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Books in Review
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Academic Freedom and Pluralism (Review) Paul Pickrel
Academic Freedom, by Russell Kirk
- Academic Freedom by Russell Kirk

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The Double Vision of Society (Review) Paul Pickrel
The Embezzler, by Louis Auchincloss
- The Embezzler by Louis Auchincloss

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Edmund Wilson, Lionel Trilling, Philip Rahv (3 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Bit Between My Teeth, by Edmund Wilson
- The Bit Between My Teeth by Edmund Wilson
- The Myth and the Powerhouse by Philip Rahv
- Beyond Culture by Lionel Trilling

The New Books
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From Various Roots (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Some Recent Novels from Abroad
- The Woman from Sarajevo by Ivo Andric
- The Wailing Mountain by Mihailo Lalic
- A Sitter for a Satyr by Jerzy Andrzejewski
- The Mechanical Pianos by Henri-Francois Rey
- An Ancient Enemy by Pierre Moinot
- The Giant Dwarfs by Gisela Elsner
- The Garden of the Finzi-Continis by Giorgio Bassani
- A Green Tree in Gedde by Alan Sharp

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Joycean Correspondences (2 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The James Joyce Murder Mystery, by Amanda Cross
- The James Joyce Murder Mystery by Amanda Cross
- Letters of James Joyce by Stuart Gilbert and James Joyce

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Jude the Obscure and the Fall of Phaethon (2 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Jude the Obscure, by Thomas Hardy
- Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
- Sex and Fantasy by Robert May

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Miss Jewett to Miss McCarthy (Review) Paul Pickrel
Pioneers and Caretakers, by Louis Auchincloss
- Pioneers and Caretakers by Louis Auchincloss

The Moving Stairs (1948)Paul Pickrel
3 Reviews, 2 Readable

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The New Bombs (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
New Nations and Old Problems
- The First New Nation by Seymour Martin Lipset
- American Education: A National Failure by Hyman G. Rickover
- Challenge to Affluence by Gunnar Myrdal
- The Age of Napoleon by J. Christopher Herold
- Montenegro by Milovan Djilas
- The Domesticated Americans by Russell Lynes
- Making Do by Paul Goodman
- The Violent World of Hugh Greene by Colin Wilson
- Confusions by Jack B. Ludwig
- Idiots First by Bernard Malamud
- A Man and Two Women by Doris Lessing

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Success Stories
- Melbourne by Lord David Cecil
- The Remarkable Mr. Jerome by Anita Leslie
- The Man Who Lives in Paradise by A.C. Gilbert and Marshall McClintock
- My Life With the Microbes by Selman A. Waksman
- The Anatomy of a Crime by Joseph F. Dinneen
- The Memoirs of Aga Khan by Aga Khan
- Adventure in Freedom by Oscar Handlin
- In the Name of Sanity by Lewis Mumford
- The Dancing Bear: Berlin de Profundis by Frances Faviell

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Art, Taxes, and the Myth of the Rich
- Cash McCall by Cameron Hawley
- Architecture, Ambition and Americans by Wayne Andrews
- John Singer Sargent by Charles Merrill Mount
- American Painting: From the Armory Show to the Depression by Milton W. Brown
- Ten North Frederick by John O'Hara
- A Charmed Life by Mary McCarthy
- Robert Benchley by Nathaniel Benchley
- Andersonville by MacKinlay Kantor
- The Spider's House by Paul Bowles

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The New Books (5 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Particle and Pattern
- Accent on Form by Lancelot Law Whyte
- A Program for Conservatives by Russell Kirk
- A Dangerous Freedom by Bradford Smith
- People of Plenty by David M. Potter
- The Natural House by Frank Lloyd Wright


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The New Books (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Question of Style
- The Open Mind by J. Robert Oppenheimer
- The Year of Decisions by Harry S. Truman
- The Deer Park by Norman Mailer
- Inside Africa by John Gunther
- The Pillar of Salt by Albert Memmi
- The Myth of Sisyphus, and Other Essays by Albert Camus
- The Dark Eye in Africa by Laurens van der Post
- The Fears Men Live By by Selma Hirsh
- How Far the Promised Land? by Walter Francis White
- The Scrolls from the Dead Sea by Edmund Wilson
- The Dead Sea Scrolls by Millar Burrows

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The New Books (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The 'Thirties and the 'Fifties
- Marjorie Morningstar by Herman Wouk
- The Fabulous Train by Frederic Wakeman
- On the Waterfront by Budd Schulberg
- Time for Living by George Soule
- John Goffe's Legacy by George Woodbury
- Epstein: An Autobiography by Jacob Epstein
- Hogarth's Progress by Peter Quennell
- Swift and Carroll: A Psychoanalytic Study of Two Lives by Phyllis Greenacre
- Portrait of Barrie by Cynthia Asquith
- The Moth and the Star by Aileen Pippett
- Heritage by Anthony West

