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History and criticism

The art of Nabokov

The fat boy of England

J.D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit

A suggestion that the literary hero of theYounger Set — the Great Phony-slayer — may, justpossibly, be a bit of a phony himself. WHO is to inherit the mantle of Papa Hemingway?…

Elia Kazan’s great expectations

by Thomas Bruce Morgan,

The trouble with translation

by John Atlee Kouwenhoven,

General Macbeth

by Mary McCarthy,

The future, if any, of comedy

by James Thurber,

Or, where do we non-go from here?

“Realism” in the American theatre

by Mary McCarthy,

State of the theatre

by Henry Brandon,

A conversation with Arthur Miller

Music in the 1950’s

by Virgil Thomson,

A decade reviewed

Funeral march of the marionettes

by Harper’s Staff,