...
Paid articleA Trap Named Hope (November 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING A Trap Named Hope By Stanley Edgar Hyman KOBO ABE is a 40-year-old Japanese writer whose first novel, The Road Sign at the End of the Road, appeared in 1948. In 1951 he was...
Paid articleRalph Ellison In Our Time (October 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING Ralph Ellison In Our Time By Stanley Edgar Hyman Ralph Ellison has always insisted that he is primarily a writer of fiction. Thus he offers this harvest of essays and...
Paid articleThe Bible as History (October 1964)
WRITERS & WRlTING The Bible as History By Stanley Edgar Hyman I am, and have been for a long time, an amateur student of the Bible and of archaeology. When Dr. Werner Keller's The Bible as...
Paid articleSaul Bellow's Glittering Eye (September 1964)
WRITERS&WRITING Saul Bellow's Glittering Eye By Stanley Edgar Hyman Here at last is Saul Bellow's much-postponed new novel, Herzog (Viking, 341 pp., $5.75). Its action covers a few weeks of...
Paid articleMark Twain, Half Twain (September 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING Mark Twain, Half Twain By Stanley Edgar Hyman The best American writer? Mark Twain, of course. And the worst? Mark Twain, drat it. I am driven to this far-from-helpful...
Paid articleJoseph and His Mother (August 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING Joseph and His Mother By Stanley Edgar Hyman When Bruce Jay Friedman's first novel. Stern, was published in 1962, I welcomed it in these pages (October 1, 1962) with whoops...
Paid articleA Guide to the Pads (August 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING A Guide to the Pads By Stanley Edgar Hyman I moved out of Manhattan early in 1945, shortly after Peter Minuit bought it from the Indians, and since then I have dwelt among...
Paid articleMan Criticizing (July 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING Man Criticizing By Stanley Edgar Hyman "It would be presumptuous to claim that this mixture creates a new form of literary criticism," says the jacket of George P....
Paid articleDaniel Curley's Story (June 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING Daniel Curley's Story By Stanley Edgar Hyman Daniel Curley is one of the most gifted American writers of my generation, although he has attracted surprisingly little...
Paid articleThe Spire of Babel (June 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING The Spire of Babel By Stanley Edgar Hyman Two years ago in these pages [Aug. 20, 1962], I described William Golding as the most maverick of novelists, a chooser of the least...
Paid articleJewish, All Too Jewish (May 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING Jewish, All Too Jewish By Stanley Edgar Hyman One of the reasons we read novels is to learn about the exotic world: how do Portuguese priests go about seducing their...
Paid articleErnest Hemingway with a Knife (May 1964)
SPRING BOOKS Ernest Hemingway with a Knife By Stanley Edgar Hyman Seems like when they get started they don't leave a guy nothing. The first posthumous publication from the 50 pounds of...
Paid articleThe Fat Knight and the Thin Knight (April 1964)
WRITERS&WRITING The Fat Knight and the Thin Knight By Stanley Edgar Hyman Most comic figures, on inspection, turn out to be variants of the Fat Knight or the Thin Knight. The Fat Knight,...
Paid articleThe Well of Togetherness (April 1964)
WRITERS&WRITING The Well of Togetherness By Stanley Edgar Hyman Freud saw homosexuality as a stage of development on the way to heterosexual genitality, and he regarded anyone who stopped...
Paid articleThe Abomination of Desolation (March 1964)
WRITERS&WRITING The Abomination of Desolation By Stanley Edgar Hyman John Hawkes is a remarkable phenomenon in our letters. He has written, and New Directions has published, six short novels...
Paid articleThe Oldest Story (March 1964)
WRITERS&WRITING The Oldest Story By Stanley Edgar Hyman "A man, a proud man, intelligent, successful, once self-confident, dragged down by a girl out of hell.' The oldest story in the world,...
Paid articleThe American Adam (March 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING The American Adam By Stanley Edgar Hyman When John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor was published in 1960, I appear to have been off hunting caribou near Baffin Bay, and reading...