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The New Books (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Sanity and Society...
- The Sane Society by Erich Fromm
- Culture and Mental Disorders by Joseph W. Eaton and Robert J. Weil
- The Revelations of Dr. Modesto by Alan Harrington
- Band of Angels by Robert Penn Warren
- Bell's Landing by Gerald Warner Brace
- The Tree of Man by Patrick White
- Nine Men by Fred Rodell
- The Supreme Court in the American System of Government by Robert H. Jackson
- The Sixth of June by Lionel Shapiro
- Officers and Gentlemen by Evelyn Waugh
- The Navigator by Jules Roy

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The New Books (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Political Rhetoric, the Decision-Makers, and Some Innocents Abroad
- Affairs of State: The Eisenhower Years by Richard H. Rovere
- The Revolt of the Moderates by Samuel Lubell
- The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills
- The Quiet American by Graham Greene
- Some Inner Fury by Kamala Markandaya
- A Perfect Woman by L.P. Hartley
- Lucy Crown by Irwin Shaw
- Toscanini: An Intimate Portrait by Samuel Chotzinoff
- Helen Keller: Sketch for a Portrait by Van Wyck Brooks
- Living Like a Lord by John Godley, Lord Kilbracken
- Two Worlds: An Edinburgh Jewish Childhood by David Daiches

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Ambiguities of Success
- Trial Balance: The Education of an American by Alan Valentine
- My Forty Years with Ford by Charles E. Sorensen and Samuel T. Williamson
- Harlan Fiske Stone: Pillar of the Law by Alpheus Thomas Mason
- Much Ado About Me by Fred Allen
- The Happy Life of a Doctor by Roger Irving Lee
- Over My Shoulder by Clarence B. Randall
- The Art of Success by The Editors of Fortune
- Work and Its Discontents by Daniel Bell
- Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
- The New World by Winston S. Churchill

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Politicians, Soldiers, and Hittites
- The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor
- Island in the Sun by Alec Waugh
- A Secret Understanding by Merle Miller
- Boon Island by Kenneth Lewis Roberts
- Keep the Aspidistra Flying by George Orwell
- The Dreyfus Case: A Reassessment by Guy Chapman
- Bugles and a Tiger by John Masters
- The Case for Modern Man by Charles Frankel

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The New Books (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Popular Government, the Fully Informed Citizen, and People Like Us
- Utopia, 1976 by Morris L. Ernst
- The Restoration of Learning by Arthur E. Bestor
- Retreat From Learning by Joan Dunn
- The Heresy of Democracy by Lord Eustace Percy
- Democracy in World Politics by Lester B. Pearson
- On the Aesthetic Education of Man by Friedrich Schiller
- Homo Ludens by Johan Huizinga
- Great Books of the Western World by Robert M. Hutchins and Mortimer J. Adler
- Education: The Lost Dimension by William Roy Niblett
- The Foreseeable Future by George P. Thomson
- The Imperial Intellect by A. Dwight Culler

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Stream and the Self
- New Lives for Old by Margaret Mead
- Goodbye to Uncle Tom by J.C. Furnas
- A Wreath for Udomo by Peter Abrahams
- A Single Pebble by John Hersey
- A Dance in the Sun by Dan Jacobson
- Self: Explorations in Personal Growth by Clark E. Moustakas and Sita Ram Jayaswal
- Amelie in Love by Henri Troyat
- The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne by Brian Moore
- Ring Lardner by Donald Elder
- Minority Report by H.L. Mencken

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Sense of Identity and the Sense of Society
- Marianne Thornton: A Domestic Biography, 1797-1887 by E.M. Forster
- Neilson of Smith by Margaret Farrand Thorp
- A Cornish Waif's Story by Emma Smith
- The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Girl He Left Behind by Marion Hargrove
- A Walk On the Wild Side by Nelson Algren
- The Ninth Wave by Eugene Burdick
- Music in American Life by Jacques Barzun
- The Ford Foundation: The Men and the Millions by Dwight Macdonald

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Unconventional Memoirs...
- Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene O'Neill
- Surprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis
- Behind the Mountains by Oliver La Farge
- Mr. Hamish Gleave by Richard Llewellyn
- All Honorable Men by David Karp
- That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
- The Revolt of Gunner Asch by Hans Hellmut Kirst
- Ayorama by Raymond de Coccola and Paul King
- The Mysterious North by Pierre Berton

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Sir Winston Early and Late...
- Savrola: A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania by Winston Churchill
- The Birth of Britain by Winston S. Churchill
- Cousins and Strangers by S. Gorley Putt
- Good Behavior by Harold Nicolson
- Imperial Woman by Pearl S. Buck
- The Abode of Love by Aubrey Menen
- Every Other Bed by Mike Gorman
- The Dispossessed by Geoffrey A. Wagner
- This Is Our World by Louis Fischer
The Harpers Monthly, May 1956, pp. 80-89


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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
All About People
- Bernard Shaw: His Life, Work, and Friends by St. John G. Ervine
- The Outsider by Colin Wilson
- Jawaharlal Nehru: A Biography by Frank R. Moraes
- The Happy Warrior by Emily Smith Warner and Hawthorne Daniel
- A Catholic Runs for President by Edmund A. Moore
- The Heart Has Its Reasons by Wallis W. Windsor
- The Nun's Story by Kathryn C. Hulme
- The Executive Life by The Editors of Fortune
- The Business of Crime by Robert Rice
- Gift of Time by Andrew Varna

