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AuthorMEANY, GEORGE
AuthorMEANY, GEOROE
AuthorMECKLIN, JOHN
AuthorMEDGES, M. H.
AuthorMeeking, Charles
AuthorMEERLOO, JOOST A. M.
AuthorMeiman, Beniemin
AuthorMeiman, Benjamin
AuthorMeiman, By Benjamin
AuthorMEISSNER, BORIS
AuthorMEISTER, ROBERT
AuthorMELIA, THOMAS O.
AuthorMellor, William
AuthorMELLOW, CRAIG
AuthorMELLOW, IAMES R.
AuthorMELLOW, JAMES
AuthorMELLOW, JAMES R
AuthorMELLOW, JAMES R.
AuthorMELLOW, JAMES W.
AuthorMellquist, Jerome
AuthorMELMAN, RICHARD
AuthorMELTZER, MARVIN
AuthorMENDELSON, WALLACE
AuthorMENDEZ, ANTONIO
AuthorMendizabal, Alfredo
AuthorMenendez, Jaime
AuthorMENGES, CONSTANTINE C.
AuthorMENGESTU, DINAW
AuthorMENON, B. P.
AuthorMeray, Tibor
AuthorMERCHANT, NORRIS
AuthorMERKIN, DAPHNE
Paid articleA Willful Blurring of Memory (August 2007)
A Willful Blurring of Memory Peeling the Onion By Günter Grass Translated by Michael Henry Heim Harcourt. 425 pp. $26.00. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Essayist and critic;...
Paid articleWhile the City Slept (January 2006)
Wite-Out Nights While the City Slept By Daphne Merkin WHEN I LOOK BACK at the years I wrote for TheNew Leader as first a book critic and then a movie critic—from 1977 through 1986, with...
Paid articleAt a Safe Distance (May 2005)
At a Safe Distance Omaha Blues: A Memory Loop By Joseph Lelyveld Farrar Straus Giroux. 226 pp. $22.00. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Essayist and critic; author, "Enchantment," "Dreaming of...
Paid articleA Fantasy of Empowerment (November 2001)
A Fantasy of Empowerment When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Barzun, Fadiman, Trilling By Carolyn G. Heilbrun Pennsylvania. 159 pp. $24.95. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Author,...
Paid articleA Mysterious Love Affair (September 1995)
A Mysterious Love Affair Great Day Coming: A Memoir of the 1930s By Hope Hale Davis Steerforth. 337 pp. S24.00. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Author, "Enchantment"; contributor, "New Yorker;'...
Paid articleA Universe of Ostentatious Invention (June 1994)
A Universe of Ostentatious Invention The Crossing By Cormac McCarthy Knopf. 426pp. $23.00. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Author, "Enchantment"; contributor, "New Yorker," "Partisan Review" I DON'T...
Paid articleOn Screen (February 1986)
On Screen TWISTED HISTORIES BY DAPHNE MERKIN of Africa is the sort of brash, "give-'em-everything we've got" picture that makes other movies look piddling and timid by comparison. It strides on...
Paid articleOn Stage (January 1986)
On Screen A SMALL GEM BY DAPHNE MERKIN Increasingly of late, it seems to me the only intelligent thing to do in the face of that modern behemoth known as the movie industry is lie down and submit...
Paid articleOn Screen (October 1985)
On Screen PERIOD PIECES BY DAPHNE MERKIN find it hard to conceive of a movie about an erotic obsession being anything less than fascinating, but Dance With a Stranger is not even memorable....
Paid articleOn Screen (July 1985)
On Screen SUMMER WITHOUT HONOR BY DAPHNE MERKIN I put off seeing the much acclaimed Prizzi's Honor for the longest while, thinking it would pro vide me with something to look forward to this...
Paid articleOn Screen (May 1985)
On Screen RETIREMENT AND BEYOND BY DAPHNE MERKIN Cocoon is the first, and will almost certainly be the only, smash hit set in a retirement community. Released just in time to counteract the...
Paid articleOn Screen (March 1985)
On Screen UNFAKED INNOCENCE BY DAPHNE MERKIN The Sure Thing is that rarest of commodities: a film that actually lives up to its title. Here is a treat for Yuppies with soul—the Porky/Son of Porky...