Paid articleJoy Riding (February 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING Joy Riding By Stanley Edgar Hyman Miss A. L. Barker—I am embarrassed not to know what the initials stand for—is one of the most talented of living English writers. She is...
Paid articleJOHN CHEEVER'S GOLDEN EGG (February 1964)
WRITERS&WRITING John Cheever's Golden Egg By Stanley Edgar Hyman When a highly-esteemed short story writer tries a novel and fails at it, in this amazing country, he is rewarded just as though he...
Paid articleA Multitude of Lieblings (January 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING A Multitude of Lieblings By Stanley Edgar Hyman The Most of A. J. Liebling (edited by William Cole, Simon and Schuster, 322 pp., $5.95) was published in October to compete...
Paid articleThe Mayhew of Chicago (January 1964)
WRITERS & WRITING The Mayhew of Chicago By Stanley Edgar Hyman Until A few months ago, if anyone had asked me who George Ade was, I would have answered that he was the author of some Fables in...
Paid articleThe Great Fitzgerald (December 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING The Great Fitzgerald By Stanley Edgar Hyman IN 1922, after he had published This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, and two volumes of short stories, all in two...
Paid articleThe Dreamy Life of George Smith (November 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING The Dreamy Life of George Smith By Stanley Edgar Hyman Unlike almost everyone I know, I did not think much of J. P. Donleavy's The Ginger Man. I could see what they liked...
Paid articleA Passionate Ethnography (November 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING A Passionate Ethnography By Stanley Edgar Hyman Here is Geòrgie Ross, a skinny, sad, and crosseyed little four-year-old. He walks around the house sucking his thumb and...
Paid articleBernard Malamud's Moral Fables (October 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Bernard Malamud's Moral Fables By Stanley Edgar Hyman Why has the short story flourished in America? The answer to that question would make a book, but we can point toward an...
Paid articleA Japanese Master (September 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING A Japanese Master By Stanley Edgar Hyman My favorite painting in all the world is one that I have never seen. It is "Portrait of Taira Shigemori" by the medieval Japanese...
Paid articleThe Girls of Slender Talents (September 1963)
WRITERS&WRITING The Girls of Slender Talents By Stanley Edgar Hyman If you want to write a novel, for whatever reason, and have no story to tell, do not despair. Two excellent concentrates...
Paid articleIn Defense of Pornography (September 1963)
WRITERS&WRITING In Defense of Pornography By Stanley Edgar Hyman When John Cleland's Fanny Hill was openly published in June, as Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Putnam, 319 pp., $6.00), I...
Paid articleAn Inept Symbolist (August 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING An Inept Symbolist By Stanley Edgar Hyman I missed Guenter Grass' The Tin Drum when it was published in this country last year (translated by Ralph Manheim, Pantheon, 592...
Paid articleAntique Harvester, Lovely Ritualist (August 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Antique Harvester, Lovely Ritualist By Stanley Edgar Hyman IN 1950, when he was awarded the Bollingen Prize in poetry, John Crowe Ransom was asked for comment by a Times...
Paid articleA Dying Life (July 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING A Dying Life By Stanley Edgar Hyman "ITALO SVEVO" (Italus the Swabian) is the unlikely pen name taken by Ettore Schmitz, born 1861, a prosperous Jewish businessman in...
Paid articleMissionary Criticism (July 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Missionary Criticism By Stanley Edgar Hyman I suppose that the modern revival of Christian literary criticism began with T. S. Eliot. He did not set its tone, however. Where...
Paid articleTruths from the Grave (June 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Truths from the Grave By Stanley Edgar Hyman Back in the days when poets had three names, in 1916, Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology appeared, and scandalized the...
Paid articleWhat Did Happen, in Your Opinion? (May 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING What Did Happen, In Your Opinion? By Stanley Edgar Hyman Jean Cau, a French journalist of 38, was formerly Jean-Paul Sartre's secretary. The Mercy of God (translated by...
