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Rabbit Punches Squaring Off Mailer vs Baldwin By W.J. Weatherby Mason/Charter 217 pp $9.95 Reviewed by Raymond Rosenthal Critic translator, "Simone Well A Life" We in the age ot stars-stars of...

A Great Creative Act (August 1977)

A Great Creative Act History: A Novel By Elsa Morante Translated by William Weaver Knopf. 554 pp. $10.95. Reviewed by Raymond Rosenthal Critic; translator, "Simone Weil: A Life" Elsa...

The Art of Seeing (May 1977)

The Art of Seeing The Gentle Barbarian: The Life and Work of Turgenev By V. S. Pritchett Random House. 241 pp. $10.00.1 Reviewed by Raymond Rosenthal Critic, translator, "Simone Weil: A...

Inhibited Introspection (March 1976)

Inhibited Introspection Tennessee Williams: A Memoir Doubleday. 252 pp. $8.95. Reviewed by Raymond Rosenthal Translator, Pietro Citati's "Goethe" Whatever your feelings about him, there is no...

Fossilized Socialist, Soured Enthusiast (May 1971)

Fossilized Socialist, Soured Enthusiast George Orwell By Raymond Williams Viking. 97 pp. $4.95. Marshall McLuhan By Jonathan Miller Viking. 120 pp. $4.95. Reviewed by Raymond...

Homelife of a Satirist (September 1968)

WRITERSfc & WRITING Homelife of a Satirist By Raymond Rosenthal In my reviewing youth I once wrote a piece about H.L. Mencken which, if age is supposed to add to our wisdom, should make me...

Bulgakov's Sentimental Devil (November 1967)

Bulgakov's Sentimental Devil By Raymond Rosenthal Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita was written in the late '20s, when the Bolshevik Revolution--originally seen by the literati as a...

America's No. 1 Disc Jockey (September 1967)

WRITERS & WRITING America's No. 1 Disc Jockey By Raymond Rosenthal With his new novel, Why Are We in Vietnam? (Putnam, 204 pp., $4.95) Norman Mailer has sunk his talents deeper into the Pop Art...

Bogged Down (September 1967)

Bogged Down By Raymond Rosenthal Rather meek professor of the humanities at MIT named Louis Kamp goes to a play named The Connection and has what amounts to a revelation He is a special kind of...

Death as a Middle-Class Hobby (August 1967)

WRITERS WRITING Death as a Middle-Class Hobby By Raymond Rosenthal Many people will be surprised to learn that Susan Sontag, besides her fame as a critic, can also claim a certain importance as a...

What the Old Man Said' (July 1967)

WRITERS WRITING 'What the Old Man Said' By Raymond Rosenthal During the final year of his life, Frank O'Connor, the important Irish storyteller who died last March delivered a series of lectures...

In the New York Style (July 1967)

WRITERS & WRITING In the New York Style By Raymond Rosenthal New York, as Paul Goodman has said, is an empire city, with all the pomp and misery, the glory and distress that the title implies. It...

Weak Men, Furious Women (June 1967)

WRITERS & WRITING Weak Men, Furious Women By Raymond Rosenthal IN His latest novel, When She Was Good (Random House, 306 pp., $5.95), Philip Roth has decided?presumably on the basis of his...

McLuhan's Tom-Toms (May 1967)

WRITERS & WRITING McLuhan's Tom-Toms By Raymond Rosenthal On the job, Marshall McLuhan wears the severe, no-nonsense white coat and rubber gloves of the laboratory technician immersed in his...

The Oldest Story (March 1967)

WRITERS (^WRITING The Oldest Story By Raymond Rosenthal On the surface, Natalia Ginzburg's Family Sayings, translated by D. M. Low (E. P. Dutton, 225 pp., $5.75), is a simple chronicle of family...

Tolstoy Today (February 1967)

WRITERS & WRITING Tolstoy Today By Raymond Rosenthal It comes as a surprise to realize that John Bayley's new critical study, Tolstoy and the Novel (Viking, 316 pp., $6.95) is the first...

