Brooks, Van Wyck (1886–1963)

WRITER OF
SUBJECT OF

ARTICLE (8)

83-85	June 1961 Article William Carlos Williams By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Biography; Williams, William Carlos PDF IMAGES
40-45	May 1954 Article Helen Keller By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Biography; Blind-deaf; Keller, Helen PDF IMAGES
46-53	June 1952 Article Lewis Mumford: American prophet By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Humanism; Mumford, Lewis; Philosophy; Social sciences; Technology and civilization; Views on civilization PDF IMAGES
554-563	May 1944 Article The wondrous West, 1800 By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: To 1848 PDF IMAGES
321-328	August 1940 Article Boston in the nineties: A second glimpse of New England's Indian summer By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Boston (Mass.) PDF IMAGES
138-146	July 1940 Article Dr. Holmes's Boston: New England after the flowering By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Boston (Mass.) PDF IMAGES
114-119	December 1926 Article Emerson and the reformers By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Alcott, Amos Bronson; Career as founder of Fruitlands community; Collective settlements; Friends and associates; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Social reformers; Transcendentalists (New England) PDF IMAGES
767-772	November 1926 Article Congenial Concord! An Emersonian episode By Van Wyck Brooks SEE ALSO: Biography; Concord (Mass.); Friends and associates; Thoreau, Henry David; Emerson, Ralph Waldo; Relationship with Ralph Waldo Emerson; Transcendentalists (New England); Channing, William Ellery PDF IMAGES

REVIEW (11)

