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The Case for William Golding

The Spire

by William Golding


The Question of Major Eatherly

The Hiroshima Pilot

by William Bradford Huie


In Lord Alfred’s Camp

Bosie

by Rupert Croft-Cooke


A Black Heart

The King Incorporated

by Neal Ascherson


What is Art?

Art and Anarchy

by Edgar Wind


Prop Art

Soviet Foreign Propaganda

by Frederick C. Barghoorn


City Light

Doings and Undoings

by Norman Podhoretz


New Short Stories

Prize Stories 1964: The O. Henry Awards

edited by Richard Poirier

Come Back, Dr. Caligari

by Donald Barthelme

Three: 1964

by R.H. Robinson and E.R. Widmer and E. Pohoryles

Emblems of Conduct

by Donald Windham

Behold Goliath

by Alfred Chester


Day-Dreams

The Psychoanalysis of Fire

by Gaston Bachelard, translated by Alan C.M. Ross

The Poetics of Space

by Gaston Bachelard, translated by Maria Jolas


Chronicles of the Conquest

The Conquistadors: First-person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico

edited and translated by Patricia de Fuentes

Cortes: The Life of the Conqueror

by his Secretary Francisco Lopez de Gomara, translated and edited by Lesley Byrd Simpson

The Aztecs: The History of the Indies of New Spain

by Fray Diego Durán, translated by Doris Heyden and Fernando Horcasitas


Displaced Persons

I Was Dancing

by Edwin O'Connor

The Old Man and Me

by Elaine Dundy

Love You Good, See You Later

by Eugene Walter


On Translating Pushkin Pounding the Clavichord

An infelicitous translation of Eugene Onegin from a pitiless and irresponsible paraphrast bristles with crippled clichés and mongrel idioms, an inadequate knowledge of English and wobbly Russian.

A Scandal in Education

High School English Textbooks: A Critical Examination

by James J. Lynch and Bertrand Evans


Congreve in His Letters

William Congreve: Letters & Documents

collected and edited by John C. Hodges


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