Irving Howe

The Old Magician

  Reading the aged Tolstoy stirs the heart. He will not yield to time, sloth, or nature. He clings to the waist of the life force. Deep into old age, he battles with the world, more often with himself, returning in his diaries, fictions, and tracts to the unanswerable questions that torment him. Blessed old magician, he is free of literary posture and the sins of eloquence. READ MORE >>

Faulkner: End of a Road

The Mansion By William Faulkner (Random House, $4.75)   READ MORE >>

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