Paid articleHerbert Gold's Glitter (May 1963)
SPRING BOOKS Herbert Gold's Glitter By Stanley Edgar Hyman Salt (The Dial Press, 318 pp., $4.95) is Herbert Gold's sixth novel. He has also published a book of short stories and a volume of...
Paid articleDr. Chekhov's Diagnosis (April 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Dr. Chekhov's Diagnosis By Stanley Edgar Hyman Whatever else he is, if anything, the reviewer in one of his functions is a shopping service. In those terms, the year's best...
Paid articleFruitcake at Tiffany's (April 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Fruitcake at Tiffany's By Stanley Edgar Hyman I KNEW Truman Capote when he was an office boy at the New Yorker, faintly comic in the intensity of his ambition to become a...
Paid articleThe English Iliad (April 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING The English Iliad By Stanley Edgar Hyman IN OUR day of courtly and chivalric warfare, the adventures of King Arthur and his knights of the Round Table have a particular...
Paid articleThe Goddess and the Schlemihl (March 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING The Goddess and the Schlemihl By Stanley Edgar Hyman Anew sort of American novel seems to be emerging in the '60s. I am led to that conclusion by the appearance of a first...
Paid articleSin in Portugal (March 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Sin in Portugal By Stanley Edgar Hyman Jose Maiua Eca de Queiroz (1843-1900) is said to be the greatest Portuguese novelist. I have no opinion on the matter, since I have...
Paid articleReading About Jazz (February 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Reading About Jazz By Stanley Edgar Hyman Some perverse impulse leads me periodically to take a look at what has become of jazz, which was enormously important to me as a...
Paid articleCHIRON AT OLINGER HIGH (February 1963)
WRITERS&WRITING Chiron at Olinger High By Stanley Edgar Hyman When a volume of John Updike's stories appeared last year, I concluded a review of it here (NL, March 19, 1962) with what is, I hope,...
Paid articleJ. D. Salinger's House of Glass (January 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING J. D. Salinger's House of Glass By Stanley Edgar Hyman With the publication of Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, and Seymour: an Introduction (Little, Brown, 248 pp.,...
Paid articleAnthony Burgess' Clockwork Oranges (January 1963)
WRITERS & WRITING Anthony Burgess' Clockwork Oranges By Stanley Edgar Hyman Anthony Burgess is one of the newest and most talented of the younger British writers. Although he is 45, he has...
Paid articleThe Extremes of E. E. Cummings (December 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING The Extremes of E. E. Cummings By Stanley Edgar Hyman The death of Edward Estlin Cummings a few months ago, at the age of 67, was peculiarly disturbing. I had never met...
Paid articleJohn Steinbeck and the Nobel Prize (December 1962)
Christmas Book Issue John Steinbeck and the Nobel Prize By Stanley Edgar Hyman Almost the first criticism I published dealt with John Steinbeck. I reviewed Sea of Cortei in the New Republic,...
Paid articlePoetics, Dogmatics and Parabolics (November 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Poetics, Dogmatics and Parabolics By Stanley Edgar Hyman "As readers, most of us, to some degree, are like those urchins who pencil mustaches on the faces of girls in...
Paid articleSex and the Sinful Girl (November 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Sex and the Sinful Girl By Stanley Edgar Hyman Books are getting sexier as censorship retreats, bloodied by Lady Chatterley and battered by Henry Miller. I can see my own...
Paid articleLeaping for Goodly Themis (October 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Leaping for Goodly Themis By Stanley Edgar Hyman A book that changed my life-there are times when I think it is the most revolutionary book of the 20th century-has just been...
Paid articleWaiting for Bakayoko (October 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Waiting for Bakayoko By Stanley Edgar Hyman Imagine A proletarian novelist of the '30s, emerging after a quarter-of-a-century sleep in a Catskill cave, publishing a strike...
