Books
Television—Nothing but Ads
The War Between Adams and Hamilton
The Adams Papers: Volumes I through IV, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams L. H. Butterfield, editor (Harvard; $30) The Papers of Alexander Hamilton: Volumes I and II Harold C. Syrett, editor (Columbia; $25) READ MORE >>
The Queen and I
The Supreme Court Observed
Faulkner: End of a Road
The Mansion By William Faulkner (Random House, $4.75) READ MORE >>
The Atheism of Bertrand Russell and Julian Huxley
The Story Teller's Story
I have lately reread the interviews with novelists and short-story writers that have appeared four times a year in The Paris Review. By now there are more than twenty of these, including two or three unpublished ones that I have seen in manuscript. Some are decidedly better or worse than others, but as a group they are about the most interesting series of the kind to be read in English. READ MORE >>
Justice and the Death Penalty
A review of Reflections on Hanging, by Arthur Koestler. Arthur Koestler has treated his adopted country to a philippic on the one issue on which a continental may rightfully criticize the quality of English justice: the question of capital punishment. READ MORE >>
John Milton Muddles Through
Some people call this a critical, as opposed to a creative, age. I doubt whether it is either. Certainly so many thousands of professed poets write and publish that a great need has arisen for critics to assess their worth; but the criticism racket, to judge from the advanced literary journals that people send me, is about as bankrupt as the poetry racket. READ MORE >>
A Poet Who Cannot Pause
A review of Hypnos Waking, by René Char. READ MORE >>