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
We Are on a Journey...
- Segregation: The Inner Conflict in the South by Robert Penn Warren
- Azalai by John Skolle
- In Search of Adam by Herbert Wendt
- Contemporary Capitalism by John Strachey
- Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox, 1882-1940 by James MacGregor Burns
- The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima
- A Certain Smile by Francoise Sagan
- The Fair Game by Constantine FitzGibbon
- Beowulf by Bryher
- A Family Party by John O'Hara

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
A Book about Words and Some Words about Books
- A Dictionary of American-English Usage by Margaret Nicholson
- Say, Darling by Richard Pike Bissell
- Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Seraglio by James Merrill
- The Strange Enchantment by Geoffrey Cotterell
- The Wapshot Chronicle by John Cheever
- To Make a World by Theodore Morrison
- The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933 by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
- The Vatican Story by Bernard Wall

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Midsummer Biography and Fiction
- Preacher with a Plow by Samuel B. Coles
- Rhodes of Africa by Felix Gross
- A Prophet in His Own Country by Kenneth S. Davis
- The Love-Seekers by Leonora Hornblow
- Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury
- The Nine Mile Circle by Patricia Hill
- The Red and the White by Henri Troyat
- The Beggar in the Harem by Leonid V. Solovyev
- Personal and Oriental by Austin Coates
- Tip on a Dead Jockey, and Other Stories by Irwin Shaw

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Bernard Baruch, Texas, and Some Lesser Subjects
- Baruch: My Own Story by Bernard Baruch
- Mr. Baruch by Margaret L. Coit
- A Death in the Family by James Agee
- Last Tales by Isak Dinesen
- The Dangerous Games by Tereska Torres
- Pemberton, Ltd. by Anthony Glyn
- Make My Bed by Nathaniel Burt
- Reluctant Empire by George Fuermann
- The Road to Tyburn by Christopher Hibbert
- The Naked God by Howard Fast

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Hour After Westerly, and Other Stories, by Robert M. Coates
- The Hour After Westerly, and Other Stories by Robert M. Coates
- The Day the Money Stopped by Brendan Gill
- The Guardians by J.I.M. Stewart
- Tower in the West by Frank C. Norris
- Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis
- The Papers of Christian Gauss by Katherine Gauss Jackson, Hiram Haydn, and Christian Frederick Gauss, ...
- The Last Parallel by Martin Russ
- Give Us This Day by Sidney Stewart
- The Great Chain of Life by Joseph Wood Krutch
- The Darwin Reader by Marston Bates, Philip S. Humphrey, and Charles Darwin, ...


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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
We Look Before and After
- The Next Hundred Years by Harrison Brown, James Bonner, and John Weir
- The Coming Caesars by Amaury de Riencourt
- The Lunatic Fringe by Gerald W. Johnson
- The Kingdom of This World by Alejo Carpentier
- The Awakened by Zoe Oldenbourg
- They Hanged My Saintly Billy by Robert Graves
- Life at Happy Knoll by John P. Marquand
- The Durable Fire by Howard Swiggett
- In the Time of Greenbloom by Gabriel Fielding

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The New Books (13 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Ladies and Gentlemen...
- Gypsy: A Memoir by Gypsy Rose Lee
- Memories of a Catholic Girlhood by Mary McCarthy
- Mrs. Gladstone by Georgina Battiscombe
- The Turn of the Tide: A History of the War Years by Arthur Bryant
- Potter on America by Stephen Potter
- The Club by Andrew Graham
- The Sandcastle by Iris Murdoch
- The Nature of Passion by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- The Town by William Faulkner
- All Rome Trembled by Melton S. Davis
- Tides of Crisis by Adolf A. Berle, Jr.
- The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law by Glanville L. Williams
- Reflections on Hanging by Arthur Koestler

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Where Responsibility Begins
- Nothing But the Night by James Yaffe
- The Last Angry Man by Gerald Green
- A Distant Drum by Charles Bracelen Flood
- A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
- The Loving Eye by William Sansom
- The Hell Bent Kid by Charles O. Locke
- The Fall by Albert Camus
- Gertrude Stein: Her Life and Work by Elizabeth Sprigge
- Old Friends by Clive Bell

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Search for Community
- Journey of an American by Albion Ross
- Kingdom of the Saints by Ray B. West, Jr.
- The Short Reign of Pippin IV by John Steinbeck
- The Yoke and the Arrows by Herbert L. Matthews
- Common Sense and the Fifth Amendment by Sidney Hook
- Go South to Sorrow by Carl T. Rowan
- The Feast of Lupercal by Brian Moore
- Tunes of Glory by James Kennaway
The Harpers Monthly, May 1957, pp. 78-90

