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69-76
September 2008
Article
Radiant poison:
Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and the end of the Jew as metaphor
By
Vivian Gornick
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Herzog
(Book)
;
I can get it for you wholesale
(Book)
;
Weidman, Jerome
;
Misogyny in literature
;
Roth, Philip
;
Pictorial works
;
Portnoy's complaint
(Book)
;
Bellow, Saul
;
The adventures of Augie March
(Book)
PDF
FREE TEXT
IMAGES
33-36
November 1999
Readings/Article
Is there a dead mule in it?
By
Jerry Leath Mills
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Death in literature
;
In literature
;
Mules
PDF
IMAGES
26
November 1997
Readings/Article
Antibacterial classics
SEE ALSO:
Advertising, Public service
;
American literature
;
Hand washing
;
Parodies, imitations, etc.
;
Pittsburgh
PDF
IMAGES
7-9
October 1997
Notebook/Article
Ars longa, vita brevis
By
Lewis H. Lapham
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Appreciation
;
Literature and society
;
Vocational guidance
PDF
IMAGES
35
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Lewis H. Lapham
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
36
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Mary Hood
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Hood, Mary
PDF
IMAGES
36-38
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Madison Smartt Bell
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Bell, Madison Smartt
PDF
IMAGES
38
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Lee Smith
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Smith, Lee
PDF
IMAGES
38-40
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Harry Crews
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Crews, Harry
PDF
IMAGES
40-41
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
William Price Fox
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Fox, William Price
PDF
IMAGES
41-42
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Leon V. Driskell
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Driskell, Leon V.
PDF
IMAGES
42-43
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Richard Ford
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Ford, Richard
PDF
IMAGES
43-45
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Lee K. Abbott
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Abbott, Lee K.
PDF
IMAGES
45
August 1986
Article
[Untitled Article]
By
Leigh Allison Wilson
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authorship
;
Wilson, Leigh Allison
PDF
IMAGES
8-9
February 1985
Notebook/Article
Weimar revisited
By
Lewis H. Lapham
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
1918-1933
PDF
IMAGES
30-32
February 1985
Readings/Article
The romance of oppression
By
Philip Roth
and
Hermione Lee
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authors, Czech
;
Czech literature
;
Interviews
;
Roth, Philip
PDF
IMAGES
41-56
September 1981
Article
Panic among the Philistines:
The literary vulgarians
By
Bryan F. Griffin
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Literature
;
Novelists, American
;
Pornography
PDF
IMAGES
37-52
August 1981
Article
Panic among the Philistines:
The collapse of the literary establishment
By
Bryan F. Griffin
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Literary movements
;
Novelists, American
PDF
IMAGES
77-92
November 1977
Article
A conspiracy of silence
By
Joseph Epstein
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Conspiracies
;
Doctorow, E.L.
;
Literature and society
;
Robert Coover
;
The book of Daniel
(Book)
;
The public burning
(Book)
PDF
IMAGES
41-60
September 1976
Article
Newspapers, women, and beer
By
H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Correspondence
;
Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis)
;
Periodical editors
;
Portraits
PDF
IMAGES
49-64
October 1969
Article
In the country of the young [part I]
By
John W. Aldridge
SEE ALSO:
Aesthetics, American
;
American literature
;
Baby boom generation
;
Conflict of generations
;
1945-1970
;
Quality of life
;
Youth
PDF
IMAGES
151-156
November 1965
Article
Greatness as a literary standard
By
Stanley Kauffmann
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Best books
;
Canon (Literature)
;
Criticism
PDF
IMAGES
58-68
September 1965
Article
A country and some people I love
By
Enrique Hank Lopez
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Interviews
;
Journeys
;
Porter, Katherine Anne
;
Personal narratives, American
;
Portraits
;
Revolution, 1910-1920
;
Women authors, American
PDF
IMAGES
173-175
April 1965
Article
Notes on the literary scene:
Their own language
By
Louis Decimus Rubin
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Barth, John
;
Styron, William
PDF
IMAGES
88-95
December 1963
Article
The angry young women
By
Ellen Moers
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Brontë, Charlotte
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Gaskell, Elizabeth Cleghorn
;
English literature
;
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
;
Views on women authors
;
Woolf, Virginia
;
Women authors
;
Women authors, American
PDF
IMAGES
52-58
January 1960
Article
The many faces of communism:
The theological society (part I)
By
Arthur Meier Schlesinger
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier
;
Brainwashing
;
Career as Soviet premier
;
Communism
;
Communism and literature
;
Ideology
;
Journeys
;
Journeys—Soviet Union
;
1945-1991
;
Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich
;
Chayefsky, Paddy
;
Societies, etc.