Paid articleThe Priest with the Fishnet Hatband (September 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING The Priest with the Fishnet Hatband By Stanley Edgar Hyman "Hell is paved with the bald pates of priests!," St. Bernard thundered in the 12th century. J. F. Powers, who used...
Paid articleLove and Death in a Russian Novel (September 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Love and Death in a Russian Novel By Stanley Edgar Hyman FYODOR Kuz'mich Teternikov was born in St. Petersburg in 1863, and died in the same city, renamed Leningrad, in...
Paid articleWilliam Golding's Platonic Myth (August 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING William Golding's Platonic Myth By Stanley Edgar Hyman William Golding is the most maverick novelist publishing today. He chooses the least promising fictional subjects and...
Paid articleThe National Pastime (August 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING The National Pastime By Stanley Edgar Hyman IN controversial matters, it is best to declare one's interest immediately. I was a loudmouth fan of the Brooklyn Dodgers until...
Paid articleThe Yiddish Hawthorne (July 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING The Yiddish Hawthorne By Stanley Edgar Hyman IF Sholom Aleichem is the Yiddish Mark Twain, Isaac Bashevis Singer is the Yiddish Hawthorne. I do not know how many reviewers...
Paid articleTaking a Flyer with Faulkner (July 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Taking a Flyer with Faulkner By Stanley Edgar Hyman To start with a platitude, American success is often hollow. Here is William Faulkner, accepted by all the world, at least...
Paid articleNo Country for Young Men (June 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING No Country for Young Men By Stanley Edgar Hyman "Powerful," says Mark Schorer on the bellyband of James Baldwin's new novel, Another Country (Dial Press, 436 pp., $5.95)....
Paid articleA Novelist of Great Promise (June 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING A Novelist of Great Promise By Stanley Edgar Hyman Television has destroyed boxing in our time, perhaps permanently, by killing the neighborhood clubs, at which young...
Paid articleSo Foolishly in Love (May 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING So Foolishly in Love By Stanley Edgar Hyman Iris Murdoch is one of the younger British novelists who started publishing after the Second World War. They were crudely grouped...
Paid articleSome Questions About Herman Wouk (May 1962)
SPRING BOOKS Some Questions About Herman Wouk By Stanley Edgar Hyman "It is hardly an exaggeration to say that Jeanne had all but fallen in love with the author on reading the first seven...
Paid articleMoviegoing and Other Intimacies (April 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Moviegoing and Other Intimacies By Stanley Edgar Hyman I missed The Moviegoer by Walker Percy (Knopf, 242 pp., $3.95) when it came out last spring. It was Percy's first...
Paid articleThe Wash of the World (April 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING The Wash of the World By Stanley Edgar Hyman When Djuna Barnes' Nightwood was first published, in 1937, Clifton Fadiman reviewed it with wild enthusiasm in the New Yorker....
Paid articleArchetypal Woman, Archetypal Germans (April 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Archetypal Woman Archetypal Germans By Stanley Edgar Hyman In August 1931, Katherine Anne Porter, then 37, sailed from Veracruz to Bremerhaven on a North German Lloyd ship....
Paid articleThe Bombs of the Fathers (March 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING The Bombs of the Fathers By Stanley Edgar Hyman Like many admirers of George P. Elliott's first novel, Parktilden Village, I have been eagerly awaiting his second. It has now...
Paid articlePopular Culture, Politics and Art (February 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Popular Culture Politics and Art By Stanley Edgar Hyman Robert Warshow had a first-rate critical mind and chose to exercise it on inferior materials: movies, comics and...
Paid articleImages of Sigmund Freud (February 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING Images of Sigmund Freud By Stanley Edgar Hyman Freud has been dead for almost a quarter of a century now, but books about him pour from the presses in increasing numbers;...
Paid articleA Dance in Intricate Measure (January 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING A Dance in Intricate Measure By Stanley Edgar Hyman "It is MORE realistic than A La Recherche du Temps Perdu," Evelyn Waugh has said of Anthony Powell's Music of Time series,...