The Way the Land Lies (January 1967)

WRITERS WRITING The Way the Land Lies By Raymond Rosenthal When I was a kid of about eight or nine I lived with an aunt in Paterson, New Jersey, and spent a lot of time on my bike. Up into the...

The Edenic Impulse (January 1967)

WRITERS^WRITING The Edenic Impulse By Raymond Rosenthal Edward Dahlberg knows where paradise is located, though he doesn't inhabit it. His career in fact describes, with a consciousness seldom...

Body and Spirit (January 1967)

WRITERS WRITING Body and Spirit By Raymond Rosenthal When Paul Goodman gave up wit and launched into the labyrinth of social disorder, American letters lost a fine short story writer and,...

The First Casanova (December 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING The First Casanova By Raymond Rosenthal Casanova, so the story goes, began writing his memoirs when he lost most of his teeth and could no longer publicly recount those lengthy...

French Contrasts (November 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING French Contrasts By Raymond Rosenthal Andre Maurois is intelligent, tactful, sensitive. All of these qualities, not so common that they can be scorned, are to be found in his...

The Politics of Style (November 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING The Politics of Style By Raymond Rosenthal During the past week men have slogged their way through malarial jungles, sweated in steaming asbestos factories, groaned beneath the...

Angels and Enchanters (October 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Angels and Enchanters By Raymond Rosenthal I must admit that I prefer Iris Murdoch when she is in a gay, buoyantly aloof mood, or an utterly playful one. None of her novels have...

A Christian Problem (September 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING A Christian Problem By Raymond Rosenthal I can easily imagine some friend of Malamud's, after hearing of his plan to write a novel set in Russia, saying to him: "For God's...

Good Movies and Bad Marriages (August 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Good Movies and Bad Marriages By Raymond Rosenthal The new anthology of fiction, drama, poetry and criticism, Modern Occasions (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 369 pp., $6.95),...

The Nub of the Node (August 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING The Nub of the Node By Raymond Rosenthal Kingsley Amis' latest novel, The Anti-Death League (Harcourt, Brace and World, 307 pp., $5.95) is a fairy tale in which the good...

Bohemian from the Sage-Brush (July 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Bohemian from the Sage-Brush By Raymond Rosenthal Justin Kaplan begins his biography of Mark Twain (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain, Atheneum, 424 pp., $7.95) when his subject is...

The Humor of Destiny (July 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING The Humor of Destiny By Raymond Rosenthal At the age of 25, with two books of poetry and four novels behind her, Marie-Claire Blais has published a new novel, A Season in...

The Ceremony of Innocence (June 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING The Ceremony of Innocence By Raymond Rosenthal Walker Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer, was deservedly well received. It was a surprising book, full of shrewd,...

Going Crazy in England (June 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Going Crazy in England By Raymond Rosenthal John gale, an English journalist, has turned away from reporting such public madnesses as the Algerian war and the attempted...

The Lost Treasure (May 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING The Lost Treasure By Raymond Rosenthal Cute Gothic would be a mild, good-humored way of describing Thomas Pynchon's literary manner. Certain critics have compared him to S....

The Darkness of the Glass (May 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING The Darkness of the Glass By Raymond Rosenthal While other writers, even some of the greatest, have only an ideology or philosophy, Isaac Bashevis Singer is the possessor...

A Dying Species (April 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING A Dying Species By Raymond Rosenthal Lists are everyone's secret vice. This childish, vicarious pleasure in hoarding and arranging, however, is the critic's particular...

Beholden to Friendship (April 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Beholden to Friendship By Raymond Rosenthal Paul Valery met Andre Gide when he was 19 and Gide was two years older. They were both living in the provinces and yearning for...

Death, Take Over (March 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Death, Take Over By Raymond Rosenthal William Burroughs' chief qualities as a writer of fiction are: a long memory for third-rate surrealistic prose of the Blaise Cendrars...

Touching the Soil of Reality (March 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Touching the Soil of Reality By Raymond Rosenthal What does the Italian avant-garde writer think of when he sits down to write his novel? Inevitably, his family, himself,...

