Elizabeth Hardwick | The New York Review of Books

‘Pale Horse, Pale Rider’

What a victory, what triumph, what happiness to be alive, sang the letters in a chorus. The names were signed with flourishes like the circles in air of bugle notes, and they were the names of those she had loved best.

March 21, 2020

An Abortion War Solution: The Celibacy Amendment

In the interest of equity, the anti-abortion zealots would honor their obsession by proposing a sort of balancing of the human budget: a Celibacy Before Marriage Amendment to the US Constitution. Let us see how that goes down.

June 17, 2019

On Sylvia Plath

To whom can she be compared in spirit, in content, in temperament?

May 23, 2013 issue

Barbara Epstein (1928–2006)

August 10, 2006 issue

Letter

Kem Knapp Sawyer

Barbara Epstein and ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’

September 21, 2006 issue

Susan Sontag (1933–2004)

February 10, 2005 issue

Funny as a Crutch

Nathanael West: Novels and Other Writings

selected and with notes by Sacvan Bercovitch

Nathanael West

by Robert Emmet Long

Nathanael West: A Collection of Critical Essays

edited by Jay Martin

November 6, 2003 issue

Among the Savages

The Golovlyov Family

by Shchedrin, translated from the Russian by Natalie Duddington, with an introduction by James Wood

Sketches of Provincial Life

by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with notes by Frederic Aston

The History of a Town

by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and edited by Susan Brownsberger

The Pompadours: A Satire on the Art of Government

by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with an introduction by David Magarshack

July 17, 2003 issue

On ‘The Unpossessed’

September 26, 2002 issue

Pilgrim’s Progress

Sinclair Lewis: Rebel from Main Street

by Richard Lingeman

Sinclair Lewis: An American Life

by Mark Schorer

Sinclair Lewis: Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry, Dodsworth

edited by Richard Lingeman

June 27, 2002 issue

Celebrities

Seabiscuit: An American Legend

by Laura Hillenbrand

Wild Ride: The Rise and Tragic Fall of Calumet Farm, Inc., America's Premier Racing Dynasty

by Ann Hagedorn Auerbach

July 19, 2001 issue

The Foster Father

May 17, 2001 issue

The Torrents of Wolfe

O Lost: A Story of the Buried Life

by Thomas Wolfe, text established by Arlyn Bruccoli and Matthew J. Bruccoli

The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe

edited by Richard S. Kennedy, edited by Paschal Reeves

Of Time and the River

by Thomas Wolfe

Look Homeward: A Life of Thomas Wolfe

by David Herbert Donald

The Web and the Rock

by Thomas Wolfe

You Can't Go Home Again

by Thomas Wolfe

Look Homeward, Angel

by Thomas Wolfe

To Loot My Life Clean: The Thomas Wolfe-Maxwell Perkins Correspondence

edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli, edited by Park Bucker

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November 16, 2000 issue

Melville in Love

June 15, 2000 issue

Far from Rome

March 23, 2000 issue

Head Over Heels

Monica's Story

by Andrew Morton

April 22, 1999 issue

Tru Confessions

Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career

by George Plimpton

January 15, 1998 issue

On Murray Kempton (1917–1997)

June 12, 1997 issue

Paradise Lost

American Pastoral

by Philip Roth

June 12, 1997 issue

In the Wasteland

The Last Thing He Wanted

by Joan Didion

October 31, 1996 issue

Family Values

In Contempt

by Christopher A. Darden

Reasonable Doubts: The O.J. Simpson Case and the Criminal Justice System

by Alan M. Dershowitz

The Search for Justice: A Defense Attorney's Brief on the O.J. Simpson Case

by Robert L. Shapiro

I Want to Tell You

by O.J. Simpson

June 6, 1996 issue