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Public and Private
- The Court and the Castle by Rebecca West
- Room at the Top by John Braine
- A Bit Off the Map, and Other Stories by Angus Wilson
- Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
- Those Without Shadows by Francoise Sagan
- Candles in the Sun by Emily Lutyens
- The Shakespearean Ciphers Examined by William F. Friedman and Elizebeth S. Friedman, ...
- Return to the Islands by Arthur F. Grimble

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The New Books (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Postrevolutionary Figures
- The Memoirs of a Revolutionist by Dwight Macdonald
- Look Back in Anger by John Osborne
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- Women, and Sometimes Men by Florida Scott-Maxwell
- Islam Inflamed by Jan Morris
- Come With Me to Macedonia by Leonard Drohan
- Rally Round the Flag, Boys! by Max Shulman
- Sullivan by Walter Macken
- The Weather of February by Hollis Summers
- The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh
- The King Ranch by Tom Lea

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Economic Man and the Rest of Us
- Expense Account by Joe Morgan
- The Man Who Broke Things by John Brooks
- Image of a Society by Roy Fuller
- The Price of Diamonds by Dan Jacobson
- The Hireling by L.P. Hartley
- Madison Avenue, U.S.A. by Martin Mayer
- The Guide by R.K. Narayan
- The Mackerel Plaza by Peter De Vries
- Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell
- Exile and the Kingdom by Albert Camus

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Cultured Man and Some Less Formidable Types
- The Cultured Man by Ashley Montagu
- The King Must Die by Mary Renault
- The Horn by John Clellon Holmes
- At Lady Molly's by Anthony Powell
- A Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing
- The End of the Road by John Barth
- The Summer Lovers by Hollis Alpert
- The Hours After Midnight by Joseph Arnold Hayes
- Part of a Long Story by Agnes Boulton

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Academics, Owners, Artists, and Others
- The Academic Mind by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Wagner Thielens, Jr.
- The Academic Marketplace by Theodore Caplow and Reece J. McGee
- Some of My Best Friends Are Professors by George Guion Williams
- The Proud Possessors by Aline B. Saarinen
- Mine Enemy Grows Older by Alexander King
- Agee on Film by James Agee
- Here, Of All Places! by Osbert Lancaster
- Journey to Poland and Yugoslavia, 1958 by John Kenneth Galbraith
- Brave New World Revisited by Aldous Huxley

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Not New York
- An Epitaph for Dixie by Harry S. Ashmore
- Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Traver
- Home from the Hill by William Humphrey
- Some Came Running by James Jones
- My Face for the World to See by Alfred Hayes
- First Love and Other Sorrows by Harold Brodkey
- Kilometer 95 by Herbert Russcol and Margalit Banai
- The Man on the Rock by Francis King
- The Sibyl by Par Lagerkvist


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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Novels of Middle Age and Others
- The Enemy Camp by Jerome Weidman
- The Image Makers by Bernard Dryer
- The Time of the Dragons by Alice Ekert-Rotholz
- The Passionate City by Ian Stuart Black
- The Dangerous American by A.E. Hotchner
- The Hard Blue Sky by Shirley Ann Grau
- River's End, and Other Stories by Anthony C. West
- Darwin's Century by Loren Eiseley
- The Beat Generation and the Angry Young Men by Gene Feldman and Max Gartenberg
- Memoirs of a Public Baby by Philip O'Connor

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Rich Man, Poor Man...
- The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith
- The Long March by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Mountain Road by T.H. White
- Two Women by Alberto Moravia
- Chiara by Gene D'Olive
- Journey to Java by Harold G. Nicolson
- Seidman and Son by Elick Moll
- A New England Girlhood by Nancy Hale
- Parktilden Village by George P. Elliott

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The New Books (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
A Question of Identity
- I Like It Here by Kingsley Amis
- The Return of Ansel Gibbs by Frederick Buechner
- The Freest Man on Earth by James Whitfield Ellison
- They Came to Cordura by Glendon F. Swarthout
- The Conscience of the Rich by C.P. Snow
- Maggie-Now by Betty Smith
- The Joy Wagon by Arthur T. Hadley
- My Brother's Keeper by Stanislaus Joyce
- Less Than Kin by William Clark
- People of the Reeds by Gavin Maxwell
- The Capitalist Manifesto by Louis O. Kelso and Mortimer J. Adler

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Numbers and Enigmas
- The Undiscovered Self by C.G. Jung
- Inside Russia Today by John Gunther
- A Very Far Country by E.M. Almedingen
- The Heart of India by Alexander Campbell
- Yonder One World by Frank R. Moraes
- Seasons of Jupiter by Anand Lall
- Declaration by Tom Maschler
- The Contenders by John Wain
- Happy as Larry by Thomas Hinde
- Dickens at Work by John Everett Butt and Kathleen Tillotson
The Harpers Monthly, May 1958, pp. 80-90

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The City and Some Wicked Citizens
- The Exploding Metropolis
- The Bull of Minos by Leonard Cottrell
- Mistress to an Age by J. Christopher Herold
- The Long Dream by Richard Wright
- Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
- Someone Will Die Tonight in the Caribbean by Rene Puissesseau
- The Bell by Iris Murdoch
- The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
- The Birds by Oskar Heinroth and Katharina Heinroth

