Mary McCarthy
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Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) was a novelist, essayist, and critic. Her political and social commentary, literary essays, and drama criticism appeared in magazines such as Partisan Review, The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Review of Books, and were collected in On the Contrary (1961), Mary McCarthy's Theatre Chronicles 1937-1962 (1963), The Writing on the Wall (1970), Ideas and the Novel (1980), and Occasional Prose (1985). Her novels include The Company She Keeps (1942), The Oasis (1949), The Groves of Academe (1952), A Charmed Life (1955), The Group (1963), Birds of America (1971), and Cannibals and Missionaries (1971). She was the author of three works of autobiography, Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957), How I Grew (1987), and the unfinished Intellectual Memoirs (1992), and two travel books about Italy, Venice Observed (1956) and The Stones of Florence (1959). Her essays on the Vietnam War were collected in The Seventeenth Degree (1974); her essays on Watergate were collected in The Mask of State (1974).
From the Review
April 27, 1989: A Memory of James Baldwin
December 22, 1988: Looking Back on 'Locos'
February 12, 1987: The Forgotten People
February 14, 1985: The Unresigned Man
December 8, 1983: In the Family Way
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October 27, 1983: On F. W. Dupee (1904 - 1979)
May 12, 1983: Novel, Tale, Romance
July 15, 1982: Watergate Over the Dam
November 5, 1981: The Rake's Progress
Green Thoughts: A Writer in the Garden by Eleanor Perényi
June 25, 1981: Acts of Love
If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino, translated by William Weaver
January 24, 1980: The Flying University (letter)
November 8, 1979: For Jim Farrell's Funeral
March 8, 1979: F. W. Dupee 1904–1979
January 20, 1977: The Polish Resistance
January 22, 1976: Saying Good-by to Hannah
June 12, 1975: A Special Supplement: The Meaning of Vietnam
February 20, 1975: On Pirandello's 'Clothing the Naked'
February 20, 1975: Nicola Chiaromonte and the Theatre
October 17, 1974: Postscript to Nixon
April 4, 1974: Watergate
March 7, 1974: On Colonel Risner
August 9, 1973: Lies
July 19, 1973: Watergate Notes
May 17, 1973: Fiction and America (letter)
February 8, 1973: A Letter (letter)
January 25, 1973: Ford's Better Idea (letter)
January 25, 1973: Sons of the Morning
The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam
March 9, 1972: A Guide to Exiles, Expatriates, and Internal Emigrés
September 2, 1971: The American Revolution of Jean-François Revel
October 23, 1969: Credit (letter)
July 31, 1969: Hanging by a Thread
Between Life and Death by Nathalie Sarraute
January 30, 1969: The Writing on the Wall
The Collected Essays, Journalism and Letters of George Orwell edited by Sonia Orwell, edited by Ian Angus
December 19, 1968: Letter from London: The Demo
October 24, 1968: Notes on the Election
July 11, 1968: North Vietnam: Language
June 20, 1968: North Vietnam: The Countryside
June 6, 1968: Hanoi II
May 23, 1968: Hanoi—1968
February 29, 1968: Ideology and Vietnam (letter)
January 18, 1968: On Withdrawing from Vietnam: An Exchange
November 9, 1967: Vietnam: Solutions
July 13, 1967: Regis Debray (letter)
June 29, 1967: Out of Limbo (letter)
May 18, 1967: Report from Vietnam III: Intellectuals
May 4, 1967: Report from Vietnam II: The Problems of Success
April 20, 1967: Report from Vietnam I. The Home Program
February 1, 1963: Déjeuner sur l'Herbe
The Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
From New York Review Books
 | War and the Iliad These essays do more than prove the permanent relevance of Homer's great poem. They analyze the logic of war itself, and explore how intoxicating violence defines the human condition. |
 | A Bolt from the Blue and Other Essays "Fierce, provocative, and lovely, a collection of small masterpieces, by one of the twentieth century's most dazzling minds." —Katie Roiphe |
Books by Mary McCarthy
Intellectual memoirs: New York, 1936-1938 (1992)
How I Grew (1987)
The Hounds of Summer and Other Stories: Mary McCarthy's Short Fiction (1981)
Ideas and the Novel (1980)
Cannibals and Missionaries (1979)
Can there be a Gothic literature? (1975)
The Mask of State: Watergate Portraits (1974)
Medina (1972)
Birds of America (1971)
Hanoi (1968)
The Group (1963)
On the Contrary (1961)
A Charmed Life (1955)
The Groves of Academe (1952)
Cast a Cold Eye (1950)
The Oasis (1949)
The Company She Keeps (1939)
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1937)