Paid articleOn Screen (February 1985)
On Screen BABES IN SPYLAND BY DAPHNE MERKIN The Falcon & The Snowman is one helluva mixed-up movie, but from the wide and powerful opening aerial shots you know you are being programed to regard...
Paid articleDavin Lean's Predictable 'Passage' (December 1984)
On Screen DAVID LEAN'S PREDICTABLE 'PASSAGE' BY DAPHNE MERKIN A Passage to India plows forward like one of those great ocean liners of days past, its captain firmly at the helm and all the...
Paid articleArtists and Eccentrics (November 1984)
On Screen ARTISTS AND ECCENTRICS BY DAPHNE MERKIN "Bertrand Tavernier is a wide-open director, porous in a way few of his contemporaries are, here or abroad. Given the expense and brouhaha...
Paid articleThree That Don't Play (October 1984)
On Screen THREE THAT DON'T PLAY BY DAPHNE MERKIN Sam Shepard must be among the most prolific—and least versatile— writers going. As Dorothy Parker said of the young Katharine Hepburn's affective...
Paid articleFamily Affairs (October 1984)
On Screen FAMILY AFFAIRS BY DAPHNE MERKIN Families, for better or worse, are where we all begin: The place they occupy in our imaginations is both large and complex. So it is hardly surprising...
Paid articleDeath in a Tin Canister (September 1984)
On Screen DEATH IN A TIN CANISTER BY DAPHNE MERKIN I doubt that anyone has figured out why one piece of summer fluff manages to stick around for ages, while another floats off into the ether,...
Paid article"Childhood, Imported and Domestic" (July 1984)
On Screen CHLDHOOD, IMPORTED AND DOMESTIC BY DAPHNE MERKIN Of the the many differences between domestic and foreign films, there is one I have been repeatedly struck by. Movies about children...
Paid articleGlory Gone Tawdry (June 1984)
OnScreen GLORY GONE TAWDRY BY DAPHNE MERKIN When I first heard that John Huston was planning to make a movie of Under the Volcano, I was aghast. Although my reaction may have had an elitist...
Paid articleOn Screen (April 1984)
OnScreen ROMANCES IN THE WRONG TONE BY DAPHNE MERKIN whenever I see an American movie that has deliberately set out to be unnoisy and "small," I find myself bored. Perhaps subtlety is alien to...
Paid articleOn Screen (March 1984)
On Screen COMEDY ON THREE LEVELS BY DAPHNE MERKIN There is something dark and discomfiting behind the show-biz patter and "all's well that ends well" plot of Woody Allen's latest film. He has...
Paid articleThe Price of Being Jane Bowles (October 1981)
Waiters & Writing THE PRICE OF BEING JANE BOWLES by daphne merkin I'm not sure I'll come out on top there are so many things against me," 20-year-old Jane Bowles wrote in a letter to a cousin....
Paid articleLife and Its Discontents (April 1981)
Writers &Writing LIFE AND ITS DISCONTENTS BY DAPHNE MERKIN CONTEMPORARY NOVELS tend to circumscribe the possibilities available to them D M Thomas' The White Hotel (Viking, 274 pp , $12 95), in...
Paid articleVirile Refinement (March 1981)
Writers &Writing VIRILE REFNEMENT BY DAPHNE MERKIN P. hotographs of Elizabeth Bowen usually show her looking out with mannish directness, the impression of force softened by feminine touches...
Paid articleRunning from the Familiar (February 1981)
Waiters &Wfriting RUNNING FROM THE FAMILIAR by daphne merkin T .JL. here is something dreary about Graham Greene's wanderings in search of the exotic, a moodiness that pervades and eventually...
Paid articleHidden Motivations (February 1981)
A Quest for \alues The Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980 By Daniel Bell Abt. 370pp. $25.00. Reviewed by Stephen J. Whitfield Assistant Professor of American...
Paid articleAlice's Vanishing Act (January 1981)
Writers & Writing Alices Vanishing Act BY DAPHNE MERKIN Alice James, the younger sister of Henry and William James, passed much of her life coveting death. She considered suicide most seriously...
Paid articleMyths and Mazola (November 1980)
Writers &Writing MYTHS AND MAZOLA BY DAPHNE MERKIN a c onsider the thin, crackly, wrapping paper skin of the onion, as I did this morning while cleaning out the refrigerator. It's like any...
