Volume 14, Number 11 · June 4, 1970
With It
By Philip Rahv
The Confusion of Realms
by Richard Gilman
Random House, 277 pp., $6.95
In most of the fourteen essays collected in this book Mr. Richard Gilman comes on as the compleat 'with it' critic, pushing to the limit his (perhaps) belated conversion to extreme trendiness. A literary journalist and theater reviewer in background, and lately a professor of drama at Yale, Mr. Gilman has shown through the years an almost immodest taste for conversions; and at present he is evidently straining at the leash to launch himself into the role of a leading exponent of the New—of the New at all costs at that—and as a Now prophet of the arts. Thus craving as he does optimal participation in the cult of Now, inevitably for him not ripeness but timeliness is all.
Review, 3097 words
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