Mary McCarthy Archives

Mary McCarthy

Behind the Fig Leaf

by Elaine Blair,

Mary McCarthy’s sexual revolution

Mary McCarthy’s “Artists in Uniform” (1953)

by Jeff Sharlet,

“He actually said these awful things. But the story is McCarthy’s arrangement of the colonel’s utterance of the words and of her changing perception of their meaning.”

The law

by Robert M. Kaus,

The plaintiff's hour

Poets, presidents, and preceptors

by Benjamin DeMott,

Manner and matter in non-fiction

by Elizabeth Hardwick,

Ladies and gentlemen . . .

by Paul Murphy Pickrel,

Forecast

by Katherine Gauss Jackson,

Art, taxes, and the myth of the rich

by Paul Murphy Pickrel,

Mister Rodriguez of Lisbon

by Mary McCarthy,

Settling the colonel’s hash

by Mary McCarthy,

Remainder shelf

by Bernard Augustine De Voto,