Books
Franz Kafka: A Revaluation
– Partisan Review 11, no. 4 (1944).Nightmare and Flight (Review)
– Partisan Review, 12/2 (Spring 1945): 259-60.A review of Denis de Rougemont, The Devil’s Share.
The Too Ambitious Reporter (Review)
– Commentary 2 (January 1946): 94-95.Review of The Yogi and the Commissar, and Twilight Bar, by Arthur Koestler.
Proof Positive
– Nation, 5 January 1946, p. 22.A brief review of Victor Lange, Modern German Literature.
No Longer and Not Yet (Review)
– Nation, 14 September 1946, pp. 300-302.A review of Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil. Translated by J.S. Untermeyer.
The Achievement of Hermann Broch
– Kenyon Review 11/3 (Summer 1949): 476-83.Nathalie Sarraute
– New York Review of Books 2/2 (5 March 1964): 5-6.A review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits. Translated by Maria Jolas. Excerpt: When Nathalie Sarraute published her first novel, Portrait of a Man Unknown, in 1948, Sartre, in an… More
What Is Permitted to Jove
– The New Yorker, November 5, 1966.Abstract: Profile of Bertolt Brecht, world-famous German playwright & poet. His political biography is a kind of case history of the uncertain relationship bet. poetry & politics.… More
Men in Dark Times
– New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.Summary: “Dark times” is Brecht’s phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it not to suggest that those she writes about are “mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist” (none in fact… More
Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died In the Night Of the Twenty-Eighth Of September, 1973
– The New Yorker, January 20, 1975.Summary: Reflections about memories of the poet Wystan Auden, who died Sept. 28, 1973. Quotes from several of his poems; gives comments of some who wrote about him; discusses his… More
Essays
Franz Kafka: A Revaluation
– Partisan Review 11, no. 4 (1944).Nightmare and Flight (Review)
– Partisan Review, 12/2 (Spring 1945): 259-60.A review of Denis de Rougemont, The Devil’s Share.
The Too Ambitious Reporter (Review)
– Commentary 2 (January 1946): 94-95.Review of The Yogi and the Commissar, and Twilight Bar, by Arthur Koestler.
Proof Positive
– Nation, 5 January 1946, p. 22.A brief review of Victor Lange, Modern German Literature.
No Longer and Not Yet (Review)
– Nation, 14 September 1946, pp. 300-302.A review of Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil. Translated by J.S. Untermeyer.
The Achievement of Hermann Broch
– Kenyon Review 11/3 (Summer 1949): 476-83.Nathalie Sarraute
– New York Review of Books 2/2 (5 March 1964): 5-6.A review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits. Translated by Maria Jolas. Excerpt: When Nathalie Sarraute published her first novel, Portrait of a Man Unknown, in 1948, Sartre, in an… More
What Is Permitted to Jove
– The New Yorker, November 5, 1966.Abstract: Profile of Bertolt Brecht, world-famous German playwright & poet. His political biography is a kind of case history of the uncertain relationship bet. poetry & politics.… More
Men in Dark Times
– New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.Summary: “Dark times” is Brecht’s phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it not to suggest that those she writes about are “mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist” (none in fact… More
Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died In the Night Of the Twenty-Eighth Of September, 1973
– The New Yorker, January 20, 1975.Summary: Reflections about memories of the poet Wystan Auden, who died Sept. 28, 1973. Quotes from several of his poems; gives comments of some who wrote about him; discusses his… More
Commentary
Franz Kafka: A Revaluation
– Partisan Review 11, no. 4 (1944).Nightmare and Flight (Review)
– Partisan Review, 12/2 (Spring 1945): 259-60.A review of Denis de Rougemont, The Devil’s Share.
The Too Ambitious Reporter (Review)
– Commentary 2 (January 1946): 94-95.Review of The Yogi and the Commissar, and Twilight Bar, by Arthur Koestler.
Proof Positive
– Nation, 5 January 1946, p. 22.A brief review of Victor Lange, Modern German Literature.
No Longer and Not Yet (Review)
– Nation, 14 September 1946, pp. 300-302.A review of Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil. Translated by J.S. Untermeyer.
