Books
The Spell of Fagin
A Keynes for All Seasons
Sex Provided
Edmund Wilson in the 1930s
Poetry
Never have so many written with such technical skill: this remark, as often an expression of frustration and dismay as of admiration, has become a commonplace of poetry criticism in the 1970s. Never, of course, have so many written. And published. And competed for a lamentably small audience: there are perhaps more writers than readers of poetry at the present time. READ MORE >>
Full Disclosure
In its long and distinguished history, The New Republic is again about to break new groun: the first four fold table in a book review. (I am feeling the same pangs of achievement as when I invented the "illustrated footnote" while writing a history of American political cartoons.) The purpose of the following table is to establish some distinctions for reviewing a novel that is not by Saul Bellow and does not pretend to be. READ MORE >>
The Metropolitan Opera
Half Lesson
Watchmen in the Night by Theodore C. Sorensen MIT Press; $8.95 "Watergate is like a Rorschach," Aaron Wildavsky observed at a Washington seminar last year. "If you want to know what anyone thinks is wrong with the country, ask him what Watergate has to teach us." READ MORE >>