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Public, the Private, and the Real
- A World of Strangers by Nadine Gordimer
- Engaged in Writing by Stephen Spender
- Women and Thomas Harrow by John P. Marquand
- Venus in Sparta by Louis Auchincloss
- The Law by Roger Vailland
- Marlborough's Duchess by Louis Kronenberger
- American Murder Ballads and Their Stories by Olive Woolley Burt
- Once Upon a City by Grace M. Mayer
- The Puerto Ricans by Christopher Rand

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Middle Ground and Some More Exotic Regions
- The Democratic Vista by Richard Chase
- Short Stories of Russia Today by Yvonne Kapp
- The Russian Revolution by Alan Moorehead
- Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918 by Z.A.B. Zeman
- Let No Man Write My Epitaph by Willard Motley
- The Palace Guard by Donald Braider
- The Bystander by Albert J. Guerard
- The Southern Heritage by James McBride Dabbs

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Gifts: Free and Cultivated
- The Rise of the Meritocracy by Michael Dunlop Young
- Memo to a College Trustee by Beardsley Ruml and Donald H. Morrison
- The Image of America by Raymond-Leopold Bruckberger
- The American Economy by Massimo Salvadori
- Codfish, Cats, and Civilization by Gary Webster
- For 2 Cents Plain by Harry Golden
- My Philosophical Development by Bertrand Russell
- Blaise Pascal by Ernest Mortimer

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
How We Look to Others---And Who Makes the Image
- As Others See Us by Franz M. Joseph
- Fiction of the Fifties by Herbert Gold
- Men at the Top by Osborn Elliott
- The Image Merchants by Irwin Ross
- The Fabulous Showman by Irving Wallace
- The Living Theatre by Elmer L. Rice
- A Life in the Theatre by Tyrone Guthrie
- A Midwest Story by Augusta Walker

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
A Medley, with Some Familiar Themes
- The Captive and the Free by Joyce Cary
- The Pistol by James Jones
- The Poorhouse Fair by John Updike
- Mrs. Bridge by Evan S. Connell, Jr.
- Young Love by Johannes Allen
- The Scientists by Eleazar Lipsky
- The Search by C.P. Snow
- W. Somerset Maugham by Karl G. Pfeiffer
- Suburbia: Its People and Their Politics by Robert Coldwell Wood
- The Waist-High Culture by Thomas Griffith

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Men Making Money
- The Hot Half Hour by Robert L. Foreman
- The Detroiters by Harold Livingston
- The Admen by Shepherd Mead
- A Really Sincere Guy by Robert Van Riper
- Pax by Middleton Kiefer
- Showcase by Martin Dibner
- The Ruling Passion by George de Mare
- A Piece of the Action by Herb Gardner
- From the Terrace by John O'Hara

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Elastic Novel
- Dragoman Pass by Eric Williams
- Tempo di Roma by Alexis Curvers
- The Lion by Joseph Kessel
- The Zulu and the Zeide by Dan Jacobson
- Five Families by Oscar Lewis
- Blow Up a Storm by Garson Kanin
- Lion at My Heart by Harry Mark Petrakis
- The Cool World by Warren Miller
- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by Simone de Beauvoir
- The Light Infantry Ball by Hamilton Basso

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Images of Society
- The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills
- The House of Intellect by Jacques Barzun
- The John Wood Case by Ruth Suckow
- The Delectable Mountains, and Other Narratives by Berton Roueche
- The Rape of the Fair Country by Alexander Cordell
- The Harmless People by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
- Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth
- Who Live in Shadow by John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Mostly about the Young
- Harry Vernon at Prep by Franc Smith
- The Angers of Spring by Joseph Whitehill
- Summer's Lease by Constance Pendergast
- Felding Castle by Edith de Born
- The Young Assassins by Juan Goytisolo
- A Room in Moscow by Sally Belfrage
- The Big Red Schoolhouse by Fred M. Hechinger
- An Anthropologist at Work by Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict
- The Gold of Troy by Robert Payne
- Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Picasso, the Smith Family, Rats, and other Explorers
- Picasso: His Life and Times by Roland Penrose
- Picasso at Vallauris by Pablo Picasso
- The Transatlantic Smiths by Robert Allerton Parker
- Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
- I Remember by Boris Pasternak
- The Evolution of a Conservative by William Henry Chamberlin
- The Warriors by J. Glenn Gray
- Cadwallader by Russell Lynes
The Harpers Monthly, May 1959, pp. 84-90

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Faulkner, Nabokov, Hersey, Shirley Jackson, and Some Newcomers
- The Mansion by William Faulkner
- The Real Life of Sebastian Knight by Vladimir Nabokov
- Invitation to a Beheading by Vladimir Nabokov
- The War Lover by John Hersey
- Green Water, Green Sky by Mavis Gallant
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Half Moon Haven by Martin Russ
- Hidden America by Roland Wells Robbins and Evan Jones
- The Lost Cities of Africa by Basil Davidson
- The New Shape of American Religion by Martin E. Marty