Lover's Quarrel with America (February 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Lover's Quarrel with America By Raymond Rosenthal Martin Green's book on American literature, Reappraisals: Some Commonsense Readings in American Literature (Norton, 250...

Over the Border to Haiti (February 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Over the Border to Haiti By Raymond Rosenthal In the old days Graham Greene would have called his latest novel (The Comedians, Viking, 309 pp., $5.95) an "entertainment" and...

Wrestling with the Angel (January 1966)

WRITERS & WRITING Wrestling with the Angel By Raymond Rosenthal Lionel Trilling has written a polemical book in an unpolemical manner. Perhaps this is the reason that the many pertinent and...

Wyndham Lewis (June 1965)

ARTIST AND RADICAL Wyndham Lewis By Raymond Rosenthal Great writers are supposed to create their own intellectual climate, thus hastening their acceptance and the understanding of their work. In...

Jacques Barzun: Cultural Ventriloquist (May 1964)

Jacques Barzun: Cultural Ventriloquist SCIENCE: THE GLORIOUS ENTERTAINMENT By Jacques Barzun Harper & Rowe 232 pp. $6.00. Reviewed by RAYMOND ROSENTHAL Contributor, "Commentary" Jacques...

The Quality of Modern Life (April 1964)

The Quality of Modern Life SELECTED ESSAYS: 1934-43 By Simone Weil edited and translated by Richard Rees Oxford. 231 pp. $7.00. Reviewed by RAYMOND ROSENTHAL Contributor,...

A Soft Word to the Wise (April 1963)

A Soft Word to the Wise THE VIKING BOOK OF APHORISMS: A PERSONAL SELECTION By W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger Viking. 405 pp. $6.50. Reviewed by RAYMOND ROSENTHAL Contributor,...

FABLE AND FACT IN ITALIAN FICTION (February 1963)

Fable and Fact in Italian Fiction THE NONEXISTENT KNIGHT and THE CLOVEN VISCOUNT By Italo Calvino Random. 246 pp. $3.95. THE MEN AT THE GATE By Ottiero Ottieri Houghton Mifflin. 244 pp....

Italy and Mass Culture (December 1962)

'THREE CHEERS FOR BACKWARDNESS' Italy and Mass Culture By Raymond Rosenthal It may seem incredible, but Italy, the home of Fascism and futurism, has only recently entered the modern world. I...

The Italian Maze (July 1960)

The Italian Maze Italy: A Modern History. By Denis Mack Smith. Michigan. 500 pp. $7.50. Reviewed by Raymond Rosenthal Contributor, "Commentary," New York "Times Book Review" THIS IS without...

Keepers of the Daemon (May 1958)

Keepers of the Daemon Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews. Ed. by Malcolm Cowley. Viking. 309 pp. $5.00. Reviewed by Raymond Rosenthal Contributor, N. Y. "Times Book Review," "Partisan...

The Vanishing Humanist (November 1957)

WRITERS and WRITING The Vanishing Humanist The Vanishing Hero. Reviewed by Raymond Rosenthal By Sean O'Faolain. Former editor, "Modem Review"; Little, Brown. 204 pp. $3.75. contributor,...

An Interview with Alberto Moravia (January 1957)

WRITERS and WRITING An Interview with Alberto Moravia Questions by Raymond Rosenthal All of us, would certainly like to write a War and Peace, but perhaps our true literary ambition is less...

A TEST OF THE ART-NOVEL (April 1949)

WRITERS and WRITING THE NEW LEADER LITERARY SECTION A Test of the Art-Novel Reviewed by RAYMOND ROSENTHAL THE HEAT OF THE DAY. By Elizabetfi Bowen. Alfred A. Knopf. $3.00. 372 pp. APOETRY...

QUICK-CHANGE ARTIST (February 1947)

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ROSHCO, BERNARD

ROSKOLENKO, HARRY

Rosner, Henry

Rosner, Henry J.

ROSS, ARTHUR

ROSS, BENJAMIN

ROSS, IRWIN

ROSS, MARTIN W.

ROSS, RALPH

ROSSITER, CLINTON