CONTENTS

OCCASIONAL PROSE

Obituary

Philip Rahv (1908-1973)

The “Place” of Nicola Chiaromonte (1905-1972)

Saying Good-bye to Hannah (1907-1975)

F. W. Dupee (1904-1979)

Report

On the Demo, London

Lectures

A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Emigr’s

Language and Politics

Living with Beautiful Things

Novel, Tale, and Romance

Reviews and Criticism

The Tolstoy Connection

On Rereading a Favorite Book

Acts of Love

Politics and the Novel

In the Family Way

“Democracy”

Prefaces and Postfaces

The American Revolution of Jean-François Revel

On F. W. Dupee

The Paradox of History

Interlude

La Traviata Retold

Nature Pieces

The Rake’s Progress

The Very Unforgettable Miss Brayton

THE WRITING ON THE WALL

General Macbeth

A Bolt from the Blue

J. D. Salinger’s Closed Circuit

Burroughs’ Naked Lunch

The Hue and Cry

On Madame Bovary

Crushing a Butterfly

Everybody’s Childhood

The Inventions of I. Compton-Burnett

More on Compton-Burnett

The Writing on the Wall

Hanging by a Thread

One Touch of Nature

IDEAS AND THE NOVEL

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A Biography of Mary McCarthy