93-94	July 1963 Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A ring of bells, poems of John Betjeman (Book); Ezickson, Aaron J.; Mizener, Arthur; Brophy, Brigid; Platt, Dorothy Falcon; Wallop, Douglass; Ardizzone, Edward; Eramus, with freckles (Book); Fitzgerald, F. Scott (Francis Scott); Flesh (Book); Rickett, Harold William; Douglas, Helen Gahagan; Slade, Irene; Haase, John; Walcott, Mary Vaux; Ocean front (Book); Wyden, Peter; Betjeman, John, Sir; The Eleanor Roosevelt we knew (Book); The Fitzgerald reader (Book); The hired killers (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Wild flowers of America (Book) PDF IMAGES
112	November 1962 The new books/Review A dozen for Christmas By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A New England reader (Book); A tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy (Book); American satire in prose and verse (Book); Griffin, Arthur; Skinner, Cornelia Otis; Jones, Cranston; Elegant wits and grand horizons (Book); Everyone but thee and me (Book); Williams, Garth; Gift wraps; Highet, Gilbert; Carlisle, Henry; Homes of the American Presidents (Book); Sharp, Margery; Miss Bianca (Book); New England (Book); Nash, Ogden; Wilde, Oscar; Wolff, Perry; Carson, Rachel; Sagendorph, Robb Hansell; Hart-Davis, Rupert; Chamberlain, Samuel; Silent spring (Book); The anatomy of satire (Book); The letters of Oscar Wilde (Book); The New England image (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Schleissner, William PDF IMAGES
100-103	December 1959 Books in brief/Review Books in brief By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: A mirror of the ministry in modern novels (Book); Cook, my darling daughter (Book); Cookery, American; Fannie Farmer cookbook (Book); Gentlemen, scholars and scoundrels (Book); Paloczi-Horvath, George; Good cooking (Book); Medina, Harold R. (Harold Raymond); Hit and run (Book); Horace Knowles; Davies, Horton; Howells: his life and world (Book); Creasey, John; Kieran, John; Krutch, Joseph Wood; Street, Julian; Smith, Lillian Eugenia; Chute, Marchette Gaylord; Knopf, Mildred O.; Natural history of New York City (Book); Roosevelt, Nicholas; One hour (Book); Poor no more (Book); Wolfe, Reese; Ruark, Robert Chester; Shakespeare and company (Book); Beach, Sylvia; Table topics (Book); The anatomy of freedom (Book); The garden world (Book); The monkeys have no tails in Zamboanga (Book); The undefeated (Book); Two gentlemen: the lives of George Herbert and Robert Herrick (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Perkins, Wilma Lord PDF IMAGES
82-96	April 1956 The new books/Review Political rhetoric, the decision-makers, and some innocents abroad By Paul Murphy Pickrel SEE ALSO: A perfect woman (Book); Affairs of state: the Eisenhower years (Book); Kilbracken, John Raymond Godley, Baron; Mills, C. Wright (Charles Wright); Daiches, David; Greene, Graham; Helen Keller: sketch for a portrait (Book); Shaw, Irwin; Markandaya, Kamala; Hartley, L.P. (Leslie Poles); Living like a lord (Book); Lucy Crown (Book); Revolt of the moderates (Book); Rovere, Richard Halworth; Chotzinoff, Samuel; Lubell, Samuel; Some inner fury (Book); The power elite (Book); The quiet American (Book); Toscanini: an intimate portrait (Book); Two worlds: an Edinburgh Jewish childhood (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck PDF IMAGES
107-108	March 1956 Books in brief/Review Forecast By Katherine Gauss Jackson SEE ALSO: Hoehling, A.A. (Adolph A.); Friedman, Albert B.; Detective and mystery stories; Don't look back! (Book); Grierson, Edward; Gardner, Erle Stanley; Evenings with the orchestra (Book); Gardening; Simenon, Georges; Geraniums for windows and gardens (Book); Stone, Hampton; Berlioz, Hector; Helen Keller: sketch for a portrait (Book); Wilson, Helen Van Pelt; How to make cut flowers last (Book); Hunt the man down (Book); Inspector Maigret and the burglar's wife (Book); Barzun, Jacques; Dineen, Joseph F.; Erskine, Margaret; Hoehling, Mary Duprey; Men and gardens (Book); Borgenicht, Miriam; Murder is where you find it (Book); Music; Music in America (Book); Mystery stories (Book); Fairbrother, Nan; Orchestral accents (Book); Stout, Rex; Richard Korn; Hansen, Robert P.; Chotzinoff, Samuel; Ellin, Stanley; The case of the demure defendant (Book); The last voyage of the Lusitania (Book); The second man (Book); The strangler who wouldn't let go (Book); The Viking book of folk ballads of the English speaking world (Book); The voice of murder (Book); Three witnesses, a Nero Wolfe threesome (Book); Toscanini: an intimate portrait (Book); Underworld U.S.A. (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Kasperski, Victoria R.; Pearson, William PDF IMAGES
93-100	April 1954 The new books/Review Welcome spring By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: Boucher, Anthony; Bhowani Junction (Book); Cassell's encyclopaedia of world literature (Book); Barnhart, Clarence Lewis; Windsor, Edward, Duke of; Walter, Eugene; Kerr, Geoffrey; God's country and mine (Book); McComas, J. Francis; Barzun, Jacques; Masters, John; Hayes, Joseph Arnold; Moscow (Book); Peter Domanig in America: steel (Book); Berton, Pierre; Knox, Ronald Arbuthnott; Steinberg, S.H.(Sigfrid Henry); Scenes and portraits (Book); Eliot, T.S. (Thomas Stearns); The best from fantasy and science fiction (Book); The confidential clerk (Book); The crown and the people (Book); The desperate hours (Book); The new century cyclopedia of names (Book); The New Testament (Book); The royal family (Book); The untidy pilgrim (Book); Plivier, Theodor; Under the influence (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; White, Victor PDF IMAGES
100-107	April 1953 New books/Review Hail and farewell By Gilbert Highet SEE ALSO: Toynbee, Arnold Joseph; McMillion, Bonner; Burney, Christopher; Cushman, Dan; Diogenes I (American periodical); Divine horsemen: the living gods of Haiti (Book); Orwell, George; Fowler, Helen; Kennedy, Jay Richard; Sedges, John; Berrey, Lester V.; Murray, Margaret Alice; Picard, Max; Deren, Maya; Harris, Mel; Van den Bark, Melvin; Naked Hollywood (Book); Prince Bart (Book); Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson); Solitary confinement (Book); Stay away Joe (Book); Such, such were the joys (Book); The American thesaurus of slang (Book); The god of the witches (Book); The intruder (Book); The lot of her neighbors (Book); The puppet masters (Book); The world and the West (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Voices in the house (Book); Lowrey, Walter; Watch night (Book); Weegee; World of silence (Book); Writer in America (Book) PDF IMAGES
96-100	January 1952 New books/Review Confident and unconfident ages By Charles Poore SEE ALSO: A short walk from the station (Book); Chosen country (Book); Cross-channel attack (Book); Forster, E.M. (Edward Morgan); Morison, Elting E.; Harrison, George; Dos Passos, John; Fischer, John; Barry, Joseph Amber; Left bank, right bank (Book); Biancolli, Louis; Master plan U.S.A. (Book); McGinley, Phyllis; Portrait of the artist as an American (Book); Cline, Ray S.; Rodman, Selden; The analytical concert guide (Book); The confident years (Book); Two cheers for democracy (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; Washington command post: the operations division (Book); We fished all night (Book); Motley, Willard PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 17-24	November 1944 The new books/Review The new books By John Chamberlain SEE ALSO: Meyer, Agnes Elizabeth Ernst; American literature; Journey through chaos: America's home front (Book); No mean city (Book); Strunsky, Simeon; The world of Washington Irving (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 5-8	January 1942 The new books/Review The new books By John Chamberlain SEE ALSO: Davis, Forrest; Journey for Margaret (Book); Literature and society; Opinions of Oliver Allston (Book); The Atlantic system (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck; White, William L. PDF IMAGES
PAGE MISSING 7-11	September 1940 The new books/Review The new books By John Chamberlain SEE ALSO: Democracy and the third term (Book); Rodell, Fred; Corbin, John; New England: Indian summer, 1865-1915 (Book); Two frontiers of freedom (Book); Brooks, Van Wyck PDF IMAGES

OCTOBER 2008

BLEAK HOUSES
Digging Through the Ruins of the Mortgage Crisis
By Paul Reyes

NEWS FROM NOWHERE
Iceland's Polite Dystopia
By Rebecca Solnit

MICROSTORIES
Fiction by John Edgar Wideman

Also: Bernard Avishai on Obama's Jews