The Achievement of Hermann Broch
– Kenyon Review 11/3 (Summer 1949): 476-83.Nathalie Sarraute
– New York Review of Books 2/2 (5 March 1964): 5-6.A review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits. Translated by Maria Jolas. Excerpt: When Nathalie Sarraute published her first novel, Portrait of a Man Unknown, in 1948, Sartre, in an… More
What Is Permitted to Jove
– The New Yorker, November 5, 1966.Abstract: Profile of Bertolt Brecht, world-famous German playwright & poet. His political biography is a kind of case history of the uncertain relationship bet. poetry & politics.… More
Men in Dark Times
– New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.Summary: “Dark times” is Brecht’s phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it not to suggest that those she writes about are “mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist” (none in fact… More
Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died In the Night Of the Twenty-Eighth Of September, 1973
– The New Yorker, January 20, 1975.Summary: Reflections about memories of the poet Wystan Auden, who died Sept. 28, 1973. Quotes from several of his poems; gives comments of some who wrote about him; discusses his… More
Multimedia
Franz Kafka: A Revaluation
– Partisan Review 11, no. 4 (1944).Nightmare and Flight (Review)
– Partisan Review, 12/2 (Spring 1945): 259-60.A review of Denis de Rougemont, The Devil’s Share.
The Too Ambitious Reporter (Review)
– Commentary 2 (January 1946): 94-95.Review of The Yogi and the Commissar, and Twilight Bar, by Arthur Koestler.
Proof Positive
– Nation, 5 January 1946, p. 22.A brief review of Victor Lange, Modern German Literature.
No Longer and Not Yet (Review)
– Nation, 14 September 1946, pp. 300-302.A review of Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil. Translated by J.S. Untermeyer.
The Achievement of Hermann Broch
– Kenyon Review 11/3 (Summer 1949): 476-83.Nathalie Sarraute
– New York Review of Books 2/2 (5 March 1964): 5-6.A review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits. Translated by Maria Jolas. Excerpt: When Nathalie Sarraute published her first novel, Portrait of a Man Unknown, in 1948, Sartre, in an… More
What Is Permitted to Jove
– The New Yorker, November 5, 1966.Abstract: Profile of Bertolt Brecht, world-famous German playwright & poet. His political biography is a kind of case history of the uncertain relationship bet. poetry & politics.… More
Men in Dark Times
– New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.Summary: “Dark times” is Brecht’s phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it not to suggest that those she writes about are “mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist” (none in fact… More
Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died In the Night Of the Twenty-Eighth Of September, 1973
– The New Yorker, January 20, 1975.Summary: Reflections about memories of the poet Wystan Auden, who died Sept. 28, 1973. Quotes from several of his poems; gives comments of some who wrote about him; discusses his… More
Teaching
Franz Kafka: A Revaluation
– Partisan Review 11, no. 4 (1944).Nightmare and Flight (Review)
– Partisan Review, 12/2 (Spring 1945): 259-60.A review of Denis de Rougemont, The Devil’s Share.
The Too Ambitious Reporter (Review)
– Commentary 2 (January 1946): 94-95.Review of The Yogi and the Commissar, and Twilight Bar, by Arthur Koestler.
Proof Positive
– Nation, 5 January 1946, p. 22.A brief review of Victor Lange, Modern German Literature.
No Longer and Not Yet (Review)
– Nation, 14 September 1946, pp. 300-302.A review of Hermann Broch, The Death of Virgil. Translated by J.S. Untermeyer.
The Achievement of Hermann Broch
– Kenyon Review 11/3 (Summer 1949): 476-83.Nathalie Sarraute
– New York Review of Books 2/2 (5 March 1964): 5-6.A review of Nathalie Sarraute, The Golden Fruits. Translated by Maria Jolas. Excerpt: When Nathalie Sarraute published her first novel, Portrait of a Man Unknown, in 1948, Sartre, in an… More
What Is Permitted to Jove
– The New Yorker, November 5, 1966.Abstract: Profile of Bertolt Brecht, world-famous German playwright & poet. His political biography is a kind of case history of the uncertain relationship bet. poetry & politics.… More
Men in Dark Times
– New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1968.Summary: “Dark times” is Brecht’s phrase, and Hannah Arendt uses it not to suggest that those she writes about are “mouthpieces of the Zeitgeist” (none in fact… More
Remembering Wystan H. Auden, Who Died In the Night Of the Twenty-Eighth Of September, 1973
– The New Yorker, January 20, 1975.Summary: Reflections about memories of the poet Wystan Auden, who died Sept. 28, 1973. Quotes from several of his poems; gives comments of some who wrote about him; discusses his… More