;
Soviet literature
PDF
IMAGES
162-166
October 1959
Article
Which side of the Atlantic?
By
C.P. (Charles Percy) Snow
SEE ALSO:
American influences
;
American literature
;
College teachers as authors
;
English influences
;
English literature
PDF
IMAGES
25-33
July 1956
Article
What's American about America?
By
John Atlee Kouwenhoven
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Jazz
;
Twain, Mark
;
Process philosophy
;
Skyscrapers
;
Whitman, Walt
PDF
IMAGES
69-72
October 1955
Article
Dear Louisa
By
Eleanor Spencer Stone Perényi
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Alcott, Louisa May
;
Women authors
;
Women authors, American
PDF
IMAGES
278-287
October 1950
New books/Article
The writer's lot
By
Richard Halworth Rovere
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Melville, Herman
;
Views on American literature
PDF
IMAGES
36-40
July 1948
Article
Henry James and the artist in America
By
W.H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
James, Henry
PDF
IMAGES
423-432
November 1947
Article
The new generation of writers:
With some reflections on the older ones
By
John W. Aldridge
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Literary movements
PDF
IMAGES
267-272
September 1945
Article
French and American pessimism
By
Albert J. (Albert Joseph) Guérard
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Appreciation
;
Existentialism
;
Sartre, Jean Paul
;
Philosophy
PDF
IMAGES
PAGE MISSING
206-208
August 1945
Personal and otherwise/Article
Way down on the Sewanee's rating
By
Frederick Lewis Allen
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
470-473
October 1944
Article
Renegotiate the English teachers!
By
E.C. Drake
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
338-341
September 1943
The easy chair/Article
The easy chair
By
Bernard Augustine De Voto
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
In literature
;
Literature and history
;
1919-1933
PDF
IMAGES
437-440
March 1943
The easy chair/Article
The easy chair
By
Bernard Augustine De Voto
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Literature and the war
PDF
IMAGES
445-448
September 1941
The easy chair/Article
Under which king, Bezonian?
By
Bernard Augustine De Voto
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Literature and society
;
Politics and literature
PDF
IMAGES
270-278
August 1940
Article
Business men, get a writer!
By
St. Clair McKelway
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Businessmen
;
Social status
PDF
IMAGES
177-185
January 1940
Article
Since yesterday:
The social climate of the nineteen-thirties
By
Frederick Lewis Allen
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Art, American
;
Mass media and culture
;
Nineteen thirties
PDF
IMAGES
333-336
February 1938
The easy chair/Article
Friday afternoon at Country Day
By
Bernard Augustine De Voto
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
American poetry
;
Literature and society
PDF
IMAGES
486-496
October 1936
Article
Searching for roots in America
By
John Hyde Preston
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Homes and haunts
;
Preston, John Hyde
;
Philosophy
PDF
IMAGES
274-282
August 1936
Article
Post-war:
The literary twenties
By
Carl Van Doren
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Career as author
;
Van Doren, Carl
;
Literature and society
;
Youth
PDF
IMAGES
148-156
July 1936
Article
Post-war:
The literary twenties [part I]
By
Carl Van Doren
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Career as author
;
Van Doren, Carl
;
Friends and associates
PDF
IMAGES
221-224
July 1936
The easy chair/Article
Notes on the red Parnassus
By
Bernard Augustine De Voto
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism
;
Politics and literature
PDF
IMAGES
98-107
June 1930
Article
The new masculinism
By
Lillian Symes
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Anti-feminism
;
Feminism and literature
;
Women authors
PDF
IMAGES
93-100
December 1928
Article
The novel in the South
By
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
51-58
June 1928
Article
The future of America:
A cultural forecast
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism
;
Forecasting
;
Leisure
PDF
IMAGES
509-515
September 1927
Article
On making low people interesting
By
Albert Jay Nock
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Characters and characteristics in literature
;
English literature
;
Picaresque literature
;
Social classes in literature
;
Technique
PDF
IMAGES
286-294
August 1926
Article
In time of confusion
By
Henry Seidel Canby
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
English literature
PDF
IMAGES
618-621
April 1926
Article
Two Americans and a whale:
Some fruits of a London luncheon
By
H.M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson
SEE ALSO:
American books abroad
;
American literature
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Thoreau, Henry David
;
Melville, Herman
;
Whitman, Walt
PDF
IMAGES
407-410
August 1922
The lion's mouth/Article
When is a Ford not a Ford?