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Occasionally Endotic
- Meeting with Japan by Fosco Maraini
- Segaki by David Stacton
- Yesterday by Maria Dermout
- I Shall Not Hear the Nightingale by Khushwant Singh
- Moscow Gatecrash by John R.G. Kilbracken
- Don Chato by Anne Sinclair Mehdevi
- The Rack by A.E. Ellis
- Warrior's Rest by Christiane Rochefort
- Men Die by Harold Louis Humes
- The Finished Man by George Garrett


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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Varieties of Commitment
- Name and Address: An Autobiography by T.S. Matthews
- Lament for a Generation by Ralph de Toledano
- The Edge of Day by Laurie Lee
- Streetwalker by Anonymous
- The Dinner Party by Claude Mauriac
- Aimez-Vous Brahms? by Francoise Sagan
- The Violent Bear It Away by Flannery O'Connor
- From the Hand of the Hunter by John Braine
- The Forest and the Sea by Marston Bates

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The New Books (6 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Wright Morris, Thomas Wolfe, Four Novels
- Ceremony in Lone Tree by Wright Morris
- A House Full of Women by Philip James McFarland
- The Paratrooper of Mechanic Avenue by Lester Goran
- A Silence of Desire by Kamala Markandaya
- The Ballad of Peckham Rye by Muriel Spark
- The Firmament of Time by Loren Eiseley

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Points of Departure and of No Return
- The Lincoln Lords by Cameron Hawley
- Wilder Stone by John Leggett
- Two Weeks in Another Town by Irwin Shaw
- Where the Boys Are by Glendon Swarthout
- A Summer World by Richard Dougherty
- Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse
- The House in Vienna by Edith de Born
- No Room in the Ark by Alan Moorehead
- The Ten Pains of Death by Gavin Maxwell

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The New Books (16 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Of Biography and Biographers
- John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison
- From the Morgenthau Diaries by John Morton Blum and Hans J. Morgenthau
- Edison: A Biography by Matthew Josephson
- James Joyce by Richard Ellmann
- The Third Rose: Gertrude Stein and Her World by John Malcolm Brinnin
- John Jay Chapman: An American Mind by Richard B. Hovey
- Prodigal Puritan by Vivian C. Hopkins
- The Papers of Benjamin Franklin by Leonard W. Labaree, William B. Willcox, and Benjamin Franklin, ...
- Nobel by Nicholas Halasz
- You Are All Alone by Jozsef Kovago
- Winslow Homer by Lloyd Goodrich
- Albert P. Ryder by Lloyd Goodrich
- Thomas Eakins by Fairfield Porter
- Stuart Davis by E.C. Goossen
- Willem de Kooning by Thomas B. Hess
- Jackson Pollock by Frank O'Hara

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
From Anthony Comstock to Young Academics
- Comstockery in America by Robert W. Haney
- The Chapman Report by Irving Wallace
- Set This House On Fire by William Styron
- The Stars in Their Courses by Harry Brown
- The Good Years by Walter Lord
- America in the Modern World by D.W. Brogan
- The Absence of a Cello by Ira Wallach
- A Question of Innocence by Donald Winks
- Weekend in Dinlock by Clancy Sigal
- The New Professors by Robert O. Bowen

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
People with Power
- The Affair by C.P. Snow
- Hail to the Chief by James Reichley
- Venetian Red by P.M. Pasinetti
- Power and Persuasion by John Franklin Carter
- Taken at the Flood by John Gunther
- The Big Ward by Jacoba Van Velde
- On a Lonesome Porch by Ovid Williams Pierce
- The Kissing Fish by Monique Lange
- The Seeker by Allen Wheelis
- Through Streets Broad and Narrow by Gabriel Fielding

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
A Sense of Difference
- The Others by Ann Aikman
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- The Magic Christian by Terry Southern
- Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl
- Ourselves to Know by John O'Hara
- Rosemarie by Erich Kuby
- The Law and the Profits by C. Northcote Parkinson
- Is There an American in the House? by David Cort
- Monsignor Ronald Knox by Evelyn Waugh

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Private Life among the Foreigners, Americans, and Criminals
- The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa
- The Man of Blood by Jose Luis de Vilallonga
- The Disinherited by Michel del Castillo
- Eating People Is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury
- Evidence of Love by Dan Jacobson
- An American Romance by Hans Koningsberger
- The Keener Love by Sally Thompson
- In the Absence of Magic by Ernst Pawel
- A Garden of Cucumbers by Poyntz Tyler
- The End of Ideology by Daniel Bell
The Harpers Monthly, May 1960, pp. 93-100

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The Problems of the Young and Some Recent Novels
- Growing Up Absurd by Paul Goodman
- The Process of Education by Jerome S. Bruner
- Life: Its Dimensions and Its Bounds by Robert M. MacIver
- Goodbye to a River by John Graves
- The Necklace of Kali by Robert Towers
- The Lilacs Overgrow by Tai-yi Lin
- The Nephew by James Purdy
- Know Nothing by Mary Lee Settle