Paid articleLearning From Nabokov (October 1980)
Writers &Writing LEARNING FROM NABOKOV by daphne merkin the kingdom of words Vladmir Nabokov's "fancy prose style," as Humbert Humbert calls it in the opening paragraphs of Lolita, reigns...
Paid articleConstricted Expectations (September 1980)
Writers & Writing CONSTRICTED EXPECTATIONS BY DAPHNE MERKIN The Middle Ground (Knopf, 277 pp., $10.95) is Margaret Drabble's ninth novel in almost twice as many years. She also has written a...
Paid articleLost Souls (July 1980)
Writers & Writirig LOST SOULS BY DAPHNE MERKIN Once upon a time, surely, the world made sense. The nostalgic Marxist critic, George Lukacs, in his classic The Theory of the Novel, connected the...
Paid articleShades of Darkness (June 1980)
Waiters &Writing SHADES OF DARKNESS by daphne merkin l .f there are few genuinely sunny literary temperaments??I can think offhand only of Fielding's and, further back, of Rabelais'??those...
Paid articleLife on a Dare (May 1980)
LIFE ON A CARE BY DAPHNE MERKIN In the archives of literary history the files on F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald must be crammed to bursting. His drinking and her madness have become the stuff of...
Paid articleThe Energy of Ennui (March 1980)
Writers &Writing THE ENERGY OFENNU by daphne merkin T he rMAGrNATrvELY venturesome, as if to maintain the delicate balance of human nature, are often socially withdrawn. It is difficult to...
Paid articleDivine Misfits (February 1980)
Writers & Writing DIVINE MISFITS by daphne merkin Just as being born is not a matter of choice, so most of us have little say in the making of our childhoods What is negotiable is how we use the...
Paid articleFamily Affairs (January 1980)
FAMLY AFFAIRS BY DAPHNE MERKIN A JL JLlthough I have been an admirer of William Maxwell's novel of adolescent yearning, The Folded Leaf, and of his redolent short stories, I was unprepared for...
Paid articlePolished Performances (December 1979)
Wfriters &Writing POUSHED PERFORMANCES BY DAPHNE MERKIN w. hen I think of V. S. Pritchett, I think of the three Chinamen in the final lines of Yeats' poem, "Lapis Lazuli": "Their eyes mid many...
Paid articleMastering the Short Story (December 1979)
Writers &Writing MASTERING THE SHORT STORY BY DAPHNE MERKIN John Updike is an eminence grise of the short-story form. I imagine him writing them almost in his sleep, determined to retain a scrap...
Paid articleMailer's Cool Killer (November 1979)
Writers &v Writing MAILER'S COOL KILLER by daphne merkin Throughout his long career, violent and irregular passion has been Norman Mailer's consuming interest. A collection of poems, an early...
Paid articlePressured Lives (October 1979)
Writers &Writiiig PRESSURED LIVES BY DAPHNE MERKIN a quiet room in a peaceable kingdom most conducive to artistic creation? To accept this we have only to look at Jane Austen, flourishing her...
Paid articleRoth's Promise (October 1979)
Writers&Writing ROTH'S PROMISE by daphne merkin on the evidence of his latest novel, The Ghost Writer (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 180 pp., $8.95), Philip Roth continues to be a promising writer....
Paid articleDidion Looking Down (July 1979)
Writers & Writing DIDION LOOKING DOWN BY DAPHNE MERKIN Try to imagine Franz Kafka speeding along a California freeway, or sitting around with some rock musicians, or lolling on a Honolulu beach...
Paid articleLiterary Portraits (July 1979)
WHters & Writing LITERARY PORTRAITS by daphne merkin T he habit of reading takes deepest root, I would guess, in those whose idea of communion is slightly imperious—who want to know others...
Paid articleGrowing Up in America (June 1979)
Writers &Writing GROWING UP INAMKCA BY DAPHNE MERKIN T JL. he nuclear family, that so-called haven in a heartless world, has been hard hit in recent times. Television, always sensitive to...
Paid articlePrivileged Lives (May 1979)
\\friters &\^iting PRIVILEGED UVES BY DAPHNE MERKIN c all her, in this instance, Natasya. It happens that she likes her real name—it is one of the nicer attributes her parents have bequeathed...
Paid articleThe Art of Lying (April 1979)
\\friters & Writing THE ART OF LYING BY DAPHNE MERKIN f, as Oscar Wilde opined with characteristic irreverence, Art is only another name for Lying—"the telling of beautiful untrue things"—then...
