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READINGS OF DICKENS BY RUTH MATHEWSON "You charm me, Mortimer, with your reading of my weaknesses. (By the by, that very word, Reading, in its critical use, always charms me. An actress's Reading...

Shoptalk of the Soul (March 1978)

Writers &Writing SHOPTALK OF THE SOUL by ruth mathewson 1960, a decade after the publication of his Childhood and Society, Erik H. Erikson—the chief exponent in our time of the idea that human...

Edmund Wilson's Instructions (December 1977)

EDMUND WILSON'S INSTRUCTIONS Christmas Book Issue BY RUTH MATHEWSON From Princeton, when he was 17, Edmund Wilson wrote to a friend that he had just seen "Shaw's new masterpiece, Fanny's First...

John Fowles, Ghostwriter (November 1977)

Writers & Writing JOHN FOWLES, GHOSTWRITER BY RUTH MATHEWSON I count on my reader fully," wrote Anton Chekhov, "assuming that he himself will add the subjective elements that are lacking in the...

Roth's Novelistic Alchemy (October 1977)

Writers & Writing ROTH'S NOVELISTIC ALCHEMY BY RUTH MATHEWSON Philip roth responded like a comedian discovering his ideal straight man when a critic complained about his novella The Breast that...

Debt, Desire and Decorum (October 1977)

Writers & Writing DEBT, DESIRE AND DECORUM BY RUTH MATHEWSON u. nth. the publication of Mary Nash's The Provoked Wife (Little, Brown, 358 pp , $12 50), the life of its subject, Susannah Cibber,...

Remembering Sacco and Vanzetti (September 1977)

Writers & Writing REMEMBERING SACCO AND VANZETTI BY RUTH MATHEWSON In a letter from Charlestown Prison, a year before he and Nicola Sacco were executed, Bartolomeo Vanzetti complained to a...

The Whole Gestalt Catalogue (August 1977)

THE WHOLE GESTALT CATALOGUE BY RUTH MATHEWSON Cyra McFadden's The Serial: A year in the life of Marin County (Knopf, 111 pp., $4.95) does not look like a novel; with outsized pages and a bright...

Worshipping the Sentimental (August 1977)

Writers & writing WORSHIPPING THE SENTIMENTAL BY RUTH MATHEWSON My own sex," cries Basil Ransom in Henry James' The Bostonians, ". .. that's what I want to save! . . . From the most damnable...

Putting Down 'The Thorn Birds' (July 1977)

Writers & Writirig PUTTING DOWN THE THORN BIRDS' by RUTH MATHEWSON EVEN allowing for book-industry hyperbole, Colleen McCulIough's new novel, The Thorn Birds (Harper & Row, 530 pp., $9.95), was a...

Ghost Stories (June 1977)

Writers & writing GHOST STORIES BY RUTH MATHEWSON In her first novel, Ceremony (Viking, 262 pp., $10.00), the poet and short-story writer Leslie Marmon Silko demonstrates that she is a "saver"—of...

A "Book-chat' with Michael Wood on Gore Vidal (May 1977)

Perspectives A 'BOOK-CHAT' WITH MICHAEL WOOD ON GORE VIDAL BY RUTH MATHEWSON AS a term of abuse, "book-chat" yields only to "academe" in Gore Vidal's fourth collection of essays, Matters of...

Family Dramas (May 1977)

FAMILY DRAMAS BY RUTH MATHEWSON some novels suffer not from neglect, but from the wrong kind of attention. They are discussed too quickly for their bearing on contemporary issues, read too hastily...

A Placeless Southerner (April 1977)

Writers & Writing A PLACELESS SOUTHERNER by ruth mathewson AS poet, novelist, critic, and teacher, Robert Penn Warren has been for 40 years a powerful presence in American letters. And his...

Cultural Connections (March 1977)

Writers & Writing CU LTU RAL CONNECTIONS BY RUTH MATHEWSON The noisy "Two Cultures" debate on science and literature between C. P. Snow and F. R. Leavis in 1959 drew from Lionel Trilling a...

A Russian Entertainment (February 1977)

Writers & Writing A RUSSIAN ENTERTAINMENT BY RUTH MATHEWSON If the Soviet Union had a free press, Hedrick Smith was told when he was the New York Times bureau chief in Moscow, Vladimir Voinovich...

The Frost Story (February 1977)

Writers &Writing THE FROST STORY BY RUTH MATHEWSON when, on the eve of Jimmy Carter's oath-taking, James Dickey read his Inaugural Poem from the stage of the John F. Kennedy Center, there were...

Hanley's Palimpsest (January 1977)

Writers & Writings HANLEY'S PALIMPSEST by Ruth Mathewson The English writer James Hanley has been discovered and rediscovered for almost half a century. When his last book came out in 1973, Time...

Family Entanglements (December 1976)

Writers & Writing FAMILY ENTANGLEMENTS BY RUTH MATHEWSON N NOT UNTIL we have finished The Widow's Children (E.P. Dutton, 224 pp., $8.95), the latest novel by Paula Fox, do we realize how aptly...

An Uncommon Reviewer (December 1976)

Writers &Writing AN UNCOMMON REVIEWER BY RUTH MATHEWSON l hope the New York Times Book Review plans more issues like the one last November 14 that began with Eudora Welty's wonderful ordering of...

Courting Death (November 1976)

Writers & Writing COURTING DEATH BY RUTH MATHEWSON THERE WAS no reason to expect Mary Hemingway to write like her husband, but surely cause to have hoped that in her memoir of their 17 years...

A Question of Facts (October 1971)

Waiters & Writing A QUESTION OF FACTS BY RUTH MATHEWSON Ronald was born in Glasgow in 1927. His conception may have marked the only time his parents ever "committed sexual intercourse." For days...

Sinyavsky's Mission (September 1976)

Writers & Writing SINYAVSKY'S MISSION BY RUTH MATHEWSON It is easy to describe A Voice from the Chorus (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 328 pp., $10.00) by Abram Tertz (Andrei Sinyavsky) as a...

Toys and Fictions (August 1976)

Writers & Writing TOYS AND FICTIONS BY RUTH MATHEWSON In her commencement speech at Vassar this June Mary McCarthy—whose literary stock in trade has often been the comedy of women's hospitality...

The Mystery-Writer as Novelist (July 1976)

Writers & Writing THE MYSTERY-WRITER AS NOVELIST BY RUTH MATHEWSON When Arthur Conan Doyle wrote a last farewell to Sherlock Holmes in 1927, he noted that turning out "these lighter sketches"...

A Brute of a Life (July 1976)

Writers & Writing A BRUTE OF A LIFE BY RUTH MATHEWSON Now that the works of three writers as original and different from one another as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Julio...

A Scattering of Seeds (June 1976)

Writers & Writing a scattering of seeds by ruth mathewson In His new book, The Uses of Enchantment (Knopf, 328 pp., $12.50), Bruno Bettelheim declares that fairy tales have been "outlawed." We...

A Tangled Bank (April 1976)

A Tangled Bank The Realms of Gold By Margaret Drabble Knopf. 354 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Ruth Mathewson Instructor in English, Barnard College "It is interesting," wrote Charles Darwin at the...

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Maurei, Meyer Emil

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Maurer, Meyer Emil

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