Paid articleO'Faolain's Wonderful Fish (January 1962)
WRITERS & WRITING O'Faolain's Wonderful Fish By Stanley Edgar Hyman Sean O'Faolain (formerly Seán O'Faoláin; still earlier, John Whelan) is not nearly so well known in this country as Frank...
Paid articleThe Sadness of Cesare Pavese (December 1961)
WRITERS & WRITING The Sadness of Cesare Pavese By Stanley Edgar Hyman "The fame Vittorini has won in America, has it made you jealous? No. I am in no hurry. I shall beat him in the long run."...
Paid articleIn the Jungles of Brooklyn (December 1961)
CHRISTMAS BOOK ISSUE In the Jungles of Brooklyn By Stanley Edgar Hyman Daniel Fuchs' three novels of American Jewish life—Summer in Williamsburg, Homage to Blenholt and Low Company—appeared...
Paid articleComing Out of the Wilderness? (November 1961)
WRITERS & WRITING Coming Out of the Wilderness? By Stanley Edgar Hyman The fiction of Robert Penn Warren is one of the most puzzling phenomena in modern American literature. He is our only...
Paid articleANTHROPOLOGIST OF GOPHER PRAIRIE (October 1961)
WRITERS& WRITING Anthropologist of Gopher Prairie By Stanley Edgar Hyman For a number of reasons, one of them the thorough tarnishing of Sinclair Lewis' reputation by the 1930s, I never read...
Paid articleThose Trans-Atlantic Blues (October 1961)
WRITERS & WRITING Those Trans-Atlantic Blues By Stanley Edgar Hyman The Negro blues are experiencing a revival, after dropping into relative obscurity in the 1940s. In their distorted and...
Paid articleA New Life for a Good Man (October 1961)
WRITERS & WRITING A New Life for a Good Man By Stanley Edgar Hyman Bernard Malamud's A New Life (Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 367 pp., $4.95) is the first new novel of consistent excellence...
Paid articleAN UNLOVELY ARISTOCRAT (September 1961)
WRITERS&WRITING An Unlovely Aristocrat By Stanley Edgar Hyman Count Henry de Montherlant was elected to the French Academy in 1960, which apparently inspired Macmillan to bring out two books by...
Paid articleThe Best of Hemingway: (August 1961)
WRITERS and WRITING The Best of Hemingway By Stanley Edgar Hyman When A writer who has been important to you dies, if you want to get the taste of the tributes in the mass-circulation magazines...
Paid articleBlacks, Whites and Grays: (July 1961)
WRITERS and WRITING Blacks, Whites and Grays By Stanley Edgar Hyman The striking photograph that serves as the jacket design for Nobody Knows My Name (Dial, 241 pp., $4.50) reveals James...
Paid articleHomer's Shining Raiment: (July 1961)
WRITERS and WRITING Homer's Shining Raiment By Stanley Edgar Hyman What do we want of a translation of the Odyssey in our time? If the answer is an English poem of vigor and beauty, aptly...
Paid articleTHE INNOCENCE OF HENRY MILLER (June 1961)
WRITERS and WRITING The Innocence of Henry Miller By Stanley Edgar Hyman Aftei; 27 \ ears. Henrv Miller's first and most famous hook. Tropic of Cancer \ Grove Press. Mli! ]>p.. -ST. 50I. has...
Paid articleOld Fox and New Camellias: (June 1961)
WRITERS and WRITING Old Fox and New Camellias By Stanley Edgar Hyman There is something peculiar about Ignazio Silone's new short novel, The Fox and the Camellias (Harper, 139 pp., $3.50). It...
Paid articleSalad Days, Green and Cold: (May 1961)
WRITERS and WRITING Salad Days, Green and Cold By Stanley Edgar Hyman Here is a great handsome green book, with a painting of its hero on the jacket, looking like a green pea pod. It is Der...
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