Paid articleJewish Jokesters (March 1979)
Writers & Writing JEWISH JOKESTERS BY DAPHNE MERKIN ood as Gold (Simon & Schuster, 447 pp., $12.95) is a novel in which the milk of human kindness has permanently soured and all one can hope for...
Paid articleLords of the Polish Ghettos (March 1979)
Writers & Writing IORDSOF THE POLISH GHETTOS BY DAPHNE MERKIN maginlng evil inclines to the operatic, to black capes and blood-curdling screams. Such unsophisticated cliches may enable us to...
Paid articleFilm Critic's Fiction (January 1979)
Writers & Writing FILM CRITICS' FICTIONS BY DAPHNE MERKIN Periodically we try and do away with certain troublesome notions, like God and the novel, by issuing them death-notices. And, indeed, we...
Paid articleFrom Anger to Numbness (January 1979)
Writers &V\fating FROM ANGER TO NUMBNESS by daphne merkin V JL. unny men often begin as sad or angry little boys and go on to become??behind the armor of their jokes??unhappy grownups. John...
Paid articleCon Artists and Artists (January 1979)
Writers & Writing CON ARTISTS AND ARTISTS BY DAPHNE MERKIN As THE recent events in Guyana have demonstrated, our cherished freedom to choose from an exhaustive array of "lifestyles" is not...
Paid articleGetting Smart (December 1978)
Writers &Writing GETTING SMART by daphne merkin T he eight stories in Susan Sontag's /, Etcetera (Farrar Straus Giroux, 246 pp., $8.95) are all tricky, in the sense of being stunts—highwire acts...
Paid articleUpdike in Africa (December 1978)
WritersckWriting UPDIKE N AFRICA BY DAPHNE MERKIN ^ ohn Updike flits among the various literary modes the way other people change dress: He has published four volumes of poetry and a play; when...
Paid articleThe Riddle of E. M. Forster (November 1978)
Writers & Writing THE RIDDLE OF E.M.FORSTER BY DAPHNE MERKIN P.N. Furbank's E. M. Forster: A Life (Harcourt BraceJovanovich,618pp.,$19.95)isas exemplary a literary biography as one could wish...
Paid articleLove and Lust (October 1978)
Writers & WHting LCVE AND LUST BY DAPHNE MERKIN w. riting, however valiantly it summons up the image of potency, is in the last analysis impotent: "The keyhole of language," as Roland Barthes...
Paid articleEscaping Relations (July 1978)
Writers & Writing ESCAPING REATIONS BY DAPHNE MERKIN As the title of her powerful and unsettling first novel, Set in Motion (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 210 pp., $8.95), suggests, Valerie Martin...
Paid articleTale of a Woman Writer (March 1978)
Tale of a Woman Writer Listening to Billie By Alice Adams', Knopf. 215 pp. $7.95. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Contributor, "Commentary, " "New Republic" A curious and often overlooked aspect of...
Paid articleUnder the Shadow of the Sword (January 1978)
Writers & Writing UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE SWORD BY DAPHNE MERKIN While other literary critics have decamped to various cerebral refuges, where they produce fiercely private ruminations on the...
Paid articleA Writer Talking to Herself (December 1977)
A Writer Talking to Herself The Diary of Virginia Woolf Volume I (1915-1919) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 384 pp. $12.95. Reviewed by Daphne Merkin Contributor, "Commentary," "Midstream " The...
AuthorMerman, Benjamin
AuthorMerril, Herber M.
AuthorMerrill, Herbert M.
AuthorMERRITT, HENRY
AuthorMETCALF, DR. M. M.
AuthorMetcalf, George R.
AuthorMETZGER, WALTER P.
AuthorMEYER, Dr. ERNST W.
AuthorMEYER, ELIAHU SALPETER / EUGENE L.
AuthorMEYER, EUGENE L.
AuthorMEYER, HANS J. MORGENTHAU / REINHOLD NIEBUHR / GEORGE E. HERMAN / HOWARD NEMEROV / KARL E.
AuthorMEYER, HERBERT E
AuthorMEYER, KARL
AuthorMEYER, KARL E.
AuthorMEYER, PETER
AuthorMEYER, STEPHEN M.
AuthorMEYERS, A. HOWARD
AuthorMEYERS, JEFFREY
AuthorMeyrowitz, Nathan
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