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Rich: They Are Nearly Always with Us
- The House of Five Talents by Louis Auchincloss
- Timothy Dexter Revisited by John P. Marquand
- The Trial Begins by Abram Tertz
- The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
- The Luck of Ginger Coffey by Brian Moore
- A Sketch of My Life by Thomas Mann
- Past and Present by Monika Mann
- Letters to Paul Amann, 1915-1952 by Thomas Mann and Herbert Wegener

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Summer Fiction: Steinbeck, Silone, and Some Women on the Loose
- The Winter of Our Discontent by John Steinbeck
- The Fox and the Camellias by Ignazio Silone
- Jimmy Riddle by Ian Brook
- The Forger by Jay Williams
- Breakdown by John Bratby
- Clem Anderson by R.V. Cassill
- The Edge of Sadness by Edwin O'Connor
- A Shooting Star by Wallace Stegner
- The House on Coliseum Street by Shirley Ann Grau

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The New Books (11 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Fiction, Non-fiction, and Pseudo-fiction
- The Blue of Capricorn by Eugene Burdick
- Adrift in Soho by Colin Wilson
- The Old Men at the Zoo by Angus Wilson
- The Whisperers by Robert Nicolson
- A Passion in Rome by Morley Callaghan
- Dangerfield by Barnaby Conrad
- False Entry by Hortense Calisher
- A New Life by Bernard Malamud
- Night Song by John Alfred Williams
- Scarred by Bruce Lowery
- Love in Question by Rosalie Packard

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Image, by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Image by Daniel J. Boorstin
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- Going Away by Clancy Sigal
- David Knudsen by George P. Elliott
- The Blood of the Lamb by Peter De Vries
- Down There on a Visit by Christopher Isherwood
- The Tangled Bank by Stanley Edgar Hyman
- Darwin and the Naked Lady by Alex Comfort
- The Other America by Michael Harrington



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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Innocents in the Big City
- Youngblood Hawke by Herman Wouk
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- The Bible Salesman by Alma Stone
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Chemmeen by Thakazhi S. Pillai
- Key to the Door by Alan Sillitoe
- An Unofficial Rose by Iris Murdoch
- A Sad Heart at the Supermarket by Randall Jarrell
- Speaking the Language Like a Native by Aubrey Menen

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The New Books (5 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Sun and the City
- The Intellectual Versus the City by Morton Gabriel White and Lucia White
- Man and the Sun by Jacquetta H. Hawkes
- The Collectors: Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone by Barbara Pollack
- One Boy's Boston, 1887-1901 by Samuel Eliot Morison
- Chekhov: A Biography by Ernest J. Simmons

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Breakup of the Tribe
- Before My Time by Niccolo Tucci
- Diamond by Brian Blanville
- The Sound of Bow Bells by Jerome Weidman
- Mister Margolies by James Yaffe
- Two Brothers by Vasco Pratolini
- Now Bless Thyself by Elizabeth Sewell
- In-Laws and Outlaws by C. Northcote Parkinson
- The Lonely African by Colin Turnbull
- The Blue Nile by Alan Moorehead
- Tragedy in Dedham by Francis Russell

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The New Books (10 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Recent Novels
- A Favourite of the Gods by Sybille Bedford
- The Birthday King by Gabriel Fielding
- A Girl in Winter by Philip Larkin
- The Centaur by John Updike
- The Asphalt Campus by Geoffrey Wagner
- Sissie by John Alfred Williams
- Where's Annie? by Eileen Bassing
- Of Streets and Stars by Alan Marcus
- The Lonely Voice by Frank O'Connor
- The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer


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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Historians and Other Confused People
- Freedom in the Western World by Herbert J. Muller
- The Precarious Balance by Ludwig Dehio
- Under the Mountain Wall by Peter Matthiessen
- Black Cargoes by Daniel P. Mannix and Malcolm Cowley
- Africa for Beginners by Melvin J. Lasky
- Kings, Courts and Monarchy by Harold G. Nicolson
- The Fate of the Edsel, and Other Business Adventures by John Brooks
- The Tyranny of Testing by Banesh Hoffmann
- The Community of Scholars by Paul Goodman

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The New Books (12 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Mostly about Women
- Ascent of Woman by Elisabeth Mann Borgese
- The Soviet Family by David Mace and Vera Mace
- Roman Women: Their History and Habits by J.P.V.D. Balsdon
- Mrs. G.B.S. by Janet Dunbar
- Private Shaw and Public Shaw by Stanley Weintraub
- Beatrice Webb's American Diary, 1898 by David A. Shannon and Beatrice Webb
- Textures of Life by Hortense Calisher
- The Unicorn by Iris Murdoch
- Possession by Kamala Markandaya
- Miss Clare Remembers by Miss Read
- Salt by Herbert Gold
- What's Become of Waring? by Anthony Powell

