Contents

I. Politics and the Social Scene

A Letter to the Editors of Politics

America the Beautiful: The Humanist in the Bathtub

Mlle. Gulliver en Amérique

No News, or, What Killed the Dog

The Contagion of Ideas

Artists in Uniform

Letter from Portugal

Mister Rodriguez of Lisbon

Naming Names: The Arthur Miller Case

The Vita Activa

Tyranny of the Orgasm

Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue

The Vassar Girl

III. Literature and the Arts

Recalled to Life, or, Charles Dickens at the Bar

Settling the Colonel’s Hash

An Academy of Risk

The Fast in Fiction

Characters in Fiction

The American Realist Playwrights

A Biography of Mary McCarthy