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Archibald MacLeish and the word --
Van Wyck Brooks's second phase --
The boys in the back room: James M. Cain ; John O'Hara ; William Saroyan ; Hans Otto Storm ; John Steinbeck ; Facing the Pacific --
Max Eastman in 1941 --
T.K. Whipple --
The antrobuses and the earwickers --
Alexander Woollcott of the phalanx --
The poetry of Angelica Balabanoff --
Mr. Joseph E. Davies as a stylist --
Thoughts on being bibliographed --
Through the embassy window: Harold Nicolson --
Kay Boyle and the Saturday Evening Post --
The life and times of John Barrymore --
"Never apologize, never explain": the art of Evelyn Waugh --
John Mulholland and the art of illusion --
What became of Louis Bromfield --
J. Dover Wilson on Falstaff --
A toast and a tear for Dorothy Parker --
A treatise on tales of horror --
A guide to Finnegans wake --
A novel by Salvador Dali --
A long talk about Jane Austen --
"You can't do this to me!" shrilled Celia --
Aldous Huxley in the world beyond time --
Vladimir Nabokov on Gogol --
Katherine Anne Porter --
A picture to hang in the library: Brooks's Age of Irving --
Why do people read detective stories? --
Bernard Shaw on the training of a statesman --
Reexamining Dr. Johnson --
Leonid Leonov: the sophistication of a formula --
Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd? --
"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" --
Glenway Wescott's war work --
A cry from the unquiet grave --
Tales of the marvellous and the ridiculous --
Thackeray's letters: a Victorian document --
Splendors and miseries of Evelyn Waugh --
George Saintsbury's centenary --
Ambushing a best-seller --
The apotheosis of Somerset Maugham --
William Saroyan and his darling old Providence --
Oscar Wilde: "One must always seek what is most tragic" --
George Grosz in the United States --
An old friend of the family: Thackeray --
Gilbert without Sullivan --
George Saintsbury: gourmet and glutton --
Books of etiquette and Emily Post --
A dissenting opinion on Kafka --
Jean-Paul Sartre: the novelist and the existentialist --
The musical glasses of Peacock --
Edith Wharton: a memoir by an English friend --
The sanctity of Baudelaire --
Van Wyck Brooks on the Civil War period --
An analysis of Max Beerbohm --
The original of Tolstoy's Natasha --
"The most unhappy man on Earth" --
William Faulkner's reply to the civil-rights program --
In memory of Octave Mirbeau --
A revival of Ronald Firbank --
Paul Rosenfeld: three phases. |
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