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The New Books (5 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Know They're Monsters: Some Recent Books on Art
- Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot and Carlton Lake
- Lautrec by Lautrec by Philippe Huisman and M G. Dortu
- My Friend Degas by Daniel Halevy
- The Unknown Degas and Renoir by Denis Rouart
- Paintings of D.H.Lawrence by Mervyn Levy and D.H.Lawrence

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The New Books (14 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
A Backward Glance: Art Books, Books on Art, and Picture Books
- The Philosophy of Art History by Arnold Hauser
- Art and Psychoanalysis by William Phillips
- Art History: An Anthology of Modern Criticism by Wylie Sypher
- Nigerian Images by William Fagg and Herbert List
- My Life in Photography by Edward Steichen
- Self-Portraits by Manuel Gasser
- Florine Stettheimer by Parker Tyler
- Patrons and Painters by Francis Haskell
- Great Drawings of the Masters by J.E. Schuler
- The Drawings of Edwin Dickinson by Edwin Walter Dickinson
- Life for Dead Spaces by Charles Goodman and Wolf von Eckardt
- Great Private Collections by Douglas Cooper
- Newport: Pleasures and Palaces by Nancy Sirkis
- A Vision of Paris by Eugene Atget and Arthur D. Trottenberg

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Gods: Their Exits and their Entrances
- Julian by Gore Vidal
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- The Tomorrow-Tamer, and Other Stories by Margaret Laurence
- The Stone Angel by Margaret Laurence
- The Radical Tradition by R.H. Tawney and Rita Hinden
- Insight and Responsibility by Erik H. Erikson
- Around About America by Erskine Caldwell
- Double Vision by John Knowles
- An America That Was by Albert Britt

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The New Books (9 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Interest, Human and Otherwise
- When the Cheering Stopped by Gene Smith
- The Day of the Lion by Roy MacGregor-Hastie
- Burton by Byron Farwell
- A Fine Madness by Elliott Baker
- Jubb by Keith Waterhouse
- Because I Was Flesh by Edward Dahlberg
- A Frieze of Girls by Allan Seager
- The Martyred by Richard E. Kim
- The Wasted Americans by Edgar May

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The New Books (8 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Vision and Reality: Shakespeare to Calvin Coolidge
- The Great Shakespeare Jubilee by Christian Deelman
- How Shakespeare Spent the Day by Ivor J.C. Brown
- Shakespeare's Politics by Allan Bloom and Harry V. Jaffa
- The Shakespearean Imagination by Norman Holland
- Art and Anarchy by Edgar Wind
- Both Sides of the Ocean by Viktor Nekrasov
- The Spire by William G. Golding
- My People Is the Enemy by William Stringfellow
The Harpers Monthly, May 1964, pp. 113-119

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The New Books (6 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Meaning of the Twentieth Century, by Kenneth E. Boulding
- The Meaning of the Twentieth Century by Kenneth E. Boulding
- The Scientific Age by Lloyd V. Berkner
- The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
- Corridors of Power by C.P. Snow
- The Italian Girl by Iris Murdoch
- Herzog by Saul Bellow

Books in Review
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The Pleasures of Maturity (Review) Paul Pickrel
An End to Innocence, by Leslie A. Fiedler
- An End to Innocence by Leslie A. Fiedler

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The Sacred Dwelling (Review) Paul Pickrel
The Temple and the House, by FitzRoy Somerset Raglan
- The Temple and the House by FitzRoy Somerset Raglan

The New Books
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Sad, Sinister, and Sane (5 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Some New Novels
- Gentlemen in Their Season by Gabriel Fielding
- Quondam by David Pryce-Jones
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- Despair by Vladimir Nabokov
- A Country of Strangers by Conrad Richter

The New Books
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Sex: The Amateurs and the Virtuosi (5 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
The Sex Kick, by Tristram Potter Coffin
- The Sex Kick by Tristram Potter Coffin
- What You Should Know About Human Sexual Response by Julius Fast
- One in Twenty by Bryan Magee
- The Boys of Boise by John Gerassi
- The Many Faces of Sex by Theodor Reik

The New Books
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A Stegner, a MacLennan, and a Sontag (3 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
All the Little Live Things, by Wallace Stegner
- All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner
- Return of the Sphinx by Hugh MacLennan
- Death Kit by Susan Sontag

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Thing of Darkness (Review) Paul Pickrel
An American Dream, by Norman Mailer
- An American Dream by Norman Mailer

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Two Novelists: Outsider and Insider (2 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
Dreiser, by W.A. Swanberg
- Dreiser by W.A. Swanberg
- C.P. Snow: A Biographical and Critical Study by Jerome Thale and C.P. Snow

The New Books
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Using the Mother Tongue (4 Reviews) Paul Pickrel
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage, by Henry W. Fowler
- A Dictionary of Modern English Usage by Henry W. Fowler
- The Careful Writer by Theodore M. Bernstein
- Freedom and Discipline in English
- Fractured English by Norton Mockridge

Books in Review
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The Voice Beyond Ideology (Review) Paul Pickrel
The Opposing Self, by Lionel Trilling
- The Opposing Self by Lionel Trilling
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