Archibald MacLeish and the word
Van Wyck Brooks's second phase
The boys in the back room: James M. Cain ; John O'Hara ; William Saroyan ; Hans Otto Storm ; John Steinbeck ; Facing the Pacific
The antrobuses and the earwickers
Alexander Woollcott of the phalanx
The poetry of Angelica Balabanoff
Mr. Joseph E. Davies as a stylist
Thoughts on being bibliographed
Through the embassy window: Harold Nicolson
Kay Boyle and the Saturday Evening Post
The life and times of John Barrymore
"Never apologize, never explain": the art of Evelyn Waugh
John Mulholland and the art of illusion
What became of Louis Bromfield
J. Dover Wilson on Falstaff
A toast and a tear for Dorothy Parker
A treatise on tales of horror
A guide to Finnegans wake
A long talk about Jane Austen
"You can't do this to me!" shrilled Celia
Aldous Huxley in the world beyond time
Vladimir Nabokov on Gogol
A picture to hang in the library: Brooks's Age of Irving
Why do people read detective stories?
Bernard Shaw on the training of a statesman
Leonid Leonov: the sophistication of a formula
Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?
"Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!"
Glenway Wescott's war work
A cry from the unquiet grave
Tales of the marvellous and the ridiculous
Thackeray's letters: a Victorian document
Splendors and miseries of Evelyn Waugh
George Saintsbury's centenary
The apotheosis of Somerset Maugham
William Saroyan and his darling old Providence
Oscar Wilde: "One must always seek what is most tragic"
George Grosz in the United States
An old friend of the family: Thackeray
George Saintsbury: gourmet and glutton
Books of etiquette and Emily Post
A dissenting opinion on Kafka
Jean-Paul Sartre: the novelist and the existentialist
The musical glasses of Peacock
Edith Wharton: a memoir by an English friend
The sanctity of Baudelaire
Van Wyck Brooks on the Civil War period
An analysis of Max Beerbohm
The original of Tolstoy's Natasha
"The most unhappy man on Earth"
William Faulkner's reply to the civil-rights program
In memory of Octave Mirbeau
A revival of Ronald Firbank
Paul Rosenfeld: three phases.