By
Philip Everett Curtiss
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Anonyms and pseudonyms, American
;
Names in literature
PDF
IMAGES
391-393
February 1922
The lion's mouth/Article
Sans-culottism
By
Charles T. White
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Canon (Literature)
;
Reconstruction
PDF
IMAGES
709-714
November 1921
Article
Anglomania
By
Henry Seidel Canby
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
English influences
;
Foreign public opinion, American
PDF
IMAGES
107-116
June 1921
Article
Literature and bad nerves
By
Wilson Follett
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Futurism (Literary movement)
;
Modernism (Aesthetics)
PDF
IMAGES
278-280
January 1920
Editor's easy chair/Article
Editor's easy chair
By
William Dean Howells
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Influence
;
1865-1918
PDF
IMAGES
800-802
April 1916
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Humanism
;
Puritans
PDF
IMAGES
961-964
November 1915
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Aristocracy (Social class)
;
Democracy
;
Mediocrity
PDF
IMAGES
476-478
August 1909
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Canon (Literature)
;
Child rearing
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
James, Henry
PDF
IMAGES
151-154
June 1908
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
City and town life
PDF
IMAGES
313-316
July 1907
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Authors and readers
;
English literature
;
Themes, motives
PDF
IMAGES
807-810
April 1907
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
American periodicals
;
Literature
;
Publishing
PDF
IMAGES
476-478
February 1906
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Plots (Drama, novel, etc.)
;
Popular literature
PDF
IMAGES
646-648
September 1904
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Style, Literary
PDF
IMAGES
735-741
October 1903
Article
The South in American letters
By
George Edward Woodberry
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
646-648
September 1903
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
424-430
February 1903
Article
The literary age of Boston
By
George Edward Woodberry
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
;
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
;
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
PDF
IMAGES
329-332
January 1903
Editor's study/Article
Editor's study
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
677-683
October 1902
Article
Knickerbocker era of American letters
By
George Edward Woodberry
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Cooper, James Fenimore
;
Irving, Washington
;
Bryant, William Cullen
PDF
IMAGES
802-805
October 1902
Editor's easy chair/Article
Editor's easy chair
By
William Dean Howells
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Appreciation
;
Essay
;
Popular literature
PDF
IMAGES
232-238
July 1902
Article
Beginnings of American literature
By
George Edward Woodberry
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
;
English influences
;
Puritans
;
Revolutionary period, 1775-1783
PDF
IMAGES
947-962
May 1900
Article
Fifty years of
Harper's Magazine
By
Henry Mills Alden
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Career in publishing
;
Alden, Henry Mills
;
Publishers and publishing
PDF
IMAGES
480-481
February 1898
Editor's study/Article
— (II)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
1865-1918
PDF
IMAGES
314-315
July 1897
Editor's study/Article
— (II)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Canon (Literature)
;
Critics
;
Brunetière, F.
;
Views on literary criticism
PDF
IMAGES
476-478
August 1896
Editor's study/Article
— (I-III)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Canon (Literature)
;
Criticism
;
French literature
PDF
IMAGES
313-314
July 1895
Editor's study/Article
— (IV)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism
;
Foreign public opinion, English
PDF
IMAGES
482-484
February 1895
Editor's study/Article
— (II)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
British influences
;
Canon (Literature)
PDF
IMAGES
801-802
October 1894
Editor's study/Article
— (IV)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Canon (Literature)
;
Journeys—New England
;
Literary journeys
;
Howells, William Dean
PDF
IMAGES
800-802
April 1894
Editor's study/Article
— (II)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Appreciation
;
Criticism
;
1865-1918
PDF
IMAGES
637-639
March 1894
Editor's study/Article
— (I-II)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
English literature
;
Chaucer, Geoffrey
;
Lake poets
;
Originality (Aesthetics)
PDF
IMAGES
153-156
December 1893
Editor's study/Article
— (III-V, VII)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Criticism
PDF
IMAGES
150-151
December 1892
Editor's study/Article
— (III)
By
Charles Dudley Warner
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Canon (Literature)
PDF
IMAGES
962-966
November 1891
Editor's study/Article
— (I-VII)
By
William Dean Howells
SEE ALSO:
American books abroad
;
American literature
;
Appreciation
;
Foreign public opinion, British
;
Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
;
Views on American literature
;
Whitman, Walt
PDF
IMAGES
PAGE MISSING
164-285
July 1891
Article
Oliver Wendell Holmes
By
George William Curtis
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Biography
;
Holmes, Oliver Wendell
PDF
IMAGES
476-481
August 1890
Editor's study/Article
— (I-VII)
By
William Dean Howells
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Anonymous writings, American
;
Criticism
;
English literature
;
Farrar, Frederic William
;
Journalistic ethics
;
Views on criticism
PDF
IMAGES
155-159
December 1889
Editor's study/Article
— (I-V)
By
William Dean Howells
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Christmas in literature
;
Periodicals
;
Thanksgiving Day
PDF
IMAGES
317-318
July 1888
Editor's study/Article
— (IV)
By
William Dean Howells
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Art criticism
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Arnold, Matthew
;
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
;
Views on American literature
PDF
IMAGES
469-470
February 1888
Editor's easy chair/Article
Editor's easy chair
By
George William Curtis
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Appreciation
;
Copyright, International
;
Lowell, James Russell
;
Riley, James Whitcomb
;
Performances
PDF
IMAGES
803
October 1887
Editor's study/Article
— (III)
By
William Dean Howells
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
English influences
;
De Forest, John William
;
Views on American readers
PDF
IMAGES
837-855
May 1887
Article
The recent movement in Southern literature
By
Charles Washington Coleman
SEE ALSO:
Ryan, Abram Joseph
;
Rives, Amélie
;
American literature
;
Longstreet, Augustus Baldwin
;
Tucker, Beverley
;
Craddock, Charles Egbert
;
Criticism and interpretation
;
Poe, Edgar Allan
;
Baylor, Frances Courtenay
;
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
;
Stockton, Frank Richard
;
Cable, George Washington
;
King, Grace Elizabeth
;
Edwards, Harry Stillwell
;
Allen, James Lane
;
Harris, Joel Chandler
;
Cooke, John Esten
;
Kennedy, John Pendleton
;
Magruder, Julia
;
Hearn, Lafcadio
;
McClelland, M.G. (Mary Greenway)
;
Preston, Margaret Junkin
;
Tiernan, Mary Spear
;
Magill, Mary Tucker
;
Thompson, Maurice
;
Harrison, Burton, Mrs.
;
Hayne, Paul Hamilton
;
Portraits
;
Johnston, Richard Malcolm
;
Wilson, Robert Burns
;
Peck, Samuel Minturn
;
Lanier, Sidney
;
Page, Thomas Nelson
;
Simms, William Gilmore
;
Hayne, William Hamilton
;
Women authors, American
PDF
IMAGES
PAGE MISSING
812-833
November 1886
Article
The literary movement in New York
By
George Parsons Lathrop
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Matthews, Brander
;
Howard, Bronson
;
De Kay, Charles
;
Nordhoff, Charles
;
Fawcett, Edgar
;
Stedman, Edmund Clarence
;
Eggleston, Edward
;
Roe, Edward Payson
;
Bunner, H.C. (Henry Cuyler)
;
Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth
;
Homes and haunts
;
McMaster, John Bach
;
Burroughs, John
;
Habberton, John
;
Hawthorne, Julian
;
Portraits
;
Stoddard, Richard Henry
;
Gilder, Richard Watson
;
Societies, etc.
;
Whitman, Walt
;
Carleton, Will
;
Women authors, American
PDF
IMAGES
486-487
February 1886
Editor's study/Article
— (VI)
By
William Dean Howells
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
1865-1918
PDF
IMAGES
149-150
December 1883
Editor's easy chair/Article
Editor's easy chair
By
George William Curtis
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Boston (Mass.)
PDF
IMAGES
627-628
March 1883
Editor's easy chair/Article
Editor's easy chair
By
George William Curtis
SEE ALSO:
American books abroad
;
American literature
;
Appreciation—England
;
Appreciation—United States
;
Irving, Washington
PDF
IMAGES
302-303
January 1883
Editor's easy chair/Article
Editor's easy chair
By
George William Curtis
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Appreciation
;
English literature
PDF
IMAGES
626-628
September 1881
Editor's easy chair/Article
Editor's easy chair
By
George William Curtis
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Characters and characteristics in literature
PDF
IMAGES
144-145
June 1881
Editor's easy chair/Article
Editor's easy chair
By
George William Curtis
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Anecdotes
;
Appreciation
;
Irving, Washington
PDF
IMAGES
514-533
March 1876
Article
The first century of the republic. (Seventeenth paper.) American literature. (Concluded.)
By
Edwin Percy Whipple
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
401-420
February 1876
Article
The first century of the republic. (Sixteenth paper.) American literature. I.
By
Edwin Percy Whipple
SEE ALSO:
American literature
PDF
IMAGES
611-614
April 1867
Article
Chaucer's Grisildis
By
Susan M. Waring
SEE ALSO:
American literature
;
Chaucer, Geoffrey
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The tales of the clerk